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More than Guessing
Remote Viewing the Future
Anyone can predict doom and gloom. It is so easy to predict pessimism, that if you’re predicting bad things, you’re probably taking the easy, safe bets. We get old. Things don’t work as well as they used to. Our human brain is built for pessimism and looking for flaws or oddities, and necessarily so- as noting a bit of orange lurking in green might have made a difference in not getting eaten by a tiger. We can also see evolutions of things in our head. Science fiction, for example, is human extrapolation of an evolution of technology and humans society interfacing with that. With the exception of the original Star Trek, most sci-fi look at the future were dystopian. But if the future was not bleak, would you be more invested in living better now?
In addition to being pessimistic about the future, we also, frequently, misremember the past, making it more optimistic than it really was. The Way We Never Were, Stephanie Coontz is a great reminder of some of the more unpleasant realities we skipped over on our race to the future.
Seeing, imagining, or predicting a better tomorrow is not optimism. Somewhere between optimism and pessimism is a reality we need to face. Daydreaming of a six pack and strengths is not likely to lead to muscle tone. It takes some work. Whether it’s from the individual perspective or societal perspective, we have some work cut out.
We also have to recognize where are. There are some truly awful things to contend with. We also have more ‘good,’ in terms of material comforts, foods, and medicines than most people have enjoyed in at least the last 6,000 years of recorded history. More people today live better than kings of yesterday, and we forget how fortunate we are because we’re still using the old brain of comparing ourselves to others.
We, humanity, are on the verge of seeing more change now, not like forty or fifty years out, not a life time away, but now, than at any other time in our recorded history. I want to emphasize ‘recorded’ history. It is the opinion of this author, there was time before when humanity was equally advanced, or differently advanced, whether that civilization was Atlantean or the people who built the pyramids, and they…
