RE: Why It's Time For Conspiracy Theorist To Quit Fearing Brain Microchip Implants, Grow The F^ck Up, And Get To Work Contributing To Mankind's Evolution...
Sure, they believed what they were doing was "good" and "right" (as did Hitler -- Woot! Godwin's law achieved!) but it was still technically a conspiracy based on the historical facts we have:
con·spir·a·cy
noun
a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
Granted, their goal was to make it lawful, which they succeeded in, despite the previous failures of the First Bank of the United States and the Second Bank of the United States.
That said, I completely agree with this:
far less dramatic than our sensationalistic cultures of the 20th century have trained our minds to think like
Evolution is always moving forward. It's not directed or controlled, it just is. Technology, even all the way back to the invention of cooking, is what makes us human. We're not going to escape that anytime soon.
At one point, some argue, rape was an evolutionary strategy. That doesn't make it right. I think we can acknowledge the failures of the past even if those failures, as we see them today, brought us to where we are. The hope for the future, I think, is collectively improving our epistemology so we can accurately know what is in order to make better decisions about what we want to be.
Based on my understanding of human psychology, biology, and neuroscience, I think what most of us want to be is free.
Thanks again for a great discussion.
lol, oh man... at first, all I saw of this in the replies page was the "Sure, they believed what they were doing was "good" and "right" (as did Hitler -- Woot!..." and was getting prepared to write,
"ah, good ol' first world privileges - so easily thinking every person's decision at any point in time was so clearly black-or-white..."
and then, of course, I saw the rest of this. humbled.
your argumentative skills are on-point.
I appreciate your breakdown of the conspiracy definition, going the extra length to clarify the viewpoint.
indeed, most of us likely deeply desire freedom. I suppose it takes time to achieve, and experience in the contrast to summon the motivation to take matters into one's own hands to seize that freedom.
t'is quite the ride, all this evolution.
and t'is quite an interesting time, that we're probably closer to that freedom than ever before...
"I think what most of us want to be is free."
I concur.