If you believe (as Wei says) that it will be known as “The Long Correction”, then it sounds Orwellian (and similar to “correctional facility”) and I currently believe is a non-starter.
It… is going to be a grand mission that humanity goes on together? I don’t get the idea of calling grand & important things unimportant names when they are in fact grand & important. Let us not call our era the age of reason, or the enlightenment, for that is too grand; let us call it the age of getting-slightly-better. I think it is good to give grand projects appropriately grand names.
Let us not call our era the age of reason, or the enlightenment, for that is too grand; let us call it the age of getting-slightly-better.
The Long Self-Correction seems appropriately grand to me. :) Age of Reason and the Enlightenment seem to be instances of the very thing I criticize in the OP, “badly calibrated about our philosophical and strategic competence”. Have you tried reading some of the philosophy from those times?
If you believe (as Wei says) that it will be known as “The Long Correction”, then it sounds Orwellian (and similar to “correctional facility”) and I currently believe is a non-starter.
It… is going to be a grand mission that humanity goes on together? I don’t get the idea of calling grand & important things unimportant names when they are in fact grand & important. Let us not call our era the age of reason, or the enlightenment, for that is too grand; let us call it the age of getting-slightly-better. I think it is good to give grand projects appropriately grand names.
The Long Self-Correction seems appropriately grand to me. :) Age of Reason and the Enlightenment seem to be instances of the very thing I criticize in the OP, “badly calibrated about our philosophical and strategic competence”. Have you tried reading some of the philosophy from those times?