Absolutely brilliant article. Like several of your posts, I will be thinking about this for quite some time. I can relate to all groups and found thus to be well thought out and intriguing. Personally, I would rename the Cousins, to "Xenia"- the Greek concept of hospitality to strangers. To me, fundamentally, the Masons are more like the last group, the non hive group. FreeMasons include people of all faiths and creeds around the world. Such as Voltaire, as mentiined, who attended the same Masonic Lodge in France with Benjamin Franklin. Some speculate that Francis Bacon started Speculative Masonry as we know it now a days.
I'd never heard of that Greek concept, I love it! I think freemasons are different in history than they are in the future, or at least that's the way Palmer portrays it! The revival takes on an authoritarian vibe.
The whole Xenia (hospitality to foriein/stangers) is central to Homer's Odyssey. Ultimately it leads to the Trojan war and the homecoming (Oikos) of Odysseus.
With many of the amazing perspectives you point out, human nature seems to ruin it, no matter what hive unit. I really liked your idea of all religion being singular- everyone has their own viewpoints. Some geneticist say the "religion gene" is part of the human psyche (vesicular monoamine transporter). The question I would like to ask you, If bad human nature could be altered by gene editing, would you be in favor or opposition? Is this the ultimate authoritarian move, or liberation?
If human nature ruins it, it also betters it. So it’s hard for me to say human nature is the problem when it’s also the solution. And every single person can do both—I’m not sure you could isolate it to a removable thing! I think the show The Good Place does a good job of illustrating this, as well as the problem of unintended consequences. All we can do is continually try to fix things, and then fix the unintended consequences from those things, forever!
It would be far easier to pass a law that says, "If you send soldiers out to an undeclared war, you will be pulled from congress and will join them on the front line." That would stop the eternal wars.
“Why would anyone pledge allegiance to the patch of dirt they were born on?”
As someone who currently lives a life of constant travel and am not pledged or stationed anywhere for long periods of time, I loved reading this. It’s exactly the future and lifestyle I tell my friends about. As travel and moving around becomes easier, this is inevitably where most of the world is headed.
Absolutely brilliant article. Like several of your posts, I will be thinking about this for quite some time. I can relate to all groups and found thus to be well thought out and intriguing. Personally, I would rename the Cousins, to "Xenia"- the Greek concept of hospitality to strangers. To me, fundamentally, the Masons are more like the last group, the non hive group. FreeMasons include people of all faiths and creeds around the world. Such as Voltaire, as mentiined, who attended the same Masonic Lodge in France with Benjamin Franklin. Some speculate that Francis Bacon started Speculative Masonry as we know it now a days.
I'd never heard of that Greek concept, I love it! I think freemasons are different in history than they are in the future, or at least that's the way Palmer portrays it! The revival takes on an authoritarian vibe.
The whole Xenia (hospitality to foriein/stangers) is central to Homer's Odyssey. Ultimately it leads to the Trojan war and the homecoming (Oikos) of Odysseus.
With many of the amazing perspectives you point out, human nature seems to ruin it, no matter what hive unit. I really liked your idea of all religion being singular- everyone has their own viewpoints. Some geneticist say the "religion gene" is part of the human psyche (vesicular monoamine transporter). The question I would like to ask you, If bad human nature could be altered by gene editing, would you be in favor or opposition? Is this the ultimate authoritarian move, or liberation?
If human nature ruins it, it also betters it. So it’s hard for me to say human nature is the problem when it’s also the solution. And every single person can do both—I’m not sure you could isolate it to a removable thing! I think the show The Good Place does a good job of illustrating this, as well as the problem of unintended consequences. All we can do is continually try to fix things, and then fix the unintended consequences from those things, forever!
It would be far easier to pass a law that says, "If you send soldiers out to an undeclared war, you will be pulled from congress and will join them on the front line." That would stop the eternal wars.
Not a bad idea actually.
There does seems to be a lot of desktop war hawks lately.
“Why would anyone pledge allegiance to the patch of dirt they were born on?”
As someone who currently lives a life of constant travel and am not pledged or stationed anywhere for long periods of time, I loved reading this. It’s exactly the future and lifestyle I tell my friends about. As travel and moving around becomes easier, this is inevitably where most of the world is headed.
Right, in a global world, who should get our allegience? The nation that earns it!
Exactly!
The nation based on our values!