The supercomfort society is a kind of paradise on Earth, which is available in certain countries to the majority of people. We already built the paradise in this life, precisely because we were not willing to wait for death. The result is that our society will die of infantile boredom, lack of reproduction, and unwillingness to put any efforts into anything. This is a technical problem: the biological evolution has not prepared humans for supercomfort.
So, we will die out, and we will find that the heavens are closed due to a technical problem.
По моему, довольно ясно, что люди построили комфортное существование здесь потому, что не очень верят в загробную жизнь. Хотя многие говорят, что верят, все их действия говорят об обратном.
I would say it's the other way around: people built up technology and comfortable life simply because they could, driven by a natural desire for comfort, safety, and for avoiding natural dangers. As a result, people stopped worrying and believing in the afterlife. In supercomfort societies, people are too relaxed to discuss their philosophy seriously.
The symptoms for "supercomfort society" I found so far:
- people start to emphasize being "laid back" or "relaxed about life" or "not taking yourself too seriously" as a virtue; seriousness, pathos, etc. are reserved for distant political causes only, never for personal life - people start smiling on official photographs, serious faces are gone; even though most photographs in the past showed serious faces, publishers start selecting past photos with smiling faces for today's consumption - people start talking about being happy or feeling happiness as a valid life goal (as far as 1950, a European politician - I think it was de Gaulle - answered the question "are you a happy man" by saying "don't take me for a fool")
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Date: 2017-10-20 09:28 pm (UTC)So, we will die out, and we will find that the heavens are closed due to a technical problem.
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Date: 2017-10-21 02:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-10-21 06:54 am (UTC)The symptoms for "supercomfort society" I found so far:
- people start to emphasize being "laid back" or "relaxed about life" or "not taking yourself too seriously" as a virtue; seriousness, pathos, etc. are reserved for distant political causes only, never for personal life
- people start smiling on official photographs, serious faces are gone; even though most photographs in the past showed serious faces, publishers start selecting past photos with smiling faces for today's consumption
- people start talking about being happy or feeling happiness as a valid life goal (as far as 1950, a European politician - I think it was de Gaulle - answered the question "are you a happy man" by saying "don't take me for a fool")
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Date: 2017-10-21 02:10 am (UTC)