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I don't mean better for you or me but better in general. Do you believe our species will ever reach some form of enlightenment or will we destroy ourselves?

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[โ€“] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Do you believe our species will ever reach some form of enlightenment"

If there is anything history has taught me is that we repeat the same basic behavior over and over and have done so as far back as we can see. We are essentially very intelligent monkeys, obsessed with social status, manipulation, altruism and cooperation mixed with hostility and exploitation. I think the basic sociology of humans is baked into our DNA and the very nature of animal life. People have always imagined they can create some utopia on earth but it always ends up a failure because of the very nature of man and the impossibility of even defining a utopia for everyone.

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

The basic DNA of humans is that our ideas form from our Material Conditions, and the driver of this is the mode of production.

What "Utopias" are you referring to, here? The old, Utopian socialist of Owen's kind, or the modern, Marxist form of Socialism (which rejects the term "utopian")?