/sci/ - Science & Math

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What's implicit in peak wisdom literature like that of Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Goethe, which is that on the level of species as well, intellect always undoes the conditions and processes that gave rise to it in the first place, such that at best, and very rarely, they slowly fade away into a kind of aesthetic twilight of satiety soon after science and technology adequate for creature comforts not previously attainable are generally brought about, but far more usually along any of the more precipitate routes of self-induced disaster that are already evidently unfolding here, but tiresome to re-hash before any audience that hasn't yet lived long enough and well enough to accept how appalling that evidence is. That last part of it is of course understandable. On the other hand there is something extra pathetic about the conviction that one can have literally everything, coupled with a sterility of imagination about what that is, or could become in the ordinary course of development.