Re:live long and prosper (Score 1)

One good thing about experiance as time goes on is that people no matter how conservative start to lose their desire for war and seek other means of conflict resolution with more vigor. Is this assumption really warranted? To quote Phil Ochs, "it's always the old who lead us to the war, always the young to fall." However, this new culture would probably be world-encompassing and if I might be so bold I would venture to guess it would bring mankind closer together in the long run. Perhaps you want this, but I'm not sure everyone else will. Do they have a choice? You may be happy to impose this emerging world culture on everyone else, but I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of pushing my aesthetic, political, or economic sensibilities onto others. Would you like to see your culture--your economic, political, kinship, etc. systems--destroyed or coopted by another group simply because that group had the arrogance to believe in the superiority of its way of life and the power to do whatever it liked to you? Also, consider the cultures you mention: Japan, China, "Europe" (meaning...?). Highly formalized, traditional, stagnant, heirarchical... this doesn't get me jumping with excitement. Perhaps we can think of a better alternative to our empty plastic culture than reviving the spirit of rigid, *dead* empires.