Class given at Sheltering Branch Baha'i School, Camp Wooten, Washington, July 2019.
Contents:
I. What lies ahead for humanity? Global civilization and stages in collective development
II. Humanity adrift: The "anchorless present" and the collapse of the axial world view (3:15)
III. Modern responses: attempts to recover an anchored present
1. Denial of the modern: religious conservatives and reactionaries (9:48)
2. Existentialism: create your own meaning (12:05)
3. The "secular right": anchored in the evolutionary past (13:05)
4. The political "left": group/tribal identity as anchor (15:14)
5. The political "center": the end of history, liberal democracy and free markets (16:14)
IV. Two governing constraints on a different kind of future (20:05)
1. Scarcity (to be addressed by technology)
2. Self-interest (to be addressed by a spiritual revolution)
V. Economy and politics of the future (24:45)
1. An economy of "voluntary sharing"
2. "Houses of Justice": Non-partisan consultative democracy
VI. Q&A (29:50)
- The blockchain revolution and Ethereum (45:36)
Links to all talks in the series:
Day 1: History. [ Ссылка ]
Day 2: Physics. [ Ссылка ]
Day 3: Metaphysics. [ Ссылка ]
Day 4: The individual. [ Ссылка ]
Day 5: The collective. [ Ссылка ]
