Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it, to channel our destiny in humane directions, and to try to ease the trauma of transition. Alongside it we will develop multiple metaphors, alternative of evidence, new logics, catastrophe theories, and new tribal ways to seperate our useful fictions and archetypes from useless ones. The shapes of this civilization will be determinded by population and resource trends, by military factors, by value changes, by behavioural speculations in fields of consciousness, by changes in family structures, by global political shifts, by awakened individual utopian aspirations, by accelerated cultural paradigms and not by technologies alone. This will mean designing new institutions for controlling our technological leaps into a future. It will mean replacing obsolete political, economic, territorial, and ecological structures.
Small elites can no longer make major technological, ecological, or economical decisions.
Clusters of individuals with integrated extended family structures must participate and calibrate what stetches out before them in a neo-pagan assimilation of all before, now and to be.