Grames Posted January 19, 2011 Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 Here's a minute long clip with Spielberg talking over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotu Matua Posted January 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2011 Nowadays, in this world, very smart and physically strong people coexist with retarded, physically weak people. Nobel-Prize winners and Olympic gold-medal athletes coexist with people with, say, Down's syndrome. How do Nobel Prize winners and Olympic gold-medal athletes tend to treat retarded or diseased people? Do they tend to mistreat them? Do they violate their rights? Sci-fi literature is used to present our species, in its current condition, as much more gentle, benevolent and sensitive than any post-human or trans-human being. This is equivalent to presenting Neardenthal men as more gentle, benevolent or sensitive than modern Americans. Furthermore, the process of evolution from hominid pre-human species to fully human Homo sapiens was blind, while the evolution of our species from now on will be directed by reason. If blind, non-rational evolution produced such a precious, great, beautiful thing as the human mind, imagine what this precious, great, beautiful mind could create in turn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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