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[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by charles brough

As you say, the need is already here---even 50 years ago---but it is still not a part of popular acceptance or belief. It will not and has not sprung up by itself. It needs to be apart of whole world-view and way of thinking. The old indifference survives because our secular belief system is so fragile that it cannot offend or contradict the basic religion, Christianity, the foundation of our ancient society. For example, it is because of Christian Genesis belief in multiplying and populating the earth that one does not hear anything about over-population being the cause of our environmental and pollution problems. It is also why we are in danger of having birth control and abortion made illegal.

You mentioned a movement. What we need is a movement that is "the wave of the future," one that is based on a scientific understanding, an ideology that is advanced and sets the colonizing of space as its major goal. I have been working on just that project for a long time. New such belief systems have arisen in the past and changed the world. It will have to happen again. We will then need to think in a different way than today.

Agreed, we need a new belief system but sadly any new belief system would be just as vigorously opposed as current belief system oppose each other now. Humanity shows no sign of becoming more rational any time soon . I would even go as far as to to say that irrationality seems to be in the increase.