The only purpose of civilization is space travel or planetary defense

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#1

What is the purpose of civilization beyond the fashions of pleasure and convenience? Most people would look at a person asking the question with a disdain in their face for the simple matter is that there isn’t any real purpose to society beyond those factors.

Most simple people would even state survival as a purpose which is humorous on the account that people can survive well without society and authority.

The way I see it there are only two reasons why society exists presently and that being space travel or planetary defense.

The irony of space travel and planetary defense is that in the very beginning of humanity’s creation we had no knowledge of space travel or the perils in space that poses a threat to our planet yet add that with the understanding that beyond those two subjects there really is no inherent necessity of civilization one then has a great chimerical insanity in understanding the very beginning and foundation of civilization.

Even more interesting when you get into conversations with those trans humanists with their subjective determinism they insist that society exists so that we can secure a future of some fickle utopianism for space exploration and planetary defense.

Ask a trans humanist about living a life of utopia presently and they will laugh or atleast give you some comment that it can’t happen with all of us just tolerating present degradation for the future of others.

I guess all of us in society presently should just become martyrs in the future of others who are not even born. What sheer hypocrisy.

It seems we should just die for the sheer nobility of others in the future as martyrdom.

( One wonders why I am a nihilist.)

( Cancel that. Does one really have to wonder? :D)

#2

I don’t see space travel or planetary defense as any sort of purpose. Purpose implies intent. And while there may be factions within the civ that intend on those things, the bulk of the machine is concerned with merely growing. The civ must grow, or it dies. It is constantly devouring the indigenous peoples as well as other species every day because it must grow. If the civ ever were to achieve space travel or planetary defense, it would only be in order to grow more and protect what it had already devoured (respectively).

See one of Anthropik’s Thirty Theses for more: Civilization must always grow.

#3

[quote=“WildeRix, post:2, topic:245”]I don’t see space travel or planetary defense as any sort of purpose. Purpose implies intent. And while there may be factions within the civ that intend on those things, the bulk of the machine is concerned with merely growing. The civ must grow, or it dies. It is constantly devouring the indigenous peoples as well as other species every day because it must grow. If the civ ever were to achieve space travel or planetary defense, it would only be in order to grow more and protect what it had already devoured (respectively).

See one of Anthropik’s Thirty Theses for more: Civilization must always grow.[/quote]

That’s true.

Perhaps I can say that is the only sensible function it is trying put into motion. I understand your assesment against the word purpose comparing civilization, maybe I should of used the term “reason” instead but even with that those words are almost used interchangeably.

( I will read the link.)