The #FermiParadox goes like this:

1. Among billions of #stars intelligent life capable of interstellar travel should have evolved, given the human rate of evolution, but,
2. There is no evidence of this fact. Why?

Some, speculate that it is the #nature of intelligent life to #destroy itself.

For example, based on #anthropologic studies, Adam Frank posited that climate change induced by "#energy intensive" civilizations may prevent #sustainability within such #civilizations, thus explaining the #paradoxical lack of #evidence for #intelligent #extraterrestrial #life.

In a word, #ClimateChange.

I'll add, the #population required to support sufficiently #advanced #technologies are such that they effectively create a state of #techno #anarchy, #ungovernable to any common #purpose but selfish #innovation and #profit #motive.

This, is #state #humankind currently finds itself. An #experiment, that will end with a whimper in #ironic confirmation of the #Fermi #paradox.

Have #fun breaking the #news to your #children.

https://tomdispatch.com/savage-capitalism/

The meeting of Eastern and Western civilizations over the past half century has shown both sides that there can be contrasting ways of thinking and functioning in the world that are also viable.

There have been sporadic East-West encounters for ages, such as through the Silk Road, but only in our time have the #civilizations had to come to grips with each other's #culture. There has been mutual influence, even while fundamental aspects of the contrasting #cultures have not yet been bridged.

"East-West Cultural Differences in Basic Life Stance" was a deep dive that is recently surging in interest again, at https://www.academia.edu/44784139

@religidons @religion @histodons @philosophy @japodons
#InterculturalCommunication #Asia #Japan #Asianists #Philosophy #Religion #Buddhism

You may not realize it, but chances are you've already partaken in the ancient #rituals of libation by pouring one out for the homies.

While these alcohol rituals may sound wasteful, the act of pouring one out — whether you do it for the Devil, your homies, or Dionysus — is an ancient tradition called #libation that stretches back to early #civilizations like ancient Egypt.

https://www.alittlebithuman.com/pouring-one-out-is-libation-an-ancient-tradition/?fbclid=IwAR0_2M4nYgPktkSyhxnRAoILCDBlw1tAJ1Whf12Z5nyRPW7-LZZWT2urSEk

Were there advanced human #civilizations that existed, but fell, before ours? #Netflix’s “most dangerous show” says so

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-12-27-advanced-human-civilizations-netflix-ancient-apocalypse-show.html

Scientists in 2020 are not–as readers of mid 20th century science fiction might have hoped–encountering alien #Civilizations in distant star systems. But, they are encountering radically different forms of #Society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely different ways. [...] What is the purpose of all this new #Knowledge, if not to reshape our conceptions of who we are and what we might yet become?
–The Dawn of Everything

“Judging by the #history of #life on #Earth and the possible futures we think we can see coming, it is indeed quite possible that most, or effectively all, #civilizations in the #universe are comprised of #machine #intelligences,” says #astrobiologist #DavidGrinspoon.

https://dailygalaxy.com/2022/11/alien-habitats-likely-abodes-of-advanced-ai-machine-life-weekend-feature/

What If #Humanity Is Among The First #Spacefaring #Civilizations?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTrFAY3LUNw&ab_channel=PBSSpaceTime

#PBS #SpaceTime #PBSSpaceTime #Aliens #AlienCivilisations #Astrophysics #MattODowd #SpacefaringCivilisations #FermiParadox

17 Out-Of-Place Artifacts That Suggest High-Tech Civilizations Existed Thousands (Or Millions) Of Years Ago
#Artifacts #HighTech #Civilizations #YearsAgo
https://thesecondnews.com/17-out-of-place-artifacts-that-suggest-high-tech-civilizations-existed-thousands-or-millions-of-years-ago/

#INTERNATIONAL_TECH_NEWS | #BIG_GOV

Putin says the West has already lost its confrontation with Russia, and an irreversible breakdown of the U.S.-led liberal order is underway.

~Nor on #hypocritical #double_standards, but on the basis of #INTERNATIONAL_LAW and the #genuine_sovereignty of #peoples and #civilizations.~

https://www.facebook.com/PutinDirect/videos/438338494617811/

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