Q
NEW
TECHNOLOGICAL REALITIES
AND THE NEW HUMAN EXPERIENCES,
SO THEY HAD RELEVANT ANSWERS TO THE NEW PROBLEMS
OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, AS WELL AS ORIGINAL IDEAS ABOUT HOW
TO BENEFIT FROM THE UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITIES? The socialists
created a brave new religion for a brave new world! They promised salvation through
technology and economics, thus establishing the first techno-religion in human history,
thus changing the foundations of ideological discourse?!! Before Marx, people defined and
decided themselves according to their views about 'G D', not about production methods? [Gen 4:1/16]
Since Marx, questions of technology & economic structure became again far more important & divisive
than debates about the soul & the afterlife! In the second half of the 20th century humankind almost obliterated
itself in an argument about production methods? Even the harshest critics of Marx and Lenin adopted their
basic attitude towards history and society, and began thinking much more carefully about technology and
production than about 'G d and heaven'!? In the mid-19th century few people were as perceptive as Marx,
hence only a few countries underwent rapid industrialization. These few countries conquered the world......
Most societies failed to understand what was happening, and therefore missed the train of progress.........
Dayananda's India and the Mahdi's Sudan remained far more occupied with God than with steam engines,
hence they were occupied & exploited by industrial Britain: only in the last few years has India managed
to make significant progress in closing the economic and geopolitical gap separating it from Britain.
Sudan is still struggling far behind! Vandaar wellicht ook nog steeds de huidige polarisering
tussen 'oud rechts' en het "Nieuwe Links": ISIS, SGP, BREXIT, PUTIN, TRUMP, ERDOGAN, ASSAD,
PVV/FDP e.d. tegen bijvoorbeeld GroenLinks/D66! Onderdrukking, simplificatie, nationalisme,
fanatisme, populisme, fascisme, genocide, opportunisme
tegen vooruitgang, universalisme, progressie,
openheid, creativiteit, pacifisme,
klimaatverandering &
eerlijkheid?