[extropy-chat] SOC: Advanced society = advanced morality?

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Rafal for posting this exchange.  In addition to the
> insightful comments on intellectual property, I'm encouraged to
> find another thoughful voice in support of the idea that a more
> advanced society would naturally tend to be more moral.

This is an intriguing point. I'll note Neal Stephenson's similar
commentary by characters in The Diamond Age, where, in light of
breathtaking avancements in technology, at least some part of the
population sought social stability by instituting neo-victorian social
mores.
This might also be reflected in the forces in 19th century Britain
which brought about the original Victorian Age. You had the first real
era of rapid growth and advancement compared to prior ages, both in
technology and economics, which triggered at first an age of moral
degradation and excess which was backlashed by the Victorians.
It might also explain how American political forces seem divided
between those preferring social stability and economic dynamism vs
those seeking economic stability and social dynamism.
Do people have to have some area which is anchored in stability, even
stasis? Do they need this to retain some sort of grip on the world and
their lives?

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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
Sado-Mikeyism: http://mikeysoft.zblogger.com

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