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agapanthus, Hegel did believe in human free will, otherwise competing ideologies wouldn't appear. He saw free will a little like an animal being able to choose it's own genetic adaptions before being thrown into the threshing machine of natural selection.
Incidentally, I saw a picture when I was a kid of what evolutionary scientists thought a human would look like in two-hundred years time: impossibly obese, sense organs almost whithered away from lack of use except for two massive eyes (a little like a 'Grey' alien), fingers adapted for keyboards and remotes... I can only speculate on what it's mind would be like, probably filled up with advertising jingles and useless trivia. What Hegel, dreaming of a strong and smart master race, couldn't have concieved is that it's NOT the 'strongest' ideology or behaviour that will be the end of history, but a state of apathy that absolutely cannot be escaped, and from which change is impossible.
By and by, aren't the postees in this forum thinking in purely Western terms (as in there being a beginning and end to things, no infinity) when Eastern and esoteric religions would hold that creation and destruction aren't mutually exclusive but part of a cycle.
Anyway, all this writing is burning precious calories and I need to go tuck into a kilo bag of sugar before eight hours of TeeVee, meaningless sex and low-key drug use. C'est la vie... |
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