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Will you make history? Will history make you?
By
Harry J. Bentham
When understanding things to come, one must first master the past. Will you make history? Maybe history is just too big, too impersonal, too unwieldy, to be made by you at all. Rather, history has made you. In my view, the landscape of history is like a mountain. Although the origins of life and humanity are disparate, geographically scattered,…
Human nation under one language… the future?
By
Harry J. Bentham
A borderless world, a human nation, a global patria*, a world government. These terms will attract you either fervent supporters or legions of enemies, but they are part of the steamroller of history. There is an inevitability to them. Zoltan Istvan predicts, in an essay I recently reviewed, that non-invasive “brainwave headsets” could allow people…
Brexit would be bad, but is a useful specter
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Harry J. Bentham
A Brexit would be bad for science and welfare – two important pillars of modernity in Britain. It would be a historic step back. Much of the funding towards welfare originates in the European Union, meaning that the rug would be pulled from under the feet of many people living today with the blessing of Britain’s welfare…
The space case to prevent human extinction
By
Harry J. Bentham
Human extinction. If it occurred, would it matter? This is not some depressed remark I am making. It is my way of questioning the mandate of a think tank like the Lifeboat Foundation, whose books I have been reviewing but the reviews have yet to be published. We have some influential figures, writers and even Stephen…
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