What aspects of our world and culture will be seen as primitive and barbaric by future people?
I believe that their is a pendulum effect in society as it moves forward. At times things go to far in one direction and then swing back to the other direction. Depending on which part of the future, you are referring to, much of what we do will be considered primitive and barbaric. Atheists and theists will separate at some point. As we move into space, more atheists will be the colonizers of space and religion off world will become a non-issue. The religious will remain to occupy this planet and fight out their minor and major wars over the foolishness that can be found on the news on any given day. Both religion and philosophy will be replaced as our collective intelligence grows over hundreds and thousands of years.
A complete paradigm shift or a revolution of thought is called for if our current notion of barbarism and primitiveness is to change. This is all too common for us to denounce exploitation, dictatorship, wars, abuse of human rights, and monopoly of physical resources. But could this be possible that the entire mindset is changed in some way? Presently, we see things, as in pro western political traditions, democracy as an ideal, or near ideal, system of government, that is commonly based upon the election into power of people who could best represent their masses. This means to say that like people like the one who rule them. It is said that democracy is the system wherewith heads are counted and not weighed for their individual worth. There are systems of government as for instance Plato’s concept of elitism, but by far democracy is what we have and any autocratic government, however by the best minds, is considered bad as against democratic tradition. May be in the future democracy w
