Arrivalism in questionable anticipation of future remedial catharsis

Time for a Remedial Global Nuclear War? (Part #5)

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Responding to the problematic challenges of "Big Lies" -- and the seemingly unresolvable global issues in practice -- can be avoided by optimistic anticipation of future events. These can be understood as engendering the coherence which eludes viable global governance at this time. These contrast with efforts to achieve this by Promoting a Singular Global Threat (2002), as in the case of terrorism, climate change, or recurrent pandemic.

Whether framed positively or negatively, reframing the urgency of present day preoccupations, the variety of singularities recognized by some as a future focus are discussed separately (Emerging Memetic Singularity in the Global Knowledge Society, 2009). These were clustered as follows:

Of particular interest, as reviewed, there are the End times scenarios. In contrast to any emphases on new beginning through transcendence of some kind, different flavours of anticipated singularity are either deplored in isolation (as with the items of the checklist above) or associated with understandings of "end times" (possibly as precursor to such beginnings). The following raise the interesting question as to the manner in which the metasystem transition associated with some form of singularity (especially the technological) would be capable of "recognizing" content that is more subjective than objective, or more qualitative than quantitative. The scenarios discussed are clustered as follows:

In addition to the extensive exploration of a saviour, as a primary characteristic of eschatological scenarios, is the speculative exploration of the anticipated contact with extraterrestrials (Anticipation of Judicial Inquisition of Humans by Extraterrestrials, 2020; Sensing Epiterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), 2013).

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