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To: jbe who wrote (30236)	6/28/1999 12:46:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) of 71178

>Secondly, "mythologies" have little to do with "morality"; they are ways in which we explain the cosmos to ourselves.< They might not be at the heart of morality, but they are imho the engines for something as important. A concept of self and society - who we are, where we are going. In the 50s and 60s we had a mythos of Progress whose endpoint was a Raygun Gothic technopolis - the kind with sculpted domes on very slender stalks and free-floating rings around stuff. The priest of this new mythos was the Rocket Scientist. Being an engineer at heart, I embraced this pretty uncritically until we ran headfirst into a new, more somber mythos that is still gathering steam. The "deep ecology" mythos that depicts Man as a predator, as fallen out of Gaia's homeostasis. Global warming, the rainforests, the sin of cheeseburger. It is an essentially self-loathing Weltanschauung that has osteoporotic Moonwalkers dying unsung without a credible spacecraft in current development. We reached for the stars - and were distracted by an itch in our collective underwear. Tragic.

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