On Aug 17, 1:48 am, "Chris.B" <chri...@mail.dk> wrote:

A quiet pastoral existence might
seem infinitely preferable to the survivors of repeated global plagues
or wars. Technology might even be seen as threatening and supressed
over many millenia. An anti-technology superstition might easily arise
in the guise of religion from a single charismatic figure. Our
universe might be full to the brim with happy, post-technological
peasants. None of whom gives a jot about saving us from
ourselves.

There is a problem with that.

Birth control pills are technology.

In order for a post-technological Earth to actually be happy and
stable, instead of having continued cycles of population growth
followed by wars and plagues, it would have to have a dominant culture
that could cope with the Earth's finiteness.

One path to this is the one taken by the people of Polynesia. Such
wonderful and happy people they are, living in a tropical paradise,
because *their* religion isn't at war with sex, but accepts it as
beautiful and natural.

Along with infanticide.

Since the pagan gods of old to which babies were sacrificed seem to be
on the decline, a non-technological future appears likely to be ruled
by the more demanding gods of the early agricultural civilizations,
which encourage breeding and large-group solidarity.

If we are to escape from war, it shall be by climbing the Kardashev
ladder, not neglecting it.

John Savard