Friday, April 27, 2012

Star Trek - The Fallacy.

Last night I watched an old Star Trek episode and it struck me very hard how spurious is the main premise of that series.
There is an inbuilt belief in 'the fact' that mankind will have moved forward over the coming few hundred years. Technologically of course, that would be inevitable.
But will Man really have banished: greed, war, want, crime and even - simple pettiness?
Of course - that is absurd, as are all optimistic views of mankind as a species. It goes against Scriptural teaching on the 'fallen nature of man' so is doomed to ultimate failure.
Our current  left-created society is clearly going in a totally different direction. In the early sixties we were considerably closer to 'a better mankind' than we are today. We are regressing!
If I am wrong, why then do we seldom hear words like 'decency or duty' any more? 'Obligations', 'doing the right thing', 'morality' - why are these mocked by leftist politicians, commentators and even comedians?
We have seen on this Blog how theft and mendacity are on the increase should more tangible proofs be needed.

Phew.