Author: УВАРОВ МИРОСЛАВ ИГОРЕВИЧ / UVAROV MIROSLAV IGOREVICH
In a century and a half or two, humanity will be different. It is very difficult to predict the evolution of a species, because it is impossible to take into account all the factors affecting it. However, even abstract forecasts are an interesting thing, and if we assume that no global factors, such as catastrophes, natural disasters and radical political upheavals, will interfere with the course of events, we can try to describe what people will be like in a couple of hundred years.
The main thing that people will have to say goodbye to, according to sociologists, is the gender difference. It is still rapidly decreasing with each generation, but it is difficult for us to imagine that in a hundred years men will not differ from women in almost anything. Anthropologists predict that even the height and muscular characteristics of women will approach those of men, because before the gender revolution, natural selection was carried out in such a way that men were valued strong and large, and women were loose and squat. The last generations of selection alpha female is tall, long—legged, narrow-hipped, and in a few generations this will lead to the fact that women will almost equal men in height and body structure.
Genders will disappear too, because they are a consequence of nothing else than the economic division of responsibilities: G — childbearing and maintenance, M — provision and protection. It is from this separation that the difference in the behavior, character and image of M and J. When the economic roles are fully aligned, that is, the process that is now in full swing will be completed, there will be no grounds for a different image. There will also be no class division and even professional division, or rather, it will be much less pronounced. There will be no people of working specialties, since primitive labor will be completely mechanized. And although people will still be divided into more capable and less capable, this difference will be much more leveled than it seems to us now.
Children will be raised in special vessels until birth. Perhaps this will become commonplace not in a century and a half, but a little later, but this is an inevitable stage of evolution, no matter how jarring this thought of current people. It seems so natural and beautiful to us to experience pregnancy and childbirth.
However, it no longer seems unnaturally ugly to us to conceive in vitro or to feed with a special mixture if it is not possible to conceive and feed. Diapers instead of diapers and contraception instead of annual childbirth seem very natural to us. It seems to us right to investigate the course of pregnancy with modern equipment, take tests from the embryo in case of indications, operate on violations and perform a cesarean section if there is a threat to the mother and child. Everything that seemed wild a couple of centuries ago seems right to us now. We got used to it and appreciated the advantages and amenities. Similarly, it will seem normal to our descendants that a child can be grown in a special container, creating an ideal immunomodulated development environment for him, observing his growth and not allowing the imperfect mother's body, her stresses, diseases, dietary disorders to affect the child, and at the same time not allowing the child to force the mother to sacrifice her health and years of full-fledged activity.
The idea of diapers was also not immediately approved by everyone. Many believed that only lazy mothers would allow their child to be in waterproof synetetics day after day, however, it is now clear that in this way there is a great saving of moral and physical strength of both mother and baby. Now it seems to us wild and delusional to demand that the mother change gauze diapers five times a night, not letting her and the baby sleep. Perhaps in two hundred years, it will seem wild and delusional to carry a child in your own stomach like an animal. This will be considered something primitive and look like retrograde eccentricity, as now the fundamental refusal of vaccinations and operations.
The demographic problem, of course, will be successfully solved. As many children as you need, there will be so many of them. The crisis of the family and the final decline of the tribal system will lead to the fact that there will not be much difference between the concept of your child and someone else's. Do not think that children will be deprived of parental warmth and understanding. Conversely. A person will be able to give warmth and understanding not only to physiological offspring, but will treat any human cub with admiration and adoration.
The preference for genetic children will seem as wild as rampant racism now seems. It seems normal to us to love our own child and be indifferent to someone else's, but already now people are beginning to be ashamed of their indifference and are cultivating humanity more and more. Sociologists-forecasters believe that this quality will develop and reach a logical maximum. There will be no generic alienation and love based on the principle of consanguinity, just as alienation and superiority based on the principle of race and nation are now being eliminated.
A cure for diseases, physical and mental, will be found. Hormone therapy will be replaced by neurotherapy, which will include not so much neurochemistry as neurophysics. People will finally understand what Voltaire has voiced yet: "Labor is a source of pleasure" or Aristotle: "Nothing exhausts and destroys a person like prolonged physical inactivity." The mechanism of happiness will be studied, and people will stop looking for pleasure in laziness, having accurately understood that these are mutually exclusive things.
The source of health is in intensive and systematic activity. Already, a greater number of scientists studying the problem of longevity believe that the main factor in curing diseases and prolonging life is inspired activity and obsession with some creative, scientific or other social goal. In a hundred or two hundred years, this will be finally understood and studied. They will look at an idle person, meaninglessly and aimlessly wandering through life, as they look at a starving person now, that is, with anxiety and expectation of imminent exhaustion and death.
The moral principle will almost completely replace morality. Crimes of one person against others will be classified as mental illness. A healthy person for the sake of his own spiritual harmony, health and happiness will not be able and will not want to violate the moral law. Murder will be considered what is now considered, for example, cannibalism, not justified by hunger, — a strange and terrible perversion, a consequence of insanity. Every person will have the optimal material comfort necessary for life, since technological progress will reach a great height, excessive comfort will be considered harmful and dangerous to life and health, and the need for power will be nullified, since love of power will be considered the same harmful quality as chauvinism, and those seeking power will be considered inferior, perverted people with an excess of painful aggression.
People will idealize humility and altruism. Such a structure of society will arise not as a result of the socialist revolution, but in a natural historical way, thanks to the development of economics, medicine and technology, which at some point will allow a person to get in his hands the levers to control the very principle of pleasure, around which human life is built. It will turn out that it is useless to look for these levers in the field of material accumulation and the realization of ambitions, they should be sought in the field of self-discipline and self-realization. What now seems to be beautiful, but abstract fables, will be obvious to people just as it is obvious to us now, for example, that it is impossible to kill children and it is very harmful to beat them. But a few centuries ago it was completely not obvious, on the contrary, something else seemed obvious: that it is possible to kill children, but it is very useful to beat them.
Humanity is evolving, and even if these forecasts seem utopian to you, it is impossible to deny them the socio-historical logic.
Sources of information:
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