In another thread which has been discussed...

Yes, I was serious. No, I wasn't playing a clever little philosophical gotcha game, not that I'm opposed to such.

What I failed to do is properly prepare the ground I was attempting to plant a new idea upon. Though upon observing the mod team in action, and reading the reviews of the thread and mod action, I'm guessing that probably wouldn't have mattered. Anyway, moving along...

The reason I was serious, which I didn't adequately explain, is this...

I believe the marriage of violent men and an ever accelerating knowledge explosion is going to lead to the collapse of civilization if we remain on the present status quo course. This can't be proven, and is clearly debatable, but that is my view.

From that perspective, the pending collapse of civilization is seen as a revolutionary situation of some urgency (it could literally happen today) requiring some response other than continuing to do the same things we've always done. Whether the idea I floated is the correct response is also clearly debatable, which is why I came to a philosophy forum, to debate it.

In the current context I totally agree, and have already stated, that the proposal I floated is fairly labeled a crackpot idea. As I tried to explain, if we could find world peace within the set of ideas which are considered normal, reasonable, sane etc, we would already have world peace. Thus, an exploration of the crackpot idea realm seems warranted.

What members are not taking in to account is that the current cultural context where such ideas appear to be crackpot ideas is not going to last forever. Imho, sooner or later somebody is going to do something like set off a nuke in a large city, and then the cultural context is going to change. As example, consider the response to 9/11, two wars costing trillions, round the clock media coverage for months etc.

In the current context, most people perceive a possible collapse of civilization in an abstract intellectual type manner, if they think about it at all. Once the first nuke goes off that relationship is going to change from abstract to personal, from intellectual to emotional. And when that happens large numbers of people are going to want a solution, and they're going to want it right now.

Point being, I'm typing to you from that future context to where you are in the current context. I get that you can't see what's coming, which after discussing this for a decade I understand to be completely normal. I'm not under the illusion (though I used to be) that we can avoid this coming change through a process of reason, as the threads being discussed here prove yet again. I now accept that the big event is going to have to happen first before we will be able to get our minds around the revolutionary situation the knowledge explosion has created.

So, I am serious, but I do accept that my activity on this subject is largely pointless. I'm just discussing this because it's all I know how to do, and it provides me with the illusion that I am making a difference.

I accept the mods decision without complaint. It's their forum to operate as they choose, I'm totally agreeable to that. But I also have to face that our interests just don't overlap. That's life, and the net is a big place, so no worries.