I've just finished watching the new Cosmos series and I just want to express some thoughts.
It makes me hopeful for our collective consciousness in the coming years. From my perspective it seems we are about to experiencing a shifting culture. It feels like the years of mass media misinformation for profit have worn us weary of hyperbole. No one wants to be fooled, no one wants to be wrong. Perhaps our selfishness will save us.
I know I'm prone to bouts of grand perspective. It all seems so clear to the narative in my brain..that the more we learn about our brain and our consciousness the more we understand just what little control (if any) we actually have. And maybe as we come to understand just what we are, what great and powerful and ultimately meaningless forces we can produce we can create a collective narrative of truth and discovery.
But we'll see.