We'd probably be in space and shit if we all thought as one and worked in uniformity
I don't think so. Our technological and scientific advances have been made by some people smarter than the rest, intellectual capabilities and interest into a specific subject being differences etc...
No differences would mean no knowledge as well. Our shared knowledge comes from the fact many different people explored the subject they were interested in and wrote about it.
Would mean no art as well.
Just nothing.
To be "ants able to go to space", we would probably have to be a specie of geniuses only, with innate knowledge of our environment.
If we evolved behaving like "human ants" with no identity, I think we'd mostly have ended up naked, living in hives, with tendancies for cannibalism. There wouldn't be one's dream to lead us somewhere, we would only care about the "durability" of the specie. We wouldn't have any idea about the concept of happiness/sadness etc...
Anyway, that's just random speculations about evolution.
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About Zeitgeist, I personnally saw it, and the 2nd one as well. It's not really about conspirationism, althought it does ask the questions about 9/11, but it doesn't give any answer. It basically says people should doubt about the official version, being a bit critical toward what medias repeat mindlessly.
I think Zeitgeist is more about what men are capable to do, in the name of money and power, values our actual system praises. It doesn't say "believe in this or that", it's more about how control and power corrupts people. There's no conspiracy and evil people, only men living by the principles of their political environment and taking advantage of their positions when they have the chance to do so.
The second zeitgeist is about alternative society models, it's pretty cool.
Last edited by deprav; May 23, 2013 at 10:44 AM.