I like your idea of GOATS and Thomas Paine was, and is, a hero; but to bring together your luminaries (and I'd switch out Harry and Meghan for King Charles) to tell the Universe Story seems unlikely. For that to happen, I remain convinced that humanity needs to experience and even expect Disaster. The whole world needs to be collectively shocked by what we have become and how we are living on this planet. The only alternative to Disaster with sufficient weight to bring about such a complete reorientation of thought is undeniable extraterrestrial visitation akin to "Divine Intervention", and in such a way that we are awed and humbled by the experience rather than further riled up.
Paul and Suzanne, I was reading your comments about the world being terrible and heading for disaster and my first thought was... "based on which metric?" Since google is apparently reading our thoughts now, a youtube video popped up this morning showing a debate about this subject. Stephen Pinker argues that since the enlightenment the world has never been better, while John Mearsheimer argues those gains are at the cost of truth and morality. Interesting chat, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA-tCQJEzqk&t=564&ab_channel=TheInstituteofArtandIdeas
I like your idea of GOATS and Thomas Paine was, and is, a hero; but to bring together your luminaries (and I'd switch out Harry and Meghan for King Charles) to tell the Universe Story seems unlikely. For that to happen, I remain convinced that humanity needs to experience and even expect Disaster. The whole world needs to be collectively shocked by what we have become and how we are living on this planet. The only alternative to Disaster with sufficient weight to bring about such a complete reorientation of thought is undeniable extraterrestrial visitation akin to "Divine Intervention", and in such a way that we are awed and humbled by the experience rather than further riled up.
Paul and Suzanne, I was reading your comments about the world being terrible and heading for disaster and my first thought was... "based on which metric?" Since google is apparently reading our thoughts now, a youtube video popped up this morning showing a debate about this subject. Stephen Pinker argues that since the enlightenment the world has never been better, while John Mearsheimer argues those gains are at the cost of truth and morality. Interesting chat, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA-tCQJEzqk&t=564&ab_channel=TheInstituteofArtandIdeas