Seival wrote...
...Yes, this is that simple.
While the process isn't over yet, evolution demands changes. Evolution demands saying farewell to old ways.
If you don't wanna be changed, if you don't wanna change others, if you don't have desire to shape the world around you, then you are dead-end and will become extinct eventually. And the ones who always look forward, who's mind is opened to changes and innovations - will prevail.
This is the way the universe works.
One can theorize over the merits and demerits of Synthesis, as of the other endings. This statement, however, contains exactly the type of reasoning that should alienate anyone with some knowledge of history.
I will agree that a work of science fiction can exist within the rules of its own setting - and within those rules, if one chooses to interpret Synthesis in a benign way, one can find beauty and even poetry in it. But still, no work of fiction exists dettached from culture and history. When you advocate that
Synthesis is the final evolution of life, one must point out to the dangerous political connotations of the word "final".
If you search for the lessons of history you will find that the greatest calamities perpertated by men where done by those who found it legitimate to "change" others, even on the level of individual ideas, in the name of the greater "good". If you disregard the value of individual freedom, even going so far as to define it as a "dead-end", you should know that you're siding with some of the darkest ideas ever produced by mankind.
I don't think the OP is aware of these connotations, but he/she should.
Also, if you look at evolution, scientifically, you will comprehend that it is a very chaotic process of trial and error, where much "information" is lost. It's a process of adaptability that isn't driven by any sense of inevitability or perfection.
Nothing is "that simple"...
Peace.
) but you do know that synthesis is in no way evolution ... it is a force "upgrade" if you wish to call it that
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