Arthur Keith on the future
by Slava on Mar.25, 2011, under 6 future congeries
It’s more a contemplating than predicting remark; ‘I wish it would happened this way, but it wont’, alas’. He predicts further specialization, ever growing specialization, and frightened by it. Are we? Should we?
As a professional anthropologist, he finds it important to comment on the possible developments of human species, but these comments are incredibly vague: “The innate nature of our grand-grand-children will be the same as ours [... but] their reactions will be modified according to the direction in which our present civilization develops.” Which is what?
He was more specific when he argued after the World War II that anti-Semitism has ‘racial origin’ and that Jews live by a ‘dual code’ (??).
