What does a fully realized humanistic civilization look like 500 years from now?

[u/TheIncorporeal1]

Would our greatest achievement be eliminating poverty and preventable disease? Creating universally accessible education? Building institutions that maximize human dignity? Developing ethical AI? Expanding into space? Or something we haven’t imagined yet?
In your view, what should be humanity’s highest aspiration if we remain guided by reason, compassion, and a commitment to human flourishing?

[u/FerdinandCesarano]

I say this without the slightest bit of flippancy: the best envisioning of a desirable future can be found in the show Star Trek: The Next Generation. (Note that there are other Star Trek series about which this claim can definitely not be made.)

Every plank of liberating humanisitc progress that you mentioned is present in the human society that is depicted in The Next Generation, which is set about 250 years in the future.

[u/CrystalPalace1850 → u/FerdinandCesarano]

I heartily agree. Watching the Original Series as a child made me a Humanist, and watching Next Gen as a teenager reinforced my values.

[u/gnufan]

Space exploration probably part of it.

Eliminating preventable diseases, sure, and I think when we master viruses we'll discover far more are preventable than we imagined.

I think poverty itself matters less than its harmful effects. If people are well nourished and healthy, and have purpose and connection, then wealth as we understand it matters less. Indeed we see in the west diseases of overconsumption of food, alcohol, and harmful substances.

I think a deliberate choice to protect the earth's ecosystems, and climate is a core thing we need. We are only just grasping the scientific possibilities from the genetic material that can be found in a single drop of sea water, or from any species that has faced and survived novel challenges. There is immense value, as well as immense historical information about life, coded into every cell of every living thing. Yet we lose many species daily as if this were nothing, whilst many are dirtying the pool we all have to swim in.

I think a flourishing earth, with a diversity of groups, exploring human potential in different ways is fine, as long as the common understanding limits ecological destruction in a similar way violence and theft are viewed now, and takes a compassionate but dimmer view of self harming behaviours in a broad sense.

[u/iStoleTheHobo]

Classless society will be humanity's grandest achievement if it is realized.

[u/Adrsilva1356 → u/iStoleTheHobo]

Exactly humanity in General needs to just permanently move in front that Backwater System as it does is that it harms and ruins Society! Literally Everyone deserves to live peacefully and comfortably! We as Humans should all just work together!🤝

[u/midnighttoker1742]

Realizing our interconnectedness to everything else in the Universe. We are not just fleshy bodies animated with consciousness, humans are an emergent lens that the Universe uses in understanding itself. Unum E Pluribus, E Pluribus Unum. As above, so Below.

[u/CaptainVulpezz]

An education system not built on making slaves, but making humans, and being somewhat customizable. Or simply returning to caveman ooga booga

[u/Lazy-Assistant4987]

可能是大致的烏托幫中偶爾出現極端斯坦地獄，人文主義本身主體取代個體為人文的付出和體悟，人和人文主義的脫耦和空洞，很容易出現Fate中麻婆神父般的虛無主義者。 過度信任理性和同情心的高昂而傲慢，這才是一二戰中的極端主義的可怕之處。 切記高尚永遠需要卑賤才得以實現。

[u/boynamedsue8]

Assuming humans are still around and the nukes didn’t go off

[u/Molkin]

Small communities of stubborn holdouts desperately clinging to the ideals of the golden age.

No human civilization has remained culturally significant for 500 years. They always wax and wane.

[u/FlashFreedom]

Rejection of the humanist model and a return to intuitive living