The future is wild.
Recently I
saw an educational film “The future is
wild”. The picture has made strong impression. “The future is wild” concerns to the phenomenon that refers to «middle
culture» (cultural educational area of art).
Founders of
film show to us, what (in their opinion) the fauna will accept shape through 5,
100 and 200 million years on the Earth. Quality of special effects same, as in
series of films “Walks with dinosaurs” and “Walks with beasts”. Indelible impression
makes huge jellyfish colonies, predatory mollusks floating in waters.
There are nine-ton
overland «mega squid» (like an elephant), fishes-birds,
predatory bugs, super huge (120 tons) turtles …
But at all
delight, should tell, that the picture gives more information not about the
future forms of a life, but about the present of modern culture. In particular,
that occurs in heads of the scholars.
First
of all, is evident full absence of teleology. My consciousness was formed
during Modernism epoch. And the mainest attribute of a modernism - a cult of
Progress, constant and steady movement to the best. The cult of Progress, in
turn, is transformed (and a little bit deformed) idea of Christianity.
Proceeding
from the given idea, the matter goes on a way of constant complication:
inorganic chemistry, organic molecules. Then a life: monocelled, invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles. Animals,
primates, the person. This outlook is illustrated as well as possible with a
phylogenetic tree of fauna and “a spiral of time”, with more and more
accelerated rate of development.
Further steps
of a human society: primitive-communal, slaveholding, feudal, capitalist. After
capitalism there comes socialism (as the first phase of communism). Or (if do
not love communists) - a liberal, «open» society (“liberte,
egalite, fraternite”).
On liberalism the civilization also has stumbled.
Last decades
the stream of fundamental discoveries has sharply become scanty. And not
because to open there was nothing, more likely - there is nobody. Creative
people, certainly, are available - but they not so go in a science, preferring
economic, political, social, cultural business. In a science the level of
routine and dogmatism raises.
And it, by
the way, occurs not for the first time in human history. The long centuries
previous to the Modernism, opening were not made almost, and laws of the
nature, in general, did not cause interest. It seems that now we come back to
something similar.
The given
idea, probably, will seem paradoxical, in fact last decades we became witnesses
of enormous jerk, especially in information sphere. But, at first sight. For in
a basis of information revolution fundamental opening 19 - first half of 20
centuries lay. And sense of most this revolution not in opening new, and in
ordering already existing. It is necessary, certainly also.
But, when
opening cease to be made, also the source having development of technologies in
due course becomes scanty. And the most important - in economic revolution new
resources are not involved. Earlier wood was replaced with peat and coal, them
is oil and gas, later - energy of atom.
Now (since
times of the Roman club) speak about limitation of resources and that “for all
will not suffice”. Certainly, not the rich countries and rich classes should
limit the “various requirements” - they are not ready to this. Should be
reduced poor - and not only on needs, but also for own number. Whenever
possible considerably.
All this also
refers to the Postmodern – “after the Modern”. And in culture there is an
eclectic game by fragments of the past.
And here
however strange all this was reflected in the concept of film “The future is wild”. From it the man (“a
final of creation”) is removed. Well all right, mankind was lost, has died out.
But what are animals? They should be developing!
In fact even
with allocation of the main branch conducting to the humanity, other groups did
not stand on a place (as philosophers wrongly assert sometimes). Insects (and
their most promoted representative ants) have appeared after fishes. Already
after mammals other branch of reptiles turned into birds. After extinction of
dinosaurs octopuses and squids have appeared (rather perfect essences). During
same time there were modern advanced sharks with their advanced brain, and a
little bit earlier - the bony fishes (characteristic complex group behavior).
And so on.
What authors of film? Of course, they like octopuses, squids and arthropods (whom
are promising a gain of the sea and a land and perfection of the maximum nervous
activity). But somehow not so be evident fruits of last. Well, spiders in
mountains began to conduct a public way of life and create
huge networks (but they are farther than modern public insects in development
have not gone). Well, octopuses on land began to live, hunting groups. And it
for two hundred millions years!
In evolutionistic there are two concepts: aromorphoz and adaptation.
The first means the key transformation of a kind deducing it on new level of
development (as a rule, higher though there were also return cases).
All film is constructed by means excellent adaptive reconstruction. And any obvious example aromorphoz.
As all this reminds our Postmodern!
Alex Fantalov.
Poll Gauguin and Vincent Vincent Van Gogh.