Its not necessarily so mystical.
You could say that all we have ever seen is the end, a history, that we reflect on. In fact, we are such experts, it has become a dull blur of enlightened warfare.
The wars aren't ever ending, because they are always being justified. Justice is the constant resolution and rationalization of the present, and of all events throughout history.
Always enlightened in the present, and ridiculous zealots in history - Less modern and less civilized; what is justice in the historical outlook of wars of the past, or of any other nation besides ones own? What is justice without its patriot enlightenment?
As our philosophies currently stand, war will always be justified in the present, and tragic in the past. And yet you are saying we should be skeptical that this is a tragedy of mankind? Only in the past right?
Consider our western enlightenment of reason and rationality: Or today, those realists and rationalists who grew out of it; or rather, the rationalists who are for that reason consider themselves realists, solely because a ratio-nality is posited whole (Hey look, I think therefore I am!):
A glimmer of hope; the ever burning fire that is and has been our freedom and justice,
this enlightenment is what fuels us in our history long transition.
In other words, holistic, self centered thinking.
Man has always considered the proportionality of his being, but he has forgotten the naturalistic assumption it is based upon, namely that this proportioning is only derived from a positivistic philosophy:
For instance, the chief virtue of this enlightenment is freedom...of the market - That is, freedom as proportioned, because there is no other way to divy it out. So to whatever extent this proportional justice is genuinely maintained, it is fueled on the energy of a finite planet. (that is our forgotten posited existence)
His technological philosophy is no different; again it is man in the cradle of infinite possibility, because anything less would be unreasonably dogmatic. In fact, all our utilatarian models of philosophy are geared for an infinite planet, while we unfortunately exist on a finite one.
Yes, to that proportion, man has always feared apocalypse. That is one bias of the present that has always been ridiculous, given that we are still here. Nature has throughout history lived up to our philosophies and maintained herself in semblance of an infinite well-spring in relation to man.
But our existence as posited is finally catching up with her. Roughly, only within the last 50 or so years have we developed the capability of armaments to destroy the planet, and in the last 300 or so that our industry began irreparably damaging it. But you would say this is the same apocalyptic nonsense of our entire history? You would write this novelty off in the same manner as the rest of history?
The specifics of novelty theory are lofty, but we don't even need the specifics. It is simple and easy enough to see how our philosophies are presently rooted, and have always been rooted. We have never considered a philosophy other than being in the absolute cradle of nature, and only as of very recently, technologically speaking, we no longer little tykes.
Yet we (that is the we of scientific naturalism and capitalistic economy) still have the discreetness as a self centered toddler. Even if this is the "inner child" of enlightenment, of infinite wonder and opportunity, it happens to exist in a finite world.
All in all, man's present bias has many facets, all typically derived from the vast proportioning of all of reality to a presently enlightened man. There are so many implications to consider.
No doubt, death anxiety has for the longest time given us something to laugh at in retrospect. Ever been in a situation where you were almost wiped off the face of the earth? Afterwords, it is comforting to have a good laugh. Realistically considered, as you say, if it never touched you - in fact, given that you are alive, it never came close. You laugh, as if you were to all sensibility, naive in your moment of fear.
But having a clown of death over our shoulder doesn't contradict that we are to all methods of reasoning, hurtling toward death on SOME time-frame.
That is immanently clear unless our philosophies of economy and science begin to consider a finite existence. Our mounting consideration is not the proportioning of a ratio-nally enlightened man. Neither can we truly envision proportion in any timeframe other than the past.
To the future, we may easily consider the implications of this age old posited enlightenment, on an evidently limited sphere.
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Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!
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