RSA Animate - 21st Century Enlightenment

The RSA's Chief Executive Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of the RSA's strapline '21st Century Enlightenment'. How might this idea might help us meet the challenges the world faces today, and what role can be played by organisations such as the RSA?
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This audio has been edited from the original event by Becca Pyne.

RSA Animate series producer, Abi Stephenson.

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[DeaddudeRS]

So We End Up Evolving over time to a race of all wise and powerful god-like creatures playing with the universe though our technology while seeking peace and happiness with each other?

Sounds good to me.

[Awbrfg55]

Humanism becomes transhumanism, and transhumanism leads to being posthuman. Progressively removing our violent tendencies, turning our biological machinery into mechanical and synthetic machinery, and realizing the summit and heights of our ideals and perhaps even going beyond them to possibilities and virtues yet unimaginable.

[Stalkout]

animator is making fun of the narrator's accent hah.

[Mot Anolec]

I agree. I think the idea that violent media leads to violence or moral apathy is unfounded. I think this idea comes from people who are making bare assumptions and not really bothering to study the issue to find out whether it is true or not.

[Beto Sousa]

Perfect!

[privatesamg7]

Funny *-*

[MateusTTTT]

I cannot see how being biological is somehow a bad thing, or a thing to be laid behind.

[davymatheny]

science has never proved that the earth rotates.they are more evidence that the earth is stable.and religion and nature does go hand in hand.exactly where and when religion was invented was based on nature.i see an agenda in this vid....

[Douglas Geusz]

Would you care to elaborate? I am confused.

[Douglas Geusz]

Right? Man I would just wallpaper my room with these things!

[Todd Houstein]

You guys should publish the finished drawings of these videos... They'd make great posters!

[speedyblupi]

I think violent video games may be the symptom, not the cause.

I play all sorts of games, but violent games rarely appeal to me, especially when the morality of the character(s) you play as is questionable.

Of course, I can occasionally enjoy violent games without wanting to replicate it in real life, as can other people, but some people cannot.