Originally Posted by
MisterV
Hey, wait a minute ...
I think that, to some extent, every one tries to, has to try to re- define and arrange the world, in a way that suits their circumstances. So, it could be that every one chooses to believe that they live in exceptional times. Certainly, it's human nature, from group down to individual, to feel special. Likely, beyond the species, an evolutionary trait. If Aristotle was right about man being an animal that brings things to extremes, well, then just wait and see, speculate about, etc, what comes down the road.
Most likely, the most interesting time of all involves the "big" bang/crunch and freeze. Just because we weren't/won't literally be around for it doesn't mean that it happens in isolation.
Anyway, the stuff going on now has to be, by far, more of a man-made "tragedy". Karl Marx: History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
There is so much going on here, but, suffice it to add that even a proved real and actual theory of everything can not, by definition, be overly interesting. After all, if you look at, say, only the possible types and degrees of abstract point as micro/macro- black hole, electron, space-time singularity, a point made of its own surface (a one-sided surface, or line), an untenable point so "small" that it dissolves to every where at once, a point that is our particular universe with respect to an infinity of universes, a point that is in while out, and, so on, then all you have to do is go over and over your theory, until you have stumbled across all the "hidden driveways" in your theory that lead to such, in practice. Trial and error, like anything else. As well, for a theory of everything to be of much use, ie, a theory of everything, then it can't occur on the very end of things. It can't be overly interesting.