Increasing Complexity

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was one of my intellectual heroes in college. The Jesuit paleontologist and thinker
foresaw both the increase in pace and difficulty that the world was heading towards. Man's inability to keep up or even comprehend the complexification was also foretold. In a "meta" sense, it was easy to see how and why the world was tending in the way that Chardin thought it was.

Now every idea, every revolution, every change begets an undercutting, an antithesis -- a movement in another direction. But instead of Hegel's positive  movement towards synthesis -- there is created instead a standoff of sorts. One side versus another. One idea versus its opposite. And no men of good will to broker the differences.

Even genius cannot bridge the gap -- nor can tumult create some kind of winning philosophy that would supersede the strife. It would seem that only a kind of intellectual stratification can ever result -- with the final outcome being that no one philosophy, or religion, or idea-set, or way of life -- can ever be open enough or resilient enough to include all competing ideas.