Template:Singularity and perspective chauvinism
That we are arcing exponentially upward towards something, as the adjacent possibilities explode around us[1] presumes that where we are, presently, as close to “our common end goal” — truth, nirvana, apocalypse? Who knows? — as human civilisation has ever been. Now, seeing as we don’t, Q.E.D., know what that end goal is (if we did, we would already be there), nor therefore can we know how close we are to it, nor whether we are going in the right direction. Better hypothesis, thanks to Occam’s razor: there is no end-goal.