Civilization in Reverse
My friend recently asked me a question:
"Name one invention whose adverse effects have not eclipsed the good"
He went on to say that man should not civilize and invent new things, because he will surely suffer for it. He suggests that man could have continued to live indefinitely without rudimentary technological innovations such as the wheel, and farming, not to mention fire, by continuing to hunt and forage.
I strongly disagree. What do you think?
"Name one invention whose adverse effects have not eclipsed the good"
He went on to say that man should not civilize and invent new things, because he will surely suffer for it. He suggests that man could have continued to live indefinitely without rudimentary technological innovations such as the wheel, and farming, not to mention fire, by continuing to hunt and forage.
I strongly disagree. What do you think?
pour vous, grace a sykora @ 3:43 AM
9 Comments:
hmmm... me thinks, that however ideal it might seem... man cudnt have stayed without inventing the wheel and going for the ride of his life on it.
It goes against basic human nature to not explore; become curious; find out stuff...if not for anything else but to just see if he can.
It is true that this is the very reason why we are where we are in this world today... sometimes i wonder once we become like the Jetsons, then what? We'll probably move to other planets too.. and then go on to galaxies, if we survive that long though...
ANyway, my point is that, anything that doesnt allow the needle of a balancing scale to not move, has a very good effect and a very bad effect.
it's upto u to see that the needle remains in place... or u cud just blame the company??!
adios!
P.S: if i havent made sense, please excuse me!!
You're excused.
But what if the next argument was that man could have and should have successfully lived himself out in the stone age, and shouldn't have gone any further?
people always wish for something they don't have. in the stone age ppl probably didnt even dream of the stuff we live with today... we on the other hand, at times feel it wudave been a simpler life back then... i'd like to take the best of both worlds... since that's all that is feasible today!!
P.S: what is with this new comments page? it sucks!!
Could you please clarify "new comments page"?
i dnt knw what happd the first time i logged on.. it seems to be alright now.
sorrry!!
I couldn't agree more.
We aren't any happier, in fact I should think that we are less happy than our ancestors were. All our inventions are doing for us are making our lives more complicated. We are in an eternal quest to find happiness, to fulfill our needs, and we create things to help us fulfill these needs.
But the human species will not sit still, it will not be content, it will not be happy with what it has. A human will try to make its life easier and easier by complicating its life more and more, eventually turning the entire course of invention and necessity of invention into a vicious circle.
I admit I'm ashamed to belong to my species.
Kaushik
sounds nuts....
A female once told me
"Man should not research into medicine anymore"
Me: Why?
She: Then the death rate will go up and population will comedown
Mental....
Not every country is over populated...
IMHO: That is complete rubbish. In the chaos that is the universe, Humans are the peak of evolution as we know it. We are the height of development of matter and energy via the constant chaotic dissosiation and recombination by change in state of energy concentration.
Basically, the world is just there for us to exploit. Science is but a tool, a study of the world and the ways it can be exploited...
Humans will keep on moving, growing, developing, spreading, consuming, assimilating, devouring. That's what everything does: If we don't, we'll get devoured. That is how the universe works. If we, as a species, do not exploit, we get exploited. If we do not destroy, we get destroyed.
No god, only infinite Chaos...
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