Technology

Some people think that without technology life wouldn’t be as pleasurable as it because we would lack the comfort that we have become accustomed too and have built up in our mind to resemble happiness, but what does comfort and happiness really mean to you? Is comfort and happiness being able to go the grocery store to pick up your food instead of growing and tilling your own land with close relatives and friends? Does quality of life only apply to the length of life that you live as opposed to the amount of joyful memories you created? I would say that technology has become more about quantity, and the extension of time that you have on this earth does not necessarily mean it will be any more pleasurable. Just ask the people suffering from cancer that will eventually die in the hospital, or the many people hooked up to respirators.  

My personal thoughts are that technology has only extended time, but eventually we will still die and when we do, we will be further away from God and faith than any other civilizations to have lived on this planet. The few of us who do experience God are the ones who get the small moments that no technology can recreate, which are life and death.

Before technological advances in medicine many individuals died in their 40’s some in their early 50’s, but these individuals also knew what it meant to be in at the mercy of God to provide them with things like good harvest from plentiful rain. Now because of technology, we play God and create our own rain. If you don’t believe it research cloud seeding and silver iodide.

I know I didn’t create the seed that turns into a huge tree, or the egg that hatches into an animal. I also didn’t create planets, stars, or the endless galaxies in space, but maybe I am the only one who thinks that quality is measured by the extent of emotions and experiences you have been exposed to.

Don’t get me wrong, I do like the some of the comforts that we have like refrigerators and air-conditioning, but I would trade all of it to reverse the amount of destruction technology has also done to our  family connections, spirit, and to the deaths humanity has experienced from things like the atom bomb and genetically engineered sicknesses.

What do I believe technology is and represents? Technology is the separation of humans from the purpose of their existence into meaningless creature comforts that create jealousy, envy, arrogance, boastfulness and greed.