We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
-Carl Sagan
I can but agree.
Could you honestly say, hand-on-heart, that you are happy with our technology-based-electronically-obssessed&relaint society?
I posted a week or so ago, about how an internet glitch, pc crash etc can knock us out these days, myself included...and I am constantly fighting with this, as I have hitherto embraced technology, but for how much longer?
I fully realise, that when I am with ink pen, drawing paper, garden and wine, sun and pine, I'm so much happier than when hooked-up by pc...no wonder they called it the web/net, how apt that was, but are we all losing our ability to think for ourselves; I mean the net has brought brilliance, knowledge, quickness of thought, but also, we forget that we need our own time and space, real worldly events and organic interaction.
Science and technology, governments and their nanny states have wrought havoc on the soul of humaness.
When the net goes down, it is not our final curtain call...we are the audience yes, the stage is ours by choosing, not by 'acting'. And the end of the show allows us to return home, not to merely wait for the next performance. Stand back, life is life...if you don't go out to experience it, (at least a little bit), you may as well be dead.
Things in perspective make perfect sense to perceptive watchers...just watch where you are standing and keep moving, not sitting!!!
lauren6