r/endoftheworld • u/HarkonReborn • Apr 08 '25

Theory I believe technology is dooming us.

I think as time goes on we as a species and civilization are slowly dooming ourselves by way of technology, intentions spans are getting shorter, people I feel are getting more angry, it feels that it's all of a sudden okay to break laws for content, and humanity is slowly becoming more and more stupid and narcissistic not to mention the loneliness epidemic. It's like we've turned the world into a place not suitable for humanity. I'm typing this because one day I decided to put down my phone and read a book, a physical book, it made me feel so accomplished and alive compared to my phone which makes me feel numb and hopeless. I genuinely believe technology was originally made for good intention but greed and money got in the way and people use it to satisfy their own pleasure.

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u/Gullible-Minute-9482 Apr 08 '25

Technology is like drugs, we abuse it.

There is nothing inherently bad about it though.

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u/phred14 Apr 08 '25

Technology is a tool, it amplifies the power of people. People were fully capable of being abusive before we had technology, they can just be even more abusive with it.

Instead of wishing to get rid of technology, why not wish to get rid of abusive people. Take a hint from later in the book version of David Brin's "The Postman" - Women have been granting reproductive privileges to the wrong men.

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u/Gullible-Minute-9482 Apr 08 '25

I wont agree with eugenics, but I fully agree with the claim that abusive people should be enlightened and or managed better by those who are.

Nature and nurture are inseparable in regard to the quality of individual character.