Science is relative, depending on what paradigm in which it is being paracticed. Many of the so-called greatest scientific achievements may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but were actually collosal blunders, and foolish mistakes that have since become entrenched mainstays of civilization. If one asks how this could have happened, the answer is quite simple. Consider the basic process of combustion, the scientific term for fire. To our early ancestors it must have been the most amazing thing to harness this natural energy, and use it beneficially. This new power was so awesome that they became obsessed with it, ignoring all the other possible discoveries. Prehistoric humans were extremely ignorant, ape-like creatures. But they truly believed that they were geniuses once they stumbled on to using fire, making tools and inventing lots of other crude contrivances. For tens of thousands of years their overly inflated egos blinded them from seeing past the level of rudimentary innovation, and this condition eventually became permanently embedded in our DNA. The subhuman fascination with fire still excites the primitive idiot inside us all. And most technological breakthroughs are similarly misguided exploits. That's why they use the term breakthroughs, and not some other more constructive term. Thermonuclear weaponry is a perfect example of science gone awry.
If science is supposed to help us, why does it always end up killing us? Because human beings are savage animals who pretend to be on a higher level. Such self-agrandizing pseudo-sophistication limits us to the same old backward mentality that kept us stuck in the stone ages for so long. And now our technology threatens to bomb us back into the stone ages once again. It's not that technology per se is a problem, it's what we do with it that is the issue. Scientists are just like their cave-dwelling predecessors, rolling the dice, risking life and limb in a gambling game, betting against security and survival, for a short-lived flash-in-the-pan brain fart, so they can get another round of funding for their next genetic mutant monster experiment, or doomsday machine upgrade. There is no shortage of examples that demonstrate this fact. In fact, the term demonstrate comes from the phrase, demon straight from hell. Since the dark ages science and spirituality have been diametrically opposed schools of thought. Recently however old school diehards have been dying off, and rays of quantum light are burning holes through their derelict dogma. But let's not pop the champaigne corks just yet, there's still plenty of closed minded morons roaming the marble halls of academia
There was never any real need for fire. It was first used by the feeble for a sense of security because it made them feel warm and fuzzy all over. This mental and physical weekness was contageous, and soon humans from all walks of life began their lazy-minded descent into reverse evolution. Instead of using their minds creatively they adopted every easy technique that came along, thinking that they were oh so smart. However the reality is that by always opting for the simple solutions, they became simpletons who never developed much intellectual aptitude. And as a result of their negligence, we now must work extra hard to overcome their shortcoming. It will take the combined effort of the entire human race thinking cerebrally to grow our brains enough to transcend the rut in we're in.
So we should use it to weed out the problematic technological ideas and inventions. |
