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What bothers me about this piece is that the seven generations she almost describes as "lost" were the most productive generations in humanity's history. Think
by eliben 10y ago
What bothers me about this piece is that the seven generations she almost describes as "lost" were the most productive generations in humanity's history. Think how the developed world looked in 1850 and how it looks now. This is the work of there generations of "dogs locked in a cage". Something doesn't compute.
- LionessLover 10y agoAn indirect response: Try this for another explanation/point of view (it's kept short and to the point): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U (About the speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Robinson_%28educationalist%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Robinson_%28educationalist...
- guard-of-terra 10y agoWhat if those generations are not "lost" but are spent? We took humans, we extracted every bit of work from them, we got a lot of work done and a lot of empty shells for people. What if with each generation it's an downward spiral? Because it certainly looks so.
- vatotemking 10y agoInteresting view. And to that, what have we spent them for?
- dsabanin 10y agoI think an important question to ask is, are we happier for it? Are we more content? Not everyone has the same answer to that question.
- wvenable 10y agoLots of people tend to observe the past as being better than it actual was. Are we happier and more content now? Quite possibly we actually are.
- vatotemking 10y agoThe thing is, we have optimized for progress and productivity at the expense of our "wildness" and mother nature. Yes we are a developed world, but at what expense? Right now we are seeing the effects of this disconnect: global warming, depletion of resources, dying ocean, pollution, overpopulation, etc. Somehow in the future we need to have a right balance between productivity and our connection with the nature.