> If your entire existence is justified by creature comforts and an unyielding demand that nothing ever changes, then isn't technological progress just as disru

> If your entire existence is justified by creature comforts and an unyielding demand that nothing ever changes, then isn't technological progress just as disruptive to your ethos? I said that I wanted each generation to live better than the last. From what did you draw the conclusion that this means stasis, or is contradictory to my ethos? Over the past several thousand years, on average, each generation has lived better than the previous, and technological progress is the main reason for that. Since you didn't really grok my basic thesis, I think the rest of your argument is against a strawman.