There are examples of foregoing the use of known tech, like the Amish, but it really means a deep break with the western ethos and takes something like a deep c

There are examples of foregoing the use of known tech, like the Amish, but it really means a deep break with the western ethos and takes something like a deep committing to a religion to carry out. The default is that you work on things with the honest goal of making it work. Yes, we've become too good at making tech But a balance of camaraderie in honest effort, but not quite as much to be really successful is a knife's edge. In a way, solving all the problems in the textbook may be a sad moment, despite the fact that working on it hard meant that it would happen if you're competent. If you want to try hard but fail perpetually, like Sysyphus, you have to be intentionally incompetent. Like always try to solve your math problems when drunk. Then you won't get sad that there are no more problems because you will not be able to solve them. There are warning examples in religion and myth, like Ikarus, the Tower of Babel etc that striving for more capability is not always good. Of course these religions are dismissed by modern people. Well, this is the result.