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Originally posted by TheOracle
Technology on the whole is a good thing, but unfortunately it is only used to enslave us! And I am not talking about all the tracking and surveillance devices . Why is it that nowadays we all "need" a plasma HDTV, fancy clothes or even cars?
Technology and inventions are meant to make our lives easier, instead we must work 40 hours a week if we would like to get them and new things are coming out faster than we can enjoy what we have! Not to mention that new and better items will cost more while the buying power is almost stagnant.
I hear the people thinking: "no one forces you to spend on such things" but think about it! Our children grow up in a world filled with negative publicity, emphasis on materialistic values, jewellery, flashy cars and expensive lifestyles. They lose track of what really matter and end up working and spending on useless junk or committing crimes to get it. And since parents are working all day, kids lack the parental presence and often become out of control causing more problems for society. The material has taken our love away from us.
Then those who are thinking : "what the fuss, working 40 hours a week isn't such a big deal". But take a look back at your life, sum up all the hours spent in your life working and sleeping. Are you really enjoying your life on Earth? All this time wasted when it could be such a joyful experience with the one you love, learning new things.
Our ancestors and tribes in the jungles do not spend half the time we do hunting and gathering, and they live happily in perfect harmony. There are things we can learn from them!
All the latests gadgets also tend to keep us separated from others human beings. Cellphones, computers, robots, video games are killing what's his left of our social values.
And on top of this slavery, the governments are already tracking monitoring everyone of us and it's not getting better.
~Peace
Originally posted by TheOracle
Technology on the whole is a good thing, but unfortunately it is only used to enslave us! And I am not talking about all the tracking and surveillance devices . Why is it that nowadays we all "need" a plasma HDTV, fancy clothes or even cars?
Originally posted by TheOracle
Technology and inventions are meant to make our lives easier, instead we must work 40 hours a week if we would like to get them and new things are coming out faster than we can enjoy what we have! Not to mention that new and better items will cost more while the buying power is almost stagnant.
Originally posted by TheOracle
Our children grow up in a world filled with negative publicity, emphasis on materialistic values, jewellery, flashy cars and expensive lifestyles. They lose track of what really matter and end up working and spending on useless junk or committing crimes to get it. [...]
Originally posted by TheOracle
Our ancestors and tribes in the jungles do not spend half the time we do hunting and gathering, and they live happily in perfect harmony. There are things we can learn from them!
Originally posted by TheOracle
Cellphones, computers, robots, video games are killing what's his left of our social values.
Originally posted by slidebyem
People are lazy.
Originally posted by Astyanax
Not technology but desire enslaves you
If you feel like the OP, you are a caged rat forever turning the exercise-wheel of desire. Do not blame others or 'the system' for your position, because they are not at fault. It is your own inappropriate desires that enslave you.
Learn to desire that which is appropriate to you in your situation and condition of life and spurn that which is not. Then you will be free.
It is a very simple lesson, but very few ever seem to learn it.
I think it is because they have mistaken self-esteem for self-respect.