Human achievements and how they're being misused
in Spirituality ·
Roger Phillips82 said:What are your thoughts on humanity's greatest achievements and how they might be turned against us or the planet?
The situation seems quite transparent, and frankly, rather logical if one takes a moment to reflect upon it. It required a single Newton to establish the scientific method as the foundation for all subsequent sciences; then, an Einstein was needed to uncover relativity and general relativity—concepts that completely overturned our previous assumptions regarding the very nature of reality. Then, we needed Heisenberg to realize that the universe surrounding us is anything but what anyone expected, or could ever have anticipated... To put it briefly, behind all of humanity's milestones to this day, there stands a genuine, small army of individuals—visionaries, intellectuals, geniuses. The collective effort of these people has formed a structure that no single individual can fully grasp, and it is precisely here that massive problems begin to emerge. Consider one thing: how much more intelligent or generally advanced were any of these great figures compared to the average citizen of this beautiful planet of ours? Furthermore, consider the fact that these same average fools utilize the ready-made formulas and breakthroughs of those greats, and then you will arrive at the answer as to why technology works against us. It happens because the technology is being used by idiots who could never have discovered it themselves, who don't even understand it, and who see the only possible application for such technology as its exploitation to serve their own low impulses and interests. Einstein himself would never have pressed the detonator of an atomic weapon, yet the individuals who actually pushed that button almost certainly have no idea, even remotely, of the principles upon which that weapon operates. Or to rephrase: if the entire world were Einstein's establishment, would atomic weapons ever have been used in the manner they have been in our world? Therefore, as long as there exist people who are far ahead of their time, sharing their insights with an idiotic society, there will always be the abuse of technology.