2006-08-30 04:43:33 · 21 answers · asked by *RA* 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think as we advance as a society, we also increase the desparity between the "haves" and "have nots". The greater the desparity the more resentment breeds in certain communities and so does crime and violence. A lot of technology is great, but a lot of it has been very detrimental in ways too.
I think we've also lost sight of simplicity. We live in an age where everything is expected to be "right now". High speed internet, digital cable, fast food, U-Scan checkouts.
People have forgot how to relax and enjoy the blowing breeze on a sunny saturday afternoon. Kids get fat because they sit in front of video games and the computer all day. Parents don't care because at least they're not bugging them. Sad...I feel this way and I'm only 24. I barely remember life without the net, ha!
2006-08-30 05:36:58 · answer #1 · answered by jaxmiry 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I get one today, I need two tomorow and three dayafter.......that is the way greed grows. This corporate culture teaching us to be greedy, dissatisfied and longing for more always as a part of growing philosophy. The moment you say in your appraisal as OK I don't need any hike this year, you will surely loose your job. Hope you know the reason.
When your business grows, if you say I need more quality so I am not taking any new order...then??? No order from next month onwards.
If you tell your parents as I am not studying any more. I will go to some small job....they get depressed by thinking you are ruined.
Hope now you got where the happiness has gone. We forgot to enjoy a cold water bath. We forgot to enjoy sleep on a warm rock. We forgot that there are flowers and birds also........we forgot how to be happy. We are now conditioned by TV and media to buy more, have all accessories, still there are more products in the market to feel as not got all......see more beautiful skin, body, eyes, hair, nails....use all cosmetics to look like that shown in tv and end up getting old and wrinkled fast and greynig fast as a process of more stress......we are literally killing the golden goose. Thos who knows this (very few in number) are still happy.
2006-08-30 13:16:41 · answer #2 · answered by r_govardhanam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because technological development doesn't necessarily have anything in common with moral development. In fact, it makes it easier for people to be mean to each other on a huge industrial-type scale. When they had a battle in the 10th century, it was mostly a few hundred soldiers that got killed. Nowadays civilians get killed all the time from bomb damage, etc., and we take it for granted.
2006-08-30 12:37:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are we "much more developed?" I don't think so. Humanity doesn't seem to learn from its mistakes...for instance, we haven't yet learned to "live and let live." We're like small, unruly children, who when they want a toy push another child down and snatch the toy. If we don't like the way someone thinks or believes, we attack him/her. The world is filled with greed, gluttony and unhappiness. Children aren't cared for properly and neither are the elderly; we have no respect for either. "Much more developed?" I don't think so.
2006-08-30 12:56:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't technology and progress that makes us happy,although I will say that I could never be happy without air conditioning. Happipness only comes from the inside and our insides are becoming very screwed up with all the hormones they are putting in our foods. It gives us chemical imbalances and affects our moods a great deal. When I was a child, the grownups never had heard of ADDHD and bi-polar disorder. Life hasn't gotten any harder, in fact, it has gotten easier (because of technology), people just can't handle their problems as well as they used to. The most important factor, if you ask me (and you did) is that we have asked God to step out of our lives. He's no longer welcome in court rooms, public offices, or even schoolrooms. Trust me when I tell you, as a people, we are only going to become more and more unhappy.
2006-08-30 11:56:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe because our smart people are occupied making plasma televisions while the middle east is blowing itself up, climate is changing on a massive and possibly irreversible scale, oil is inevitably going to become scarce, clean water is becoming more expensive than oil, population growth is nearing out of control, AIDS has become a pandemic, and military might is proving to have a cost beyond our resources.
2006-08-30 11:50:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am much more developed in every manner than I was as a child, but am I happier?
2006-08-30 13:59:56 · answer #7 · answered by Abhishek Joshi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though all the machines have been made to help the mankind...they are in a way increasing differences......I'll explain this to you with a simple example.....Before e-mail people used to write letters with a lot of love and greetings but now they send emails which are very breif and cut down .... tese little things matter I suppose...
2006-08-30 12:06:29 · answer #8 · answered by (^_^) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are not developed in every manner. We don't feel safer, our children are not safer and there are still no guarantees about anything. Every day we discover new horrors we never dreamed of existed.
2006-08-30 21:06:25 · answer #9 · answered by flugelberry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Due 2 lack of satisfaction, High expectations, being over ambitious, thats it.
Reduce demands & needs 2 overcome, ride the roost.
2006-08-30 14:00:10 · answer #10 · answered by JD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋