Our ultimate goal is to lead a happy life. A remote village person least bothered about the happenings around the world he may have minimal knowledge and he is leading happy life is it not enough to a person? Before inventing latest technologies people weren’t happy?
2006-09-13 18:13:37 · 6 answers · asked by reddy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Conceptually, such a person is closer to living in a "state of nature" and therefore closer to our uncomplicated evolutionary roots before complexities like fire, the wheel, cooked food, horticulture, hunting weapons, clothing, and more where discovered or invented. Life expectancy was late teens and disease was unchecked, except as by "forces" of nature (natural selection, organic biology, etc...). Yet, these same peoples ARE the ones who over time developed atomic power, space travel, and more as a yearning to learn and grow.
The villager is torn between his tie to the natural land and the intruding forces of urban society. He is not ignorant of the presence of such things, rather he chooses to ignore them as he feels he has no power to engage in such an urban economy. He is not purely happy, because he knows that he is locked out of the ivory towers due to ignorance. He too bears the pressure that urban society creates, only in a different manner that you have not considered. Happier overall? Maybe, but maybe not. Have you bothered to ask him about the bite that was never treated due to lack of medical care and healed wrong, the sister he lost to cholera, the tsunami that dispaced him and killed his family, the fire that burned his hut, the crop that failed three years in a row, the bandits that prey on his town, the rebels that invade from a neighboring province, the ethnic and religious strife between his village and the next, the village elders arranging his marriage to a violent partner, the traditionally sanctioned rape of the wifes of adulturers in the Punjab.....the list goes on and on no matter where the village is located.
2006-09-14 05:34:17 · answer #1 · answered by William P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were contented as people sometimes are now. The people in those lives are idealised by a lot of people now because they seem to have much simpler lives; what people fail to understand is that happiness is largely to do with having goals, whatever they may be and striving and attaining those goals. Those goals are automatically affected by our environment, therfore a person around technology will aspire for different things, but both individuals have the same presumable capacity for happiness. One environment simply requires more knowledge for the goals it inspires to be attainable.
2006-09-14 01:18:47 · answer #2 · answered by Jeremy L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're absolutely right. a person in a remote village can be happy with the knowledge he has.
BUT since the majority of people live in suburbs or big cities, we need to acquire knowledge to make the best decisions in our lives for our continued survival. To make sure we're not being stabbed in the back or being taken advantage of.
2006-09-14 01:24:20 · answer #3 · answered by ladyjeansntee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of couse they are happy, they just want to make life easier with technology. Without technology people will have wasted so many time on unnecessary thing.
Tecnology will develope either way. Whether you want them or you dont.
2006-09-14 01:34:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is required only to save your self and use brain what is right and wrong only
2006-09-14 01:16:08 · answer #5 · answered by name of spritual tantra horr0r 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no
2006-09-14 01:14:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋