2006-10-20 03:24:56 · 8 answers · asked by gotalife 7 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Society isn't......and don't we dictate the need?
We get one thing.....and immediately come up with ideas about how to make it new and improved. As long as we are not patient and kind, progress will have to try to keep up with the need and demand.
And don't we run many risks with this type of mentality? Will the "new and improved" be a "quick fix" that is not really progress at all, but a masked production of something that thrown together to appease the demand. Something that will break down. Falter. And in a sense.......actually push back progress by three steps.
Progress should be patient. It should be slow......logical ....deliberate. It can't be pushed until its time has come. Until it is ready. Until it is proven. Until it truly is progress.... ready to move forward.
People are impatient. Progress should not be.
2006-10-21 01:58:49 · answer #1 · answered by Marianne not Ginger™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The question is really not "progress". Progress is the result of change, adaptation, and development. All progress is controlled and led by needs of society, science and curiosity. None of which are patient. A good thing too. Patience is the mother of stagnation. Impatience is the mother of invention. Ok, so is necessity, but in many ways the same thing.
2006-10-20 13:20:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The follow two quotes came to mind. Both from Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum) in Jurassic Park.
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
"I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you want to sell it!"
That pretty much sums up my feelings toward gratuitous "progress" in the name of the bottom line.
So I don't know if progress is patient but I can be pretty impatient when it comes to what convetional wisdom considers progress.
2006-10-20 15:51:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. the society's progress, especially technology, is at an accelerating rate, not a constant rate. thus we are experiencing changes faster than even before.
2006-10-20 10:26:32 · answer #4 · answered by cool nerd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Things happen whether you're ready for them or not.
It doesn't wait...
Sort of like a blessing/curse.
2006-10-20 10:50:34 · answer #5 · answered by falzalnz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but something's got to give.
You're listening to HYF this morning!
2006-10-20 10:37:43 · answer #6 · answered by Michelle H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-10-20 17:43:02 · answer #7 · answered by burtonstanley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-10-20 10:57:34 · answer #8 · answered by cruisingalong 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋