We as people live in a unnatural environment which has a direct influence on our values.?

Question

So when we live in an unnatural environment we then value things that we would not given that we lived in the natural enviroment that we as people where created for, so what I am getting at is that the demoralization, the destruction of this society or rather the destuction of the world is a product of this
unnatural world. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

as it is we are in a fallen world do to adams and eves sin .if you believe in that

Answer 2

A synthetic environment suits human beings who no longer have the will to live with nature. If we set up a dichotomy between Nature and Convention, we can begin to make simple corrections, but these "simple" corrections may seem "radical" to the majority. Thus, I repeat a statement by the most eminent thinker of modernity...

No less than a God can save us.

With all the distracting communication technology, how likely do you think there will be a mass movement of "inward looking" that is now necessary? This inward looking would pull our hyper-active economy to a near dead-stop.

Dostoevsky surmised that the Russian people were as a "collective soul", a superpersonal will. One must look at this type of thinking very seriously. It may hold a clue to our escape from "demoralization...destruction". My own theory is that we as individuals are responsible for this sad state of affairs because of our insistence on an exaggerated degree of personal freedom. And so I've come up with my own sort of mantra that I repeat to myself as often as I can.

More is not better; having is not living.

Answer 3

Actually I have some misgivings about the word 'Unnatural'. Everything on this earth has been given to us by nature - and there is hardly anything which humans have not yet affected in some measure. So in my mind everything is natural.
Let us not blame anything for demoralisation either. It is natural for the thinking mind with self preservation instincts to be selfish and scheming for self promotion. We have become more aware and sensitive that is all.
I believe even the early cave man who was not blessed with the scientific advances, too plotted against his neighbour in order to get the better and larger share of the meal and a more suitable sexual partner.