Humans can't live with technology

In my home OP the net started in 1990. I guess I was a maverick at 500 baud lol.

Technology is making humans dumber.

But without technology, we would not have been subjected to Greg's cluster B personality disorder. And ridiculous bullshit recipes.

I'm 56 and thus grew up without the internet, and indeed, many things that kids of the same age had (cable, dishwasher, microwave, clothes dryer) and we didn't. We also did farm work. We even lived in a little trailer with no running water and very basic electricity for a few years.

So I could, conceivably, live without technology as I've experienced variations of it already throughout my life.

R4 I should have been more specific about what I mean by "technology." I was born in 1979 so I grew up in the 80s and 90s in a middle-class family. We had 1 television, 2 cars and a Mickey Mouse phone. I loved watching sitcoms and going to the movies with my friends but I spent most of my time playing outside. There was technology in the 20th century but obviously not the kind of brain melting, culture destroying technology we have today.

The internet in homes changed everything. We started spending most of our time in front of screens and now our whole lives are ruled by technology. A little bit of practical technology is good. I'm not saying we should go back to reading by candlelight. There were also great quality tv shows back then. Something happened to humans along the way. Too much technology and too little culture. People now are empty shells. Boring, stupid and soulless.

What's the solution?

There were NOT great tv shows back then

I love the olden days but let’s be real

Maybe just a few Like Columbo

r5

[quote] What's the solution?

The solution is to refrain from being drawn into the boring, stupid, and soulless inducing things (and I'd throw in "unnecessary so-called conveniences" as well). If the solution being sought is how to keep [italic]others[/italic] from being boring, stupid, and soulless, that's a problem which has been fruitlessly occupying the world's great thinkers for several thousand years. Maybe the large proportion of stupidity is necessary to set in motion the dynamic for others to be better.

Humans have ALWAYS BEEN DUMB, OP

Perhaps this is the natural progression of things, and the necessary skills for surviving will die with the people who were born before there was something to consistently take up the bandwidth of their brains 24/7.

Maybe we're just following the natural order and marching on to an inexorable extinction of our own creation because we're becoming progressively more stupid, ignorant and ill-equipped (if not downright unprepared) to deal with life outside of this artifice.

We're doing fine and dandy thanks!