what do you think the next step of conciousness will be?

Originally Posted by Farfenugen

Fuck that shit, I'm going to be a luddite, live in nature, live off the land like we were meant to. No more technocrapology.

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Originally Posted by Farfenugen

Fuck that shit, I'm going to be a luddite, live in nature, live off the land like we were meant to. No more technocrapology.

Not me. I am soft. I am addicted to:

-libraries
-dentists
-electricity
-frozen food
-paved roads
-plumbing
-plastics

I am soft ... and unrepentant. cn

Originally Posted by cannabineer

Not me. I am soft. I am addicted to:

-libraries
-dentists
-electricity
-frozen food
-paved roads
-plumbing
-plastics

I am soft ... and unrepentant. cn

good list for mine i'd add some more

clothes
shoes
houses including walls, windows, roofs, doors
fire
farming

pretty much everything about our world is "technology" the only way you can get away from it is if your a wildman naked in the woods catching your food with your bare hands and ripping the raw flesh from the bones with your teeth

Originally Posted by ginjawarrior

good list for mine i'd add some more

clothes
shoes
houses including walls, windows, roofs, doors
fire
farming

pretty much everything about our world is "technology" the only way you can get away from it is if your a wildman naked in the woods catching your food with your bare hands and ripping the raw flesh from the bones with your teeth

I didn't consider your addenda because they have been with us (probably) since the last ice age ended. I'm assuming that in his quest to re-experience Walden, Farfenugen would not exclude old (pre-Bronze Age!) tech like that.

I otoh am quite enamored of tech that was unknown before the Industrial Revolution and its societal consequences. I'll add telephones to the list, and ambulances. cn

I would like to add, video games.

Never fell for video games. but i do like ELECTRICITY. and I don't like sleeping outside on the ground. plus bugs suck

Originally Posted by Zaehet Strife

I think the next step in human evolution is our choice, we hold the key to unlock the door. I think the first step is when everyone can come to terms with absurdity, and still find enough meaning in ourselves to continue to live. I think once/if this step is made on a mass scale, the sudden realization of what we have been doing to ourselves and our planet will hit us, and hit hard. If we could only understand the absurdity of the human condition, i think we would finally make the step we should have been making a long time ago to help everyone in the world be healthy, have a place to sleep, food to eat, clean water to drink for everyone. This is all possable and more, but everyone is so worried about what to believe, its like we are all still children, its like the human race is in its child stage, arguing and fighting over things that hold no relevance over what is actually important in the world.

I would love to feel the same way, but, I feel like this is not addressing the "greed" element.

I mean is greed irrational? I don't think it is.

Greed is the reason a drowning man fights for breath