ITellYouHhwut
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I’m going to deviate from my usual topics here, and discuss a subject that I think is a big issue for me. I think the world is currently in some sort of transitional phase now in which, at least for those of us in the US, we will start to increasingly see things change so drastically that we will not recognize this new world from the world we remember when we were younger. For this thread, I’m going to set aside the topic of immigration and demographic change, and focus only on the changes in lifestyle and technology that are ever taking place nowadays.
For me, I’m only 28, but I’m a very simple guy. I’m not a “technological” person. I’m very old school for the most part. Yes, this may make me seem hypocritical since here I am using a smart phone to type this out, but I’m also not a caveman either. I do use some technology. I personally think there is a limit to which we need technology in our everyday lives. I think it’s all starting to become excessive now. All the new gadgets and tech they’re just pushing on us constantly. I honestly can’t say that it has done more good than harm for us since we’ve been in this “digital/smartphone/social media” age. I often wish we could go back to the days like when I was growing up and throughout my teens, when we just had landline telephones, flip phones for emergencies, and simple desktop computers at home. I think that was the best of all worlds. We were plugged in to some extent, but not excessively. It still had the feel of the old simpler world the way it used to be. We were undoubtedly happier and better off as people back when things were simpler. I can at least speak for myself and say that I was.
Lately this has made me think about the future I see unfolding now, and how I’ve pretty much rejected it. I won’t be getting into all of this “Alexa, Google Home, AI, augmented reality, virtual reality, autonomous vehicles” stuff etc... I also don’t agree with replacing human labor with machines. I think we are setting ourselves up for immense problems down the line that are already visible today. I think there is a limit to which we need technology in our everyday lives. There is a balance. The world we are creating is one that I like to call “hyper-technological”, meaning that it’s just excessive. We don’t need self-driving cars, or robots that do everything for us including wiping our butts. It almost feels as though it’s gotten out of hand already, and the elites in these multinational tech companies just want to ramp up all of this fluff so they can sell us all of these gadgets and nonsense that we don’t really need. I do believe that they’re intentionally trying to dumb the general public down so we will just be these mindless consumers with 85 IQs just buying up all the dystopian devices and crap they try to push on us. When I look around now, that’s all I see around me is just a bunch of lame-brained, low-IQ morons walking around eating up all the fluff that is being sold to them, whether its the gadgets, or all of the garbage pop culture (music, movies, and TV shows) they push on the masses these days, and 99% of the dumbed-down people out there have no idea what is being done to them, and trying to explain or convince them of that is pointless. Might as well tell a dog not to bark.
If you look at how the tech companies are subsidized heavily by the government, and you really pay attention to the biases they tend to have in favor of particular political parties, you can very much see that the technology they sell is being used in a very deliberate and calculated manner so as to control the public. May sound like a conspiracy, but I think that the people who think that don’t seem to realize human nature. If you think for a second tyrants will not use this stuff to exploit the masses for power, then you’re incredibly naive to put it kindly.
Moral of the story, I think I will be rejecting the modern world as it begins to pan out the way it’s heading. I don’t care if I’m the last person on the planet without a self-driving car, I’m not using them. I won’t allow those alexa devices in my house either. All the dystopian stuff aside, I just prefer the simpler way things used to be. Life was funner and better back then in my personal opinion. I’ve got my PPL, and I like to do that as a hobby. At the end of this year I plan to buy me some wings, and I plan to keep on pursuing that. I wholesale abandoned all contemporary popular culture well over a decade ago when I was just in my early teens. I knew something wasn’t right even back then but didn’t quite know what it was. Now that I’m older I feel I understand things better. I think I’m done “progressing”. For me, substance, purity, and beauty in culture is much more important than this false sense of innovation and consumerism which I think is actually making us worse off. That’s it.
Thanks for reading.
For me, I’m only 28, but I’m a very simple guy. I’m not a “technological” person. I’m very old school for the most part. Yes, this may make me seem hypocritical since here I am using a smart phone to type this out, but I’m also not a caveman either. I do use some technology. I personally think there is a limit to which we need technology in our everyday lives. I think it’s all starting to become excessive now. All the new gadgets and tech they’re just pushing on us constantly. I honestly can’t say that it has done more good than harm for us since we’ve been in this “digital/smartphone/social media” age. I often wish we could go back to the days like when I was growing up and throughout my teens, when we just had landline telephones, flip phones for emergencies, and simple desktop computers at home. I think that was the best of all worlds. We were plugged in to some extent, but not excessively. It still had the feel of the old simpler world the way it used to be. We were undoubtedly happier and better off as people back when things were simpler. I can at least speak for myself and say that I was.
Lately this has made me think about the future I see unfolding now, and how I’ve pretty much rejected it. I won’t be getting into all of this “Alexa, Google Home, AI, augmented reality, virtual reality, autonomous vehicles” stuff etc... I also don’t agree with replacing human labor with machines. I think we are setting ourselves up for immense problems down the line that are already visible today. I think there is a limit to which we need technology in our everyday lives. There is a balance. The world we are creating is one that I like to call “hyper-technological”, meaning that it’s just excessive. We don’t need self-driving cars, or robots that do everything for us including wiping our butts. It almost feels as though it’s gotten out of hand already, and the elites in these multinational tech companies just want to ramp up all of this fluff so they can sell us all of these gadgets and nonsense that we don’t really need. I do believe that they’re intentionally trying to dumb the general public down so we will just be these mindless consumers with 85 IQs just buying up all the dystopian devices and crap they try to push on us. When I look around now, that’s all I see around me is just a bunch of lame-brained, low-IQ morons walking around eating up all the fluff that is being sold to them, whether its the gadgets, or all of the garbage pop culture (music, movies, and TV shows) they push on the masses these days, and 99% of the dumbed-down people out there have no idea what is being done to them, and trying to explain or convince them of that is pointless. Might as well tell a dog not to bark.
If you look at how the tech companies are subsidized heavily by the government, and you really pay attention to the biases they tend to have in favor of particular political parties, you can very much see that the technology they sell is being used in a very deliberate and calculated manner so as to control the public. May sound like a conspiracy, but I think that the people who think that don’t seem to realize human nature. If you think for a second tyrants will not use this stuff to exploit the masses for power, then you’re incredibly naive to put it kindly.
Moral of the story, I think I will be rejecting the modern world as it begins to pan out the way it’s heading. I don’t care if I’m the last person on the planet without a self-driving car, I’m not using them. I won’t allow those alexa devices in my house either. All the dystopian stuff aside, I just prefer the simpler way things used to be. Life was funner and better back then in my personal opinion. I’ve got my PPL, and I like to do that as a hobby. At the end of this year I plan to buy me some wings, and I plan to keep on pursuing that. I wholesale abandoned all contemporary popular culture well over a decade ago when I was just in my early teens. I knew something wasn’t right even back then but didn’t quite know what it was. Now that I’m older I feel I understand things better. I think I’m done “progressing”. For me, substance, purity, and beauty in culture is much more important than this false sense of innovation and consumerism which I think is actually making us worse off. That’s it.
Thanks for reading.
Not something for people scared of flying though! 
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