Difference between revisions of "Doing and Undoing"

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Full Title or Meme

The history of civilization is just one of the Doing and Undoing.

Context

Humans have been both extoling their own social history and bewailing the degeneration of their current society throughout recorded history. Some examples follow roughly in inverse chronological order.

Tech's Downward Spiral

In a Technology Review article^[1] we read a philosopher lamenting the current state of social media, like Twitter, being reduced to aesthetic poverty of the impending release of the metaverse from several of the current technology companies, or the inanity of the Artificial Intelligence bots which are becoming better and better at producing inanity. The philosopher is resigned to an environment that is not uplifting and is operating in the search for corporate profits rather than an uplifting life. When the philosopher complained online - they got a lot of sympathetic responses but no help if correcting the situation. Somehow the idea arose that technologists have abandoned humane innovation in favor of making a good living. Can we let society continue in the generation of darker innovations? This writer is left wondering why he is complaining about the state of the world.

The Solution

Remember Gandhi said "Be the change that you want to see in the world." And go to follow that advice.

References

1. ↑ Shannon Vallor, Tech's Downward Spiral, Technology Review 125 no 6 The Mortality Issue (2022-11) p.78-79

Other Material

• For a different view see the wiki page on the Second Law of Thermodynamics