Doing and Undoing
Full Title or Meme
The history of civilization is just one of the Doing and Undoing.
Context
Humans have to both extoling their own program and bewailing the degeneration of their current society for all of recorded history. Some exmaples following roughly in inverse 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 - he got a lot of sympathetic responses but no help if correcting the situation. Somehow the idea arose that technologist have abandoned humane innovation in favor of making a good living. Can we let society continue in the generation of darker innovations? The writer is left wondering why he is complaining about the state of the world. Remember Gandhi - "Be the change that you want to see in the world.
References
- For a different view see the wiki page on the Second Law of Thermodynamics
