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 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."

References

Other Material

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