How does technology support our “human condition?”

Question from the Internet:

“Are the technological advances doing anything to support the human condition?”

Yes, our technological advances always support our actual human condition. After all, technology is a tool, it acts and performs according to how we use it.

Our inherent human condition is selfish egoism, we make all our calculations and decisions and we act only to benefit and serve ourselves and to succeed at the expense of others.

Thus technology is used for manipulating, controlling, exploiting, and destroying others. Even our best inventions and advances — like food or medicine for example — are used for selfish profit, for weapons and to control whoever we can control.

Since, by default, we live and behave like cancer, our technological progress is facilitating and hastening our destruction and self-destruction.

But this is not the fault of technology. It is only the fault of the user and the desires and intentions we use everything with.

Thus negating, restricting, or destroying technology achieves nothing. Similarly, none of our political, social, or economic tools, changes, or inventions achieve anything good or positive.

The only way we could change anything is through changing our “human condition”, changing our inherent values, aspirations, and how we relate to each other and the world.

When we have learned — from nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system — how to exist and behave for each other’s sake, unconditionally serving the general balance and homeostasis in human society that facilitates life and positive development for all, our technology will also turn into being positive, constructive, creating and sustaining life.

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I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.