This effort to push precautionary measures to this degree appears to come from an irrational belief that humans can control nature if they just try hard enough, if we just all work together. What is forgotten is that no matter how much we separate ourselves from natural events, there will always be a limit to our control. We can’t stop e…
This effort to push precautionary measures to this degree appears to come from an irrational belief that humans can control nature if they just try hard enough, if we just all work together. What is forgotten is that no matter how much we separate ourselves from natural events, there will always be a limit to our control. We can’t stop earthquakes, we can’t stop tsunamis, we can’t stop contagions. Although we are the “pinnacle species” on the planet, we will always be subject to Natural Selection in some way.
Through our technology we have been so successful in staving off medical problems with medications and surgery that we have become delusional about how much power we really have over biology. We are victims of our own success.
“ an irrational belief that humans can control nature if they just try hard enough”
I think this is one of the beliefs that’s making our world so awful to live in. If we work in concert with nature, not against it, not trying to control it, we might find beauty, peace, and enlightenment.
This weird belief that humans are IT and that we can and should do whatever we want (trying to turn a boy into a girl for example or control the weather) is killing our spirits IMO.
Medical problem this society actually creates and then financially benefits from "solving". Our bodies are trying to adapt to the enviromental insults, but we are past the tipping point. Only those fixes that generate money are used and the rest of the people are left to suffer. Those who have preventative answers, at best, can't make any money, and at worst are cancelled.
"This effort to push precautionary measures to this degree appears to come from an irrational belief that humans can control nature[and that man is perfectible]"
This effort to push precautionary measures to this degree appears to come from an irrational belief that humans can control nature if they just try hard enough, if we just all work together. What is forgotten is that no matter how much we separate ourselves from natural events, there will always be a limit to our control. We can’t stop earthquakes, we can’t stop tsunamis, we can’t stop contagions. Although we are the “pinnacle species” on the planet, we will always be subject to Natural Selection in some way.
Through our technology we have been so successful in staving off medical problems with medications and surgery that we have become delusional about how much power we really have over biology. We are victims of our own success.
“ an irrational belief that humans can control nature if they just try hard enough”
I think this is one of the beliefs that’s making our world so awful to live in. If we work in concert with nature, not against it, not trying to control it, we might find beauty, peace, and enlightenment.
This weird belief that humans are IT and that we can and should do whatever we want (trying to turn a boy into a girl for example or control the weather) is killing our spirits IMO.
Great way to put it.
Medical problem this society actually creates and then financially benefits from "solving". Our bodies are trying to adapt to the enviromental insults, but we are past the tipping point. Only those fixes that generate money are used and the rest of the people are left to suffer. Those who have preventative answers, at best, can't make any money, and at worst are cancelled.
"This effort to push precautionary measures to this degree appears to come from an irrational belief that humans can control nature[and that man is perfectible]"
The definition of the Left and Communism.