I keep finding these little stupid things in society I find really weird/stupid while looking under the perspective of a pioneer.
The first one has to do with exercise and food. I notice this everywhere. People need to go to gyms, for runs for pointless exercise, and lift weights to have healthy bodies. In the past this wasn't needed. People would run where they need to go. People lifted things all day. People worked in farms. We didn't need these rooms of exercise equipment to be healthy.
It's really weird to think about.
I would literally run places, like to work and school except for the fact that it looks weird in society to be doing this, as well you get very sweaty and smelly so it is also not ideal to society.
We are told to stop taking the bus and cars and to walk places or bike places. Why don't we run places? That makes the most sense. But society will still stare at that weird person running and then be disgusted by their sweat.
We've stopped farming (well not all of us). We don't have farms so where most of our energy would be expended (on making our food) has gone away. We grew organically, healthily. But now only a few people do, and they do it with the help of a lot of technology.
We are told to eat organic and healthy, yet it is more expensive.
What? So we pay more money for the natural things in life? Yes, apparently we do.
Instead of growing and eating healthy things and working in the fields like physically active and healthy people, we are stressing ourselves out by stretching ourselves too thin: working 9-5, going to the gym, the supermarket (to buy expensive food) and then eating it.
This is so weird. Isn't it?
The only benefit is if during that 9-5 period of time you are doing a job you love. How many people out there are actually fulfilling their dreams to the fullest and love their job? Not many.
So we spend money studying for years and years until we get a piece of paper so we can get a job that we probably won't like anyways and then we go to the gym to get the body we would have if we just farmed our food ourselves.
But this is just the society we have evolved into. We are so stuck on being individuals, finding what you love and doing it. Which is perfectly fine, and it sounds amazing but don't you just think it is a little weird that we go to rooms and use machinery so we can be healthy. We could've ran to work instead of drove our $10,000 car which we just put $50 of gas in. Or we could've just eaten more food that we grew from our organic beautiful garden and save a lot of that money (which wouldn't even matter).
I think we should've stopped developing technology in the pioneer age. But then again we do have so many amazing things. The ability to Skype with people, is one. We can talk to someone on the other side of the world, in an instant. The airplane allows us to travel to that person.
Technology isn't that bad.
Will we ever reach an end to our technological development?
When will technology be too much to handle?
Think about it. We could soon end face-to-face contact. We may never have to travel if we just have computerized versions of ourselves. It'd be cheaper to ship little robots to other places to represent us and video-chat in on them.
I mean, just the other day the power went out and I actually got kind of excited because I just thought "Yay! No electricity for a while!" and then I soon realized that I had to do something with my spare time other than watching TV or going on my laptop. So I read a book. With pages.
Technology is astonishing though. Just think about this blog post. You are reading it from somewhere likely nowhere near me on a device. Anybody can click this link to my blog or share it or read it. Anyone with a device capable of going to my blog website. It's crazy how fast information like this can spread now.
But technology has generally sped up the lives of humans, in the way that we can now accomplish more tasks in one day. By travelling by car we can go faster than by foot, we can talk to more people in one day and we can play a game of solitaire on the bus on our way to work. Really, something that simple people couldn't do. They'd walk to work and they aren't just going to push along a table on wheels with a deck of cards to play solitaire with.
But this is also a bad thing. We have so many different things going on at once and our brains just can't handle it. Lives used to be like wake up, eat, work, eat, work, eat, bathe, read, sleep.
It's too much now. I know there were a few months where my life was literally this:
Wake up
Eat/Watch TV (the only time other than lunch at school I was able to relax during)
Get dressed
Bike to school
Bike to work (do homework at work)
Go to the gym
Shower
Sleep
repeat. x 2 months.
I quit my job in the end because it was way too much.
Technology is both good and bad. What do you think about technology? When do you think it will be too much to handle?
The first one has to do with exercise and food. I notice this everywhere. People need to go to gyms, for runs for pointless exercise, and lift weights to have healthy bodies. In the past this wasn't needed. People would run where they need to go. People lifted things all day. People worked in farms. We didn't need these rooms of exercise equipment to be healthy.
It's really weird to think about.
I would literally run places, like to work and school except for the fact that it looks weird in society to be doing this, as well you get very sweaty and smelly so it is also not ideal to society.
We are told to stop taking the bus and cars and to walk places or bike places. Why don't we run places? That makes the most sense. But society will still stare at that weird person running and then be disgusted by their sweat.
We've stopped farming (well not all of us). We don't have farms so where most of our energy would be expended (on making our food) has gone away. We grew organically, healthily. But now only a few people do, and they do it with the help of a lot of technology.
We are told to eat organic and healthy, yet it is more expensive.
What? So we pay more money for the natural things in life? Yes, apparently we do.
Instead of growing and eating healthy things and working in the fields like physically active and healthy people, we are stressing ourselves out by stretching ourselves too thin: working 9-5, going to the gym, the supermarket (to buy expensive food) and then eating it.
This is so weird. Isn't it?
The only benefit is if during that 9-5 period of time you are doing a job you love. How many people out there are actually fulfilling their dreams to the fullest and love their job? Not many.
So we spend money studying for years and years until we get a piece of paper so we can get a job that we probably won't like anyways and then we go to the gym to get the body we would have if we just farmed our food ourselves.
But this is just the society we have evolved into. We are so stuck on being individuals, finding what you love and doing it. Which is perfectly fine, and it sounds amazing but don't you just think it is a little weird that we go to rooms and use machinery so we can be healthy. We could've ran to work instead of drove our $10,000 car which we just put $50 of gas in. Or we could've just eaten more food that we grew from our organic beautiful garden and save a lot of that money (which wouldn't even matter).
I think we should've stopped developing technology in the pioneer age. But then again we do have so many amazing things. The ability to Skype with people, is one. We can talk to someone on the other side of the world, in an instant. The airplane allows us to travel to that person.
Technology isn't that bad.
Will we ever reach an end to our technological development?
When will technology be too much to handle?
Think about it. We could soon end face-to-face contact. We may never have to travel if we just have computerized versions of ourselves. It'd be cheaper to ship little robots to other places to represent us and video-chat in on them.
I mean, just the other day the power went out and I actually got kind of excited because I just thought "Yay! No electricity for a while!" and then I soon realized that I had to do something with my spare time other than watching TV or going on my laptop. So I read a book. With pages.
Technology is astonishing though. Just think about this blog post. You are reading it from somewhere likely nowhere near me on a device. Anybody can click this link to my blog or share it or read it. Anyone with a device capable of going to my blog website. It's crazy how fast information like this can spread now.
But technology has generally sped up the lives of humans, in the way that we can now accomplish more tasks in one day. By travelling by car we can go faster than by foot, we can talk to more people in one day and we can play a game of solitaire on the bus on our way to work. Really, something that simple people couldn't do. They'd walk to work and they aren't just going to push along a table on wheels with a deck of cards to play solitaire with.
But this is also a bad thing. We have so many different things going on at once and our brains just can't handle it. Lives used to be like wake up, eat, work, eat, work, eat, bathe, read, sleep.
It's too much now. I know there were a few months where my life was literally this:
Wake up
Eat/Watch TV (the only time other than lunch at school I was able to relax during)
Get dressed
Bike to school
Bike to work (do homework at work)
Go to the gym
Shower
Sleep
repeat. x 2 months.
I quit my job in the end because it was way too much.
Technology is both good and bad. What do you think about technology? When do you think it will be too much to handle?
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