Covetousness and Humanity
Well, I'll confess, I caught myself looking through stuff I really didn't need again. I like, technology, I kinda always have, so it's nice to spend hours looking through prices for the new macbook pros, seeing what they have done to the prices of the old macbook pros, browsing for a new mp3 player that I don't need, pondering whether I should buy VMWare Fusion and leave Parallels behind (I haven't fixed that problem yet, FYI), tracking prices for micro-SD cards, all sorts of stuff. But then I stop, and I'm like, whatamadoin'? I don't need that stuff, I can't use that stuff, I shouldn't really be buying that stuff, so, what the heck?
I guess I'm not really getting to a point other than technology is never going to take our human nature out of us. We can "engineer stuff to standards that don't even exist yet" but we can't take care of simple coveting, pride, laziness, etc. I just think it's interesting that one of the promises that technology makes that it is making humanity better and better is nothing more than something humans make up to make them feel good about themselves. Regardless of what you think of technology, you have to make sure you have other focuses in life, to balance yourself out and give yourself a real outlook on life.
Posted at 12:18AM Dec 05, 2008 by advargas in General | Comments[0]