From Atlas Shrugged to Idiot America, from The Omnivore's Dilemma to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Axemaker's Gift ... I can't help but think that they're all connected, all rooted to the same problem or set of problems.
The basic premise seems to be that science has gotten itself into quite an interesting predicament today. It thrives when it's convenient and/or makes money for the consumer, but utterly fails where it matters most in terms of preserving our health and our environment... mostly because the latter requires a fair bit of inconvenience on our part. But the writing on the wall across all these places is that we're on a road to self-destruction, both because of and in spite of our continual advances in science and technology.
Or maybe I'm just drawing a whole bunch of connections that don't really exist. Science by nature is impartial to one or the other. It is the human that drives and uses it that does either harm or good to us and our environment. Laziness and ignorance are the two biggest crimes we're committing against ourselves, and science has merely been a tool to performing these crimes.
I was planning on writing more on this. Maybe I will in a bit, but for now I have a computer game to play and a fast food dinner to finish.
Monday, January 7, 2008
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