Do you think technology is destroying human society and human perception of the world?

Do you think technology is destroying human society and human perception of the world?

human perception by nature is destroyed, technology just repackaged it

What does it have to do with books?
Go fuck yourself

No, it's just destroying beauty and human perception of beauty. For the rest it's cool.

Technology is just a tool. Speaking of human society as one whole is too complex to merge with perception, the root isn't really technology in itself, it's more the addiction and general zeitgeist of being swayed and triggered into chain reactions and domino effects. More than ever in a collective, interconnected world, individual independence is increasingly crucial to form a proper judgment because you can't really be responsible for the perceptions of others unless you meaningfully want to change society which is a sensitive matter on its own.

Not necessarily. Technology help humans communicate and exchange visions, experiences and ideas. Even noise generated by trolls and other manipulators can't change that. I think we're closer to understand one another and stop fighting.

The internet has mentally castrated most of us, just look at Veeky Forums

When writing was invented, one of the leader of the time said that the technology of writing would destroy memory because people would no longer have to memorize myths.

what really happened was it caused a revolution in thinking because students could learn how to think instead of spending the first 15 years of their life memorizing some boring ass poem that no one know if it's real or not...it's why western education is superior to shit in asia, in places like egypt or india a person was considered well educated if they could recite the whole koran from memory, who stupid is that when you could just open up a fucking book and read it if you need to, instead of wasting half your life memorizing shit, i fucking hate people who take that stupid quote from plato or socrates or whoever like it's insightful, it's fucking stupid

that was just socrates not a leader

also psych research supports writing being used to enhance memory and alleviate stress and so on

socrates was just a pussy who scared of new tech, like your grandfather who refuses to get a cellphone because ppl are too materialistic or whatever excuse he has when really he's just scared his old ass wont be able to figure out how to use it or his little social security check won't cover it so he makes up resentful excuses about how awesome phones suck, same thing, how much of a faggot do you have to be to say writing sucks? seriously. writing is the greatest invention in human history and socrates hates on it? biggest faggot of all time

>some boring ass poem that no one know if it's real or not

you read the entire mahabarata? couldn't get through it? too long and boring? just imagine the poor kids who had to spend their whole youth memorizing it

Before technology
>live in a cave, hunt and gather berries like a fucktard all day long, think fire is magic, die from dysentery at 25
After technology
>whine about technology on a highly sophisticated device, in a highly sophisticated society full of highly sophisticated infrastuctural, while being connected to the rest of the world in real time thanks to a bunch of highly sophisticated machines put in space by smart men
Oh the cruel machines! I want dysentery back!

Yes, and It is a good thing

non sequitur

>you read the entire mahabarata?
of course not; i'm white

yes, and part of whiteness means thinking critically and reading books instead of memorizing them, whites rule the world because we know how to leverage technology, asians can only throw human bodies at problems which in the case of literature means memorizing books instead of reading and analyzing them

Garbage time is running out!

to clarify, people used to memorize things in the west and near east too. Iliad, Odyssey, the teachings of sophists, the Bible. . .

kids are too stupid to think critically about foundational texts, and doing analysis of a part without having a firm understanding of the whole is at best a waste of time and at worst academic malpractice.

I went to a private Christian elementary school and had to memorize Bible verses every week. Even if I don't remember them verbatim, when I think critically about a passage of the Bible I often recall the gist of a verse which I can then look up and draw upon as reference.

memorization is also good for your memory, language skills, discipline, etc.

I agree that it's pointless to memorize everything, especially as an adult, but some memorization is good. Also imagine if you got stranded on a desert island, I bet you would be happier if you had memorized parts of the Bible and some poems.

so glad i am not this dumb

>>live in a cave, hunt and gather berries like a fucktard all day long, think fire is magic, die from dysentery at 25
It was actually more like hunt and gather for 3 hours a day including cooking and tool maintenance, spend the rest of your day napping and getting laid and having fun and telling stories and playing games being healthy and thin and full of vitality and then dying at 70.