Embed Notice
HTML Code
Corresponding Notice
- Embed this notice@lonelyowl @houseoftolstoy @judgedread
> Humans already rely on tech more than on anything natural.
Because you have mistakenly separated the two. Domesticating the dog was a hundred thousand years, and we end up with these things that we like, and they like us, and we work well together and make good friends. We've shaped each other's evolution. Cats, on the other hand, are just ten thousand, and they go feral much more readily than a labrador. But we have found barbecue pits created by Australopithecus, 2-3 million years old: ashes, flint knives, knife-scored bones. So twenty times as long as it took to turn a wolf into something you can leave a baby alone with, we've been crafting knives and using fire. The course of humanity is inseparable from technology, we have been creating and using tools since before we were recognizably human. Our arms face inwards and our fingers are designed for leverage and manipulating small objects in front of us. Drywall and copper repiping and cars and wool-lined jackets are as much our "nature" as an anthill is an ant's.
> I am happily live in siberia at -40 not because i evolved into a walrus but because i have down jacket
Well, I ask if you think we're done evolving not because there's anything either of us can do about it, but because I think you will frustrate yourself without accomplishing anything if you put yourself at odds with human nature.