Re:Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due...
by nonrandomstring on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @11:12AM
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> you didn't really answer my question
Fair remark, I brushed it off.
> when did this start?
It started when science and technology changed from something we do,
into something we believe in.
I don't think that actually happened any time around the Enlightenment
of even the Industrial Revolution, but we're definitely deep in it
now. I'll leave you to put the pin in the map.
Also, the cause and effect are not so simple. It's not as if we
changed our culture and beliefs, and then embarked on a century of
planet-destroying madness. Rather, like the sunk-cost bias of an
addict, we realised we are on a bad road, labelled that as
"inevitable", surrendered before the forces of "technological
determinism" and found we had no choice but to believe.
Fair remark, I brushed it off.
> when did this start?
It started when science and technology changed from something we do, into something we believe in.
I don't think that actually happened any time around the Enlightenment of even the Industrial Revolution, but we're definitely deep in it now. I'll leave you to put the pin in the map.
Also, the cause and effect are not so simple. It's not as if we changed our culture and beliefs, and then embarked on a century of planet-destroying madness. Rather, like the sunk-cost bias of an addict, we realised we are on a bad road, labelled that as "inevitable", surrendered before the forces of "technological determinism" and found we had no choice but to believe.
But that was a false choice.