Because of the "benefits" created by science, especially technology, except for a few people, the human world has almost regarded science and technology as the criterion. It not only uses it as a standard for measuring everything, but also uses it as a baton for various behaviors. People follow the guesses and experiments of scientists and engineers and set their own behavior patterns, while many traditional and not so in line with modern science are abandoned like bad things. The vast sea of science and technology is really hard to summarize, but if you look at it from a corner, it is not difficult to see its disadvantages.
For example, it was heard in the early years that a giant "floating island" was found in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Its area reached 1.6 million square kilometers, almost the same as the area of Xinjiang, my country. Its composition is made of plastic production and daily necessities such as packaging materials, waste fishing nets, ropes, etc., and it is incalculable. The marine organisms such as fish and birds ingested it, so there are countless people who died. The harm was transferred to the human food chain because fish eat this poisonous substance. Plastic particles were found in the bodies of many people who often eat sea fish, which greatly increased the risk of people suffering from tumors and other diseases. What's terrible is that these plastic products are said to not completely degrade within four hundred years. This has made people generally realize from a macro perspective that science - at least chemistry does not bring entirely good news. While it brings various conveniences, it also hides a bone-clearing knife behind it!
Chemistry has brought many good news to people: for example, gasoline and diesel power bring people to every corner of the world; for example, the increase in crop yield brought by pesticides and fertilizers has saved more people from hunger; for example, various artificial fibers and have made people more colorful clothing; for example, various plastic packaging makes cargo transportation more convenient, etc. However, the harm it brings almost comes with its interests at the same time. From headaches, dizziness, nausea, respiratory disorders, etc. caused by pesticide DDTh, to Minamata disease caused by pollution such as mercury and cadmium; from the retention of plastic particles in the human body, to the harm of Teflon, from water pollution to atmospheric haze. If you look at it one by one, it is really shocking and it is terrifying to avoid it.
However, we seem to be unable to avoid it. Just as after the broadcast of the documentary "Under the Dome", a scientist (perhaps a former diplomat, can't remember it) refuted: Do Chinese people have no right to develop?
Under the general premise of development, we must learn to tolerate many not so beautiful things. Fertilizers and pesticides have brought about global food production, and the increase in food supply has accelerated population growth. In order to meet the needs of more people, we have to use more pesticides and fertilizers - we are tied to a chariot that cannot be stopped! We had to take poisonous aphrodisiacs while driving the chariots toward the unknown future!
From this point of view, almost all technologies have the same process. For example, computers and mobile phones have brought us more convenience, but they have not brought us peace and tranquility, giving us more opportunities to see this vast world, but even the leisure to watch the moonlight under us is almost gone. It allows us to learn more about it, but it makes meditation, inverse, etc. a luxury, and even listening to the rain in the bamboo window becomes an unattainable and unnecessary poetry for most people.
The love of the group is like a wave. These pros and cons seem to have become irreversible things for individuals, and they can only follow this wave and run wildly. But if you look closely, you will find that the source of this wave is just a very simple thing: desire! People mostly follow their feelings and hold the hands of desire tightly. Your own desires have become the driving force that drives you to follow the waves continuously, and are also constantly promoting the power of the waves. Therefore, Zhuangzi said: "The five colors make people blind, five sounds make people deaf, and the five desires make people panic!"
. As an individual, it is not unimaginable if one is really unwilling to be surrounded by this wave. Laozi said: If you don’t see it, you will not be confused. The Vajra of Wisdom said: "If a person has no desires, he will be a saint; if a person has few desires, he will be close to a saint."We must realize that everything arises from desire is a double-edged sword, no matter what name it appears in - technology or anything else. The source of happiness is not the satisfaction of desire, but the reduction of desire; we do not need to go to Mars to avoid troubles and pain, we only need to observe our own mind at all times and everywhere. At the moment of calming our mind, pain and troubles will collapse where it arises!
