Progress

I don’t believe in progress, in fact I think that is non-existent. The reasons which have lead me to think so will be developed through the following lines.

First of all, nature and human beings. When human were on their childhood, their boasting aptitudes and their intelligence, produced on them the desire to control their environment. Then they begun their technological adventure, just by creating the first stone –made tools, or learning how to use fire. Since those first creations we’ve been improving our devices till get computers and mobile phones, but . Are we really progressing?

Answering to the question which was set up a the end of last paragraph, when we talk about progress we usually refer to our devices development along the time, and usually mixing it up with social changes.I think that moral progress might exist, but not technical or scientific one. The main reason of this thought is that the main goal of progress is impossible to achieve: Inmortality. Being immortal would be as boring as being a stone. Simply we can't imagine an immortal creature, because for us life is closely related to death, each action of living beings is related to the avoidance of our sad end. Having this thing on our mind we go on studying what we call progress.

Another question to be studied is creation. Progress, means new ideas or new world-conceptions, from which different life-styles are born. In my opinion the creation of ideas is simply impossible. Our knowledge is given by our experiences with nature; we can’t imagine anything non-existant because all our mental skills just mix nature elements or thoughts up to bring composites which seem new.But average people progress conception is based on the comparison between two periods of time, in which their is better. Yes, it’s true that we live more than caveman did, but nowadays we aren’t content with our lot, we think that our life-time isn’t enough. We just work more for live more, so we’ve got the same free time as caveman had. In order to make it easier, I‘ll ask you to think over a simple fraction: 1/1. If you double both number you get: 2/2; but in spite of having doubled the number we had, the result is still one. Progress is like consumerism, indeed we pull every thing off to achieve something, but when we’ve got it, we look for more without having enjoyed it.

To sum up, our life-style couldn’t have been achieved without the events happened before; so, Is our technology more important than the old one?Last argument against progress are devices drawbacks. Not only have we created a machine, but we have to solve the problem it creates. Technology is like a double – edged sword, each new hi-tech, has got its hitches as well as its bad effect on nature or humans, in order to sort this problem out we create more and more devices. Instances of this are natural disasters, caused by oil combustion. You will agree with me that oil fuels are one of the greater discoveries ever done, but look around you, your city seems mucky and grubby. We always procrastinate this problems , and our planet is really had enough . So, It’s really useful to create new devices if we’ve got to think about new ones to repair the first ones harm? In order to conclude, just think it over before saying that we progress, peer humanity’s history. I wish we had taken conscience of our acts, and at least we wouldn’t have cause so harm to our home.