alt Hacker NewsOh boy, I don’t know about this one. You are born into a body that is so complicated we will perhaps never understand how all of it works. Our society if anything wrangled so much of the chaos of the natural world. It’s hardly simple to live in a world where you are under constant threat from animals, and other humans.
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the__alchemist • yesterday at 10:03 PM
My reaction too, starting with the picture of dense vegetation at the top of the article!
Technology has always existed. The people that lived in nature had no idea how it worked. To them, a plow was technology and I’m sure there were people complaining about it. We only understand nature now because of technology.
I’ll take scrolling myself to death at 80 over smallpox and dying of a trivially curable infection at 40 every time.