What has religion accomplished in the last 100 years? Diddly-squat.
And we have destroyed 90% of our ecosystem and lost social cohesion, with two world war and a cold war, plus Hiroshima and all,but at least we have xannax and know how many rings there is on saturn and how many forces there is in the universe.
If you don't like progress, go live in Afganistan. You will get all the social cohesion you so desperately desire.
You are correct af-newbie when you stated that the vast majority of humanity is ignorant.
The most dangerous manifestation of that ignorance is our insane and ill conceived push for power and technological supremacy. As a species we constantly ask can it be done? A wiser species would ask should it be done?
Our willingness to use violence on our fellows in the form of war coupled with the power technological supremacy provides makes the current human trajectory both unchangeable and tenuous at best. It does not take a genius to see that our society is in very deep trouble an out of control train running out of tracks.
It is insanity to work so hard to make this possible:
"Slaughterbots" | Presented by ALTEROr this:
New Robot Makes Soldiers Obsolete (Bosstown Dynamics)And those things are just the beginnings of what we are on the verge of unleashing on ourselves in our blind search of power without wisdom.
The Amish essentially have it right on this issue. We should be far far more selective and thoughtful with regards to our technology and technological advancement. Sadly the rest of humanity not only fails to understand their wisdom they often mocks them for it.
This Is How And Why The Amish Live Off The Gridhttps://www.makeuseof.com/tag/this-is-how-and-why-the-amish-live-off-the-grid/Amish are wrong on many things, including their abuse of women and children. Their insistence on freezing their communities in the 1850s is hilarious and tragic at the same time.
Trust me, you don't want to live off-grid. I tried it. You will break your back just to prove a point to yourself that you can do it.
Not to mention you will drop a shitload of money to set it up. Completely worthless exercise.
I agree with you that we have to be careful when adopting new technology.
However, we have no choice. The Luddite position or religious refusal is just silly.
We have to find a way to live with technological progress, be left behind or in the worse case be replaced by it.
Progress will happen whether we like it or not.