Maybe science isn’t the answer

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I'll try to summarize:
- Maybe science has made it easier for us to hurt ourselves
- Maybe science has helped us protect ourselves from existing problems

Either way, maybe things are grim?

I think it's more complex than that it seems.

I don't think the issue is technological advancement and progress in science.

I really think the issue is closer to the culture and ethics using said technological advances and science to justify nasty things.

Like the idea of an inferior and superior race, when it's just some stupid generational and collective wealth thing and generational and collective trauma crap.

All collective stupid beliefs, all those stupid traditions, many forgotten where the frick it came from and do not understand that some of them was once an advanced or a necessary thing thousand years ago, yet is oppressive and backwards in whatever respective present.

Eugenics does not erase those crap.
Getting an advanced tech does not erase those crap.
And the knowledge of sciences does not erase those crap but uses said knowledge against another. Kinda like how an abusive idiot's ego uses facts to justify shite.


While yeah, science is not the whole answer...
... It's not the problem either.

I think it goes deeper than just the recent findings in science.
And the closest thing that humans would have a break through with it, is psychology and spirituality, one that can also integrate physics and maths.

And I'm not talking about the woo-woo crap.
I'm talking about not passing generational and collective hate, while not forgetting history and reasonings behind the foolish outdated irrational beliefs.

As much as individuals have their own cycles to contend with, so do people, so do places, so do systems...
Some cycles can span countless generations, outside the scope of our most modern findings about the whole history as 99% of all human history remains a history.


Why do people fight, past the idea of humans being fearful of the unknown, being instinctively territorial and being tribalistic?

Where did humans learnt that, other than being chased by predators and being very clingy over limited resources?

Surely there are countless ways had human progressed past making systems based on said instincts, yet got held back by hundreds or thousand of years, forgetting countless knowledge repeatedly, whether it's man-made or through natural disasters.



The way I see it, it's because humans are an entire species with an historical amnesia.

And they're barely relearning things.

Like how women are not inferior species with their worth reduced to a biological function (would that imply that said biological function made women superior at some point?), or how children shouldn't feel debt just for being born and surviving (instead of being a valued more than a labor resource or viewing them as someone to live through by someone else), or how most males are emotionally neglected (yes, I said neglected. I'm talking about the discouraged feminine traits and all that emotionality all because of the idea of tradition).

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The problem is not science, but the misuse of science. Humanity will tend to seek self-destruction. It can be seen in the past and will happen in the future. Science just changes the weapons/techniques that humans use to kill/hurt each other. Humanity needs a lesson in ethics, but then again, who will teach it to them?

AI might get to the answer of teaching ethics to humanity. However it may not get used by humans for good purposes in the end. It may take the threat of AI weaponized to bring humanity together. Time will tell either way.



A comment on history: WWI is known as the chemist’s war for a reason. One side started and the other followed. Both sides were guilty of such acts. The net result was humanity learned newer ways to destroy each other via chemicals/biologicals. Biological warfare was conducted during this time, but became overshadowed by chemical warfare. Inoculated treats were spread via airplanes to certain areas to contaminate enemy populations with diseases. This lead to further developments in the next war.

A nice and concise little realization I just had:

Much like western culture's been poisoned by tabula rasa / blank slatism I think there was a 19th and 20th century idea held by liberals that evil is caused by ignorance and that curing ignorance cures evil.

I can unpack that more later.