Exactly. The whole purpose of civilization is to progress. Having to give up on information technology and other modern conveniences to concentrate more on efficient food production in the name of sustaining a world population in the tens of billions is the opposite of progress.
But we have to define a purpose, and technological progress at the expense of life is not progress (imo).
Currently everyone is merely living to amass the most toys and/or accolades they can, and for what?
Of course the leaks are on purpose, but not because of ulterior, motives of the purposes of distraction. People associated with the gov't leaked the info for their own personal gain (revenge, monetary gain, etc.)
I doubt it. None of the info leaked (at least of what I have read over) is anything that can't be easily speculated and or discovered through some quick google searches about the people or topics in question, wikileaks aside.
BTW, I thought everyone knew that p h a r m a c e u t i c s are more harmful than street drugs (with the exception of meth, which is synthesized from a p h a r m a c e u t i c a l.)
The actual information inside was that
properly prescribed prescription drugs are a leading cause of death in the US, and that is not including deaths through misdiagnosis and improperly prescribed drugs.
The risk taken to merely
alleviate symptoms is, in short, stupid, and yes, I can call pharma companies "poison peddlers".
@Der Morg: Regardless of whether or not you are working directly on anything involving GM crops or pharma, you are studying/working in that field/subfields (bioengineering/biocatalyst) and therefore a part of that group(which is what I said).
So what if GM crops have reduced soil tillage and irrigation? These are NOT GOOD THINGS. GM crops are synthetics, not organic, and the things that eat crops are organic, not synthetic. They are, and will have more, unintended (or intended, depending on how "tinfoil-ly" you want to get) affects, the least of which being deteriorating health in consumers whose bodies will not be able to process them correctly.
There is a huge difference between, say, finding new fuel sources (IE: burning things) and messing life itself.
@Jimmy: I am like 2 Math classes from having an Associates in Science (yeah I know, that's nothing), but joined the Marine Corps and haven't finished.
I have spent countless hours though doing personal reading in the last 5 years on history and politics from most angles. University education is overrated, since you are at the mercy of the instructor's bias and sources. I much prefer finding out new viewpoints and then doing independent research as I can.
If I ever do have the time to take advantage of my GI Bill, I highly doubt I would major in politics or history, since neither one give you any actual skills. Politics is the art of bullshit, and history is the record of events given/approved by the winning bullshit-ers.
yes, because where I work dictates what I believe and I am a mindless drone who can't think about things critically/logically. You're a troll br0.
