Does Technology really make us Unhappy?

[Tsyal Makto]

Damn right about consumerism! Have you by any chance ever seen Fight Club?

Though I still believe distancing ourselves from nature is another part of the problem. We're biophilic creatures by nature, and walling ourselves off from nature like the modern human does, is denying a fundamental part of our being. We need a way to advance, while still staying close to Mama Nature (afterall, we are part of nature). I have my theories, but pitching it to a world enamored with the dominant is near impossible.

I think the Internet has been both a blessing and a curse. A blessing for it's informational and communicational value, but at the same time a curse for it's, again, communicational value. Facebook might allow people to know more people, but at the same time keeps them from really knowing people. It keeps people from having the same deep, emotionally satisfying relationships that people could have if they met people in the real world, as it was meant to be. Social media has become something about quantity, rather than quality. I sometimes wonder how many people have walled themselves away from the world, netted several hundred online friends, but then has no real friends, in the real world, to speak of. We're trying to satisfy our social needs through a screen, and it's failing miserably.

In many ways, technology has gone from being a tool to being a lifestyle, and it isn't working out so well.