Will Humans Ever Stop Inventing?
Humanity keeps inventing more and more because it wants to achieve a serene and good life.
However, the opposite happens. Take nuclear energy, for example. We say it is for peaceful purposes, but at the same time, it has the power to enact mass destruction and death in a moment.
The reality is that we humans cannot invent anything truly good or kind.
The only invention that we could consider beneficial and eternal for humanity is the correction of egoistic human nature. No other invention or discovery would ever bring us happiness.
However, we first must realize that we live with an evil nature. It drives us forward to constant friction, dissatisfaction, and turmoil. The world today stands in confusion, no longer knowing what to do with itself.
We once believed socialism would save us. Before that, it was communism, capitalism, liberalism, democracy, i.e., one ideology after another. We had hopes that these systems would create a better world. Today, we already see how every attempt quickly brings us closer to realizing evil. No system can truly correct human nature from its egoistic state to an altruistic one.
For a long time, humanity was developing along a linear path, i.e., egoism was growing, and this would eventually lead to a new society. However, today, egoism has turned inward. We have become like one global village, interconnected and entangled in one another. Yet, humanity stubbornly continues its research and its inventions, refusing to recognize the evil within.
However, humanity will be unable to stop with its research and inventions. We will reach a point where humanity itself will say, “It would have been better had we not invented all this.” Just like today we already question whether discovering atomic energy was a blessing or a curse, so too we will regret much more.
It is written: “He who increases knowledge increases sorrow,” and also, “He who increases wealth increases suffering.” These words are more relevant today than ever before.
However, we cannot stop this pursuit of knowledge and wealth. Egoism drives us relentlessly. It will not let us stop. It keeps pushing us forward, not toward real progress, but toward the realization of our own evil.
We must come to understand that the world we live in cannot be fixed by improving it in an external manner. Instead, we need to rise above it. We need to change ourselves. Humanity will reach this understanding, and that time is drawing nearer.
