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>>6773137
>Having an abundant, regular food supply must be damning us to some 'equal and opposite reaction.'
Pesticides, droughts, pollution, erosion.... Agriculture supports a larger population, and the more people we need to feed, the more harmful the side effects of agriculture become.

>How about medical science?
The progress of medical science is partially dependent on people receiving crude, inefficient or even ineffective treatments and their doctors learning from those mistakes. Overmedication and dependence on drugs (like the BNW is dependent on Soma) can cause more problems than they solve.

>How about frickin' light bulbs, would being able to read at night doom humanity because being able to see after the sun goes down would 'remove one side of the spectrum'?
Light pollution is one of the major causes of urban stress, disrupting sleep cycles and obscuring our view of the cosmos at night. It also contributes to the deleterious effect cities have on their surrounding ecosystems; for example, some flowers depend on moths for pollination, and manmade lights keep those moths from traveling the way they otherwise would.


How can you make such large posts and yet have such simplistic views? The advancement of civilization is not a simple, pleasant thing. It is one of the most complex and difficult subjects for humans to understand, which is part of why so many books get written about it. On a related subject, the users of 4chan do not all fit your stereotypes. Your ignorance and arrogance do not make you an "objectively better person" than the internet acquaintances you blithely insult.