>>13838942>That shit has contributed nothing to my lifeEverything you consider "normal" in your life is the result of technology. Your access to information and communication, safety from various diseases, most tools you use, transportation, food, clothing, etc. Every single part of the modern economy and modern life is jam packed with technological and scientific results. The very devise you are using to post this message is a miracle of engineering, chemistry, materials science and physics. It recquires you to control and manufacture processes at the nanometer scale.
And last and most important - pursuit of knowledge and understanding of the world is what we humans do, its what gives our lives meaning to a large extent and what brings us a lot of joy and pleasure. It can be as pleasurable and profound as listening to a symphony, if not more, to work through a paper or a textbook, solve a problem, synthesize some compound, etc. It makes our lives less hopelessly boring and ugly.
