WHAT CIVILIZATION HAD COST HUMANITY
Flip over the beauty of technological advncement together with urbanization, there lies deeper truths abouth the consequences of evolving as humans mixed with the absence of absolute freedoom coupled with our decision making errors; where less relevant things are priortised than the very cogent aspects of mankind.
Before the Blockchain technology and the emergence of Cryptocurrencies, there was a world outside internet and web; a life free of cyber attacks and political propagandas encrypted subliminally into the minds of innocent citizens through the contents of the internet.
This and several other things are some of the tiny prices we pay day-in day-ou for the advancement into this present World
ILLUSTRATING THE COSTLY PRICE OF CIVILIZATION BELOW
SLAVERY
This was the first and earliest menace of advancement. Humans were traded for Gold and Silver as demostration of power and affluence, then used to work- to make more Gold, to build/develop communities. This unluckey ones, as i always refer to the Slave Victims are the first set of "Machines" used to work.
Machines to work the street, massive farmlands-to produce seeds and dairy products, to build roads and rail Tracks, to build houses and to trade. The early slaves paid a huge chunck of the price of advancement in humanity!
WAR
Civil War, Cold War- Nations against nations, Genocides and several appalling scenarios no one could ever imagined had taken place, there had also been many do-overs in the present days decades. In Afghanistan, In Syria, In Nigeria (Civil war, Insurgencies "Boko Haram"), war against crime, war against corruptions and many more are the thousands of Blood Shed as price for civilization, and this has and still a threat to the same civilization that had brought this evil upon human.
In the name of Civilization, Supremacy; weapons of war and mass destruction are valued above human lives. Billions of Dollars is sent on war both in present days and in centuries past and all for what?
...Conquer all and dominate- Expand and Reign Supreme...
ENVIROMENTAL DEGRADATION (Atmospheric pollution, Deforestation)
Global warming:
Our atmosphere isn't clean anymore, not a present day damage but centuries of bombardment of by products of human activities. Several countries are battling air pollution which is decreasing life expectancy in this various Geo-locations.
Many years of Road construction, Fossil fuel mininuing and Gas flaring, deforestation (Forest burning) very common to tropical rain forests to make space for more human activities had accumulated in the atmosphere for a long time depleting the Ozone layer- our only protection against UV rays from the Sun.
This killing of vegetations (Deforestation) had worsen the matter. We are more concerned about timbers/woods than the Air we breath in through Photosynthesis process that plants undergo to hep human respiration systems.
DISEASE OUTBREAKS
HIV Aids, Ebola, SARs etc are modern days threats to life, for whatever reasons behind this deadly diseases surfacing remains a myth, but from multiple Conspiracy Theories; it was assumed that this are some scientific experiment gone wrong or an intentional act of wickedness as they are referred to!
This evil has now found its ways into mordern day, killing thousands in it's wake.
Yesterday, they found a cure and Today it was a hoax had been media headlines, before advancement in civilization;it was a health hazard free universe!
SURRENDERING OUR SUPREMERCY TO TECHNOLOGY
It is the era of AI, everything is been programmed and remotely controlled. Thousands are loosing their likelyhood to Robots as many Manufacturing and production processes are been computerized.
AI will not have any need to eradicate humans as much as we don't have any need to eradicate Birds, Bees or any other living organisms that sustain oudr Eco-system- from the latest post by @kyriacos - A.I Will Accidentally Emerge Through The Blockchain find time to read this awesome piece
I wish to argue this out with this much experienced and knowledgeable Steemian's statement, we as human do not have the need to eradicate this organisms because we have not the same level of intelligence, hence there is no competition. What about some extincted animals? We killed them all because they are either threats to us or we compete for same resources.
Same thing goes for Artificial Intelligence, two highly intelligent entities can not co-exist; one must wipe the other out!
We have seen that today, as many processes are now automated with AI, leaving scores jobless and helpless in the aftermath.
What other prices have we paid to get to where we are today? If there is no other, then we have certainly overpaid for what we have!
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Even in civilization I still believe we are still slaves to some certain people, I think they call it modern day slavery. Intelligence is being compared also, animal extinction was as a result of us seeing them as threats and nothing more!
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Hmmmm.
This is an interesting post.
My Oga, let me speak for civilization.
In time past, there has been more war both civil and military than now.
We are in the most peaceful era, when we take a look at our religious books and histories,we can see that.
Another thing is that the advent of machines contributed to the death of slavery in the world.
Thanks for pointing it out in the post.
Disease outbreak: civilization had provided solutions to more diseases than number of diseases that it has caused.
All these said, I can't buy agree with you that civilization has caused us some harms like the global warming but hopefully, the same civilization will find a solution to it soon.
Other issues civilization has caused is that people are no longer humans. We aren't original, an average human now spends more time with his/her phone than a fellow human being.
Civilization has caused both good and bad and it remains a matter of debate to decide whether it had caused more harm or more good.
Thanks for this nice piece sir.
Dear @composer bless you for reading through to the end.
The Score now is 1-1
You know it is in our quest to advance that was when War kicks in.
In our quest for Scientific breakthrough that was when some deadly viruses were made.
Global warming was was from majorly from our quest for more resources- Oil, Water Pollution etc.
Before machine came, slaves did all the gruesome work.
So this are the prices paid my dear brother/sister.
It's nice to be here again cap, if i must say, I think humanity still have a little more to pay. I am the THE BAT
You are one smart and intelligent man brother, i can imagine how deeply you have thought o this response...
I have a fear and i wish the fears do not come to past in the nearest future, but till then i am embracing civilization to the fullest!
Thanks cap.
Well put! When you put large groups of people together (Urbanization), even homogenous societies, a profound decline in empathy occurs. This makes crime rates go up. In small cultural groups where everybody knows each other- the opposite happens. It's much harder to feel for people that you don't know.
Thanks you my friend, individual differences and cultural background and factor that kills Civilization.
Amen Brother! By the way- check my blog. I posted the first part of Night Gods III today!
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You really made a very interesting post to read. We are in the technology age, everything is more or less not dependent on human again. However, we have the good and bad side of it all. I hope we would not forget that our world is incomplete without humans doing things naturally.
Thank you my brother, i hope we won't surrender all our supremercy to Technology- and i Hope AI doesn't take it from us like Terminator stories...
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@oluwoleolaide man you're so versed. Negative effects of civilization are so deadly that we may all go into extinction some day. I wish leadership at various levels would read this masterpiece and begin to wake up to theinsresponsibilities to come up with right policies to actually check this menace. Thanks for sharing
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Hi friend very true, human are the root cause of destruction of everything. Envirnmental problem, extinction of spices all are man made activities, which disrupt our existence of future worlds. Thanks for sharing such a great post, how are you doing, have a happy time friend.