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Can Humans Handle Plenty Without Going Mad?
We really need to bring back analogue culture, because abundance, for all its gifts, comes with a cost.
Can humans handle plenty without going mad? Short answer: No. Case in point: The rise and fall of the greatest civilisations and leaders as they rose to power, peaked, overextended and eventually collapsed.
The ouroboros — the snake eating its own tail, is more than a myth or a symbol. It is a recurring pattern. As the saying goes, anything in excess is harmful. In this case, infinite possibility — or simply, more, is harmful.
Yes, even abundance.
[Author’s note: Those lines are from a previous article of mine where I promised a part two. Today’s article is a delayed delivery of the said part two. I wasn’t planning on giving this piece a preamble, so if you haven’t read the previous piece, check it out here. It’ll provide some useful context for where today’s discussion is coming from.]
A few days ago, while thinking about abundance, convenience, technology, and all the other things that seem to define modern life, I found myself reading about friction — the grade 7 science textbook kind.
The kind that explains why our shoes don’t slip while walking, why (or how) a pen can…
