How much do we need technology?

Now here is a conundrum. I am a Classroom for the Future Coach. That means I advocate learning in a variety of ways and often link those ways to realization by, organization with, or expression through the use of technological means. I admit that this learning mode is way cool, can be very efficient and eminently more interesting than some more traditional ways. And before you scoff, the work involved is intense and can more than often exceed levels of comparative learning with traditional methods. That said, I and most of the world for that matter can get along with a far less amount of technical wizardry than currently available. To wit, humanity has only been so “plugged in” for only a few decades. From all antiquity to the advent of “the new technologies” mankind got along just fine. And I dare say will fair OK after the societal collapse that the current political madness, of which no part of the globe seems to be immune, leads us into what will be a second dark age. In fact, those of us who cannot learn and excel in the traditional learning climate will be the lost crowd; and by lost I mean dead or worse, severely dependent. For all the understanding of learning available to us today, the lessons of the past are lost to so many of us. The reality of harmonious co-existence and prosperity through mutual respect, ownership, hard work, and a natural understanding that doing the “right thing” is accomplished by preserving a harmonious-co-existence. If it gets more complicated than that well, you see what the world is like today. Every culture eventually drowns in its plethora of rules. And what are rules? …the exceptions and caveats to behaving in harmonious co-existence.

Not all rules are so bad. What makes a rule not so good is a preponderance of them. After so many, each additional actually isolates a little bit of what heretofore was acceptable as unacceptable. Extend the number of rules to the absurd, the definition of government, and you eventually make natural behaviors unacceptable. Enforcing rules becomes an end unto itself. Creativity is stifled. Humans are creative by nature and as they have so often in the past, will invent the instrument to remove the rules, again. Draw your own conclusions. Can you learn from history?