A Penguin with a Book

How is it that two people can live without knowing about the existence of the other, and yet one day those two people can meet and forge a strong bond? That’s how it is for one certain couple. The girl goes about her daily routine, focused on making a living. Wake up, go to work, come home, sleep, repeat. Her days aren’t monotonous by any means; they’re filled with pleasurable activities, such as reading and crafting. However, the one distinguishable feature between her and all of her friends and coworkers is that she never considers love. It’s not that it isn’t a possibility or that she’s secretly waiting for some fairytale romance—she thinks that “spending one’s whole life, like a neuter bee, working and working and nothing after all” wouldn’t do (Darwin 84). More pressing matters simply exist. But life has a funny way of working, for one day hers flips itself on its head. The day her life changes is quite normal. She’s working the cash register in the small shop when he comes to che...

Technology is often proclaimed in society as wonderful, that it is progressing mankind to places undreamt of, that all will be better after progress is achieved. Societies try to acquire the newest technology in order to move forward into their vision for the future, typically a world where problems and disease are either gone or simplified and where humans can have easier lives. This advancement, in part, is rooted in scientific discovery and innovation. Progress claims to be able to accomplish more with technological improvements, probe the mysteries of the universe, and attain more knowledge, but better understanding does not guarantee the creation of a better world. Scientific progress, especially as it pertains to technology, is not moving humanity in a better direction, but instead is causing it to move away from what is good; it is not progressing humanity toward anything but the destruction of its nature.  Progress is seen as a path toward the improvement of humanity and th...