Arthur Brooks

Yeah.

Well, or you should be really mad about it.

You should be angry about it.

You should be, you know, carrying a sign in the streets.

That's the tip of the spear.

It's actually what it is.

The technology is a manifestation of the way that the culture of engineering has given us this scientism, this conceit that every problem is a complicated problem that can be solved, as opposed to the most important problems, which can't be solved.

They can only be lived with and understood.

that a more human approach to what we're talking about is that there are plenty of complicated problems that we can solve, but the most important ones are the ones that we can't solve.

And that's what properly, it's interesting because that's what most of the Buddhist teachers will say that the wrong turn of the West was the scientism that said that everything is a solvable complicated problem.

Whereas what we need is a balance between complex and complicated.

The complex problems of the right hemisphere and the complicated problems of the left hemisphere, and they exist in a system.

And there are many things that we shouldn't try to solve because we can't.

We should live with them.

We should understand them.

We should leave them as permanent mysteries that actually give our life flavor.

But the truth is that, especially over the past 25 years in the era of hyperdevelopment of technology,

that is an expression of the idea that no no we're gonna hit the singularity man we're gonna live forever we're gonna be actually be able to figure out how to upload our brains we're going to be able to solve any problem with whatever app or doodad or or or

supplement or whatever it happens to be that we will have the scientific acumen to solve everything that actually is a problem in our lives and that's just axiomatically wrong and how do i know that because we're solving more and more of these problems and we're getting less and less and less happy it's the same kind of thing to say for example if we had enough therapists we wouldn't have any more depression well depression has tripled and the number of therapists has tripled

So what's going on here?