Today I saw a few Facebook posts written by tech entrepreneurs. They consisted of deliberate words and glorified image of the future. However, in summary, they tried to argue ‘the world is changing fast and our company/team/etc has made this much of progress and you should try to catch up otherwise you are basically locking yourself in some antique museum’ kind of thing with very little information about what they are actually doing contained.
And this is not only the Facebook thing. These days basically everyone are arguing that they should be cared because their job/idea/research/etc. (potentially) improves others life. I strongly think that these promises are hallow or thoughtless. None of the series of serious historical debates discussing ‘what is a better life/society’ were conclusive, and some have even suggested that the question was pointless from the start. And everyone is aware of this. However, the same people keep promoting the idea of ‘better life’ and ‘better world’, which often irritates me.
One obvious thing that makes me sad is that scholars are not free from this flux of ‘progression’. Some aspects of this trend is understandable; since researches are funded from laypeople' taxes, scholars feel obligated to explain that their research will somehow contribute to ‘mankind’s great leap’ or such. However, we all know that another very troubling factor is contributing to self-promotion of scholars. That is, to gain fame.
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