cardboard adolescent

you have to understand i'm speaking on two levels. i absolutely agree that the sort of research you do is useful and helpful and wonderful because it is driven by a desire on some level for love and harmony. i also recognize that there is a lot of science where this is not at all the case, where technology is developed simply to market the development of further technology, where we're told we need to keep upgrading because products are getting 'better,' where everything that is built is built to be obsolete so that we clutter the planet with useless items... we research into building more and more destructive weapons for the sake of 'deterrence' when really the better our weaponry gets the more likely we are to destroy ourselves. on top of this we keep tapping our energy resources, develop better ways of distracting ourselves from the problem, better ways of marketing products nobody actually needs... obviously there's a huge flip side to science where it's not being used in a reasonable manner. the larger problem is WHY do people feel the need to keep buying these new products, to spend money to look and live like superstars, etc. this to me is the destructive flip side of science where it used as a tool simply to satisfy irrational desires, and ultimately what renders desires like complete instant satisfaction or self-destruction irrational is religious 'feeling'. now you could completely disagree here and say it is simply 'reason' and i would feel no reason to argue that point, all i'm really getting at is that science needs a justification beyond science.