Technology isn’t creating a new world, so much as it’s pushing the old one to the breaking point.

Good and bad are not some cosmic dual between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. All the higher order social, cultural and ethical structures and inclinations; love, honor, trust, responsibility, respect, empathy, etc, as well as the negatives; hate, jealousy, distrust, etc, evolve out of this essential push/pull. So when we treat them as the ideal, rather than basis, conflicts become a race to the bottom, of us versus them, good versus bad. Rather then using particular situations as opportunities to further develop social structures and relationships.

It is not a zero sum world, but one that is feedback generated and when we react negatively, it creates negative feedback.

The real tension in life is between the multitudes of desires driving us, versus the need to decide among them. The heart versus the head. We can’t have our cake and eat it too. Short term desires and longer term goals don’t always agree. Not every acorn gets to be an oak tree.

Yet without that bottom up drive, the forms it manifests cannot exist. It is the desire that give the objects of desire meaning.

We will always be fluctuating between the two. Youth and age. Liberal and conservative.

It doesn’t take technology to understand this, just a little more intellectual maturity.