The Danger of Technology

It is the same with all their machines. Their labor-saving devices multiply drudgery; their aphrodisiacs make them impotent; their amusements bore them; their rapid production of food leaves half of them starving, and their devices for saving time have banished leisure from their country.C.S Lewis- The pilgrims regress

I had a conversation with my dad about how things seem like they are consistently getting worse and worse in the world. We are both fans of history and realize there are significantly darker times in the past than anything we experience today. However, things seem worse and worse. I don’t believe anyone today is more evil than anyone in any previous time period. The only real difference between us is technology. I am a very technical person. I have a very strong relationship with the internet and computers in general. Still there is a danger of technology. It’s allowing us to come up with better and better replacements for real things. Technology is a tool Satan uses to enslave us further. He gives us a fake alternative to the true desires of the heart.

how Satan uses technology

We are all enslaved by one core lie. You can have it all right now right here for free.

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.  “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me. Matthew 4: 8-9

Jesus came here partially to reclaim the earth because after Satan’s fall, he claimed dominion over the earth. Satan is offering Jesus something he is after and desperately wants but at a horrible cost. In Braveheart Long shanks gave the Scottish lords a similar choice but they chose to accept the offer. They bowed to the crown and their people were abused, taxed and killed. Their control over their lands was a lie, Longshanks puppeteered them and through their greed had control over their lands.

This lie has the same spirit as what brought Eve to take the fruit. You cant have it all right now at least. We all hunger for with that same desire. Satan capitalizes on this desire and uses it to enslave us. Satan wants to make your lives as fake as he possibly can. The more real things you do and experience in your life, the more likely you are to wake up and realize the sham we have all been living in.

Technology rules us

Every time we gain comfort and convenience through technology, we lose a piece of our soul in the process. We keep allowing technology to control how we live and change the pace of our lives. Before cell phones, you couldn’t reach people when they were away from home. No one could expect to be able to reach you 24/7. Now we demand that each other respond to us because we know that they can. What an assault on peace.

Technology is a tool that is supposed to make our lives easier. If used as a means to another end, its fine but the danger of technology is that it dictates to us how our lives should go or how fast we should work. I kind of like the change to working from home but it also takes away the sanctity of space and many other things. Social media should be a tool to help you find people in real life to be with and not vise versa. Technology dictates to us how we should live our lives but even worse, it replaces our deepest desires with a fake version of the real thing.

The fakes that rule over us

Lets go through some of the biggest fakes. Porn is a perfect example. Watching porn makes your brain think you are actually having sex when you aren’t. It has clearly negative physical side effects not to mention the spiritual. As a result, Young men lose the ability to even talk to members of the opposite sex. Sexual desire is an important driving factor in facing fear as it pertains to pursuing relationships and without it people don’t have the strength to even try .

Satan gives you something you think is free but doesn’t tell you that it costs your ability to do the real thing. It hurts me to hear of stories of couples and the devastation that happens because of porn. Men quickly start preferring their computer to their own wife and are not even able to get excited enough to enjoy sex with their partner. I wonder how on earth the fake could be better than the real thing but I think everyone knows it really isn’t. People pursue transactional relationships that are fake and superficial that involve an exchange of validation. I kiss your butt and you kiss mine. Its much easier than letting someone know you intimately but gives you the fake superficial feeling of being loved.

Drugs make people feel happy by hacking their brain to dump the right chemicals. Video games make people feel powerful and heroic when they are really just frantically pushing keys down in a sequence. Even a relatively harmless game like mine-craft convinces you you’ve made something magnificent with far less work when in fact what you made something that doesn’t exist. As you have probably heard many times before, social media is set up to give us validation in our behavior and all those notifications and likes give us a little shot that keeps us coming back for more. Even our food is artificial. I’m not a vegan or some all natural hippie but no one can argue that our food is getting less and less nutritious while getting more and more heavy in things that make our brains think it is.

Doctors give us medications that don’t always solve our ailments but stop our symptoms from happening. These symptoms like sneezing and coughing and fevers are our bodies way of dealing with whatever is actually happening. Even when doctors do cure a sickness they solve every problem the same way, by throwing a steroid or antibiotic on it that’s the equivalent of dropping a nuke to kill one man. There is no core desire of your heart that can’t be partially satisfied with a knockoff version. Our bodies and minds are constantly becoming more reliant on the phony bologna version of everything so much so that if the fake just disappeared we would probably all die because we don’t even remember what it was like to live naturally.

My mom tells me of a friend of hers that had a very young child that was looking for her attention. Her husband made her start keeping track of how much time she spends browsing Facebook and realized she would spend sometimes up to fourteen hours on there. Her small child was begging for her attention and when she realized what she was doing it broke her heart. This is the true danger of technology.

my fakes

My most dangerous fake is YouTube. I started counting my hours on YouTube with an app and I realized that on most days when I’m bored, I spend five to six hours just watching YouTube. On the surface all I’m doing is just dealing with boredom but I discovered there’s something more sinister happening. My favorite videos involve groups of people having fun together whether it be with video games or other things. They always look like they are having a great time and I know that at some level my brain thinks that I’m in on it. I discovered that I watch these videos because I’m lonely.

This isn’t all that different from soap operas for older women. They believe they know all the characters and get wrapped up in it because they don’t have any drama of their own. Its really depressing realizing that but this discovery has already brought out a huge positive. I already started seriously limiting my time on YouTube and though I cant work right now, I’ve established work hours where I cant watch until they are over. This makes me bored but its the good kind of bored that makes you think about all the projects you never finished and gets you motivated to start tackling problems. I have been working on things I haven’t had the motivation to actually do in years.

During this quarantine I strongly suggest that you limit your time on the computer and the phone and go do something real, especially if it involves being outside. I have made small steps in this direction recently and I’m starting to feel more like a human again. My head is clearer and I feel more alive. I like to take walks in the park and I started taking up woodworking again. Limiting your exposure to the matrix might be the best thing you will ever do for yourself. Don’t let the danger of technology stop you from using it but don’t let it rule your life .Yes its not easy weaning yourself off but its so worth it!

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