[Babylon]

Originally Posted by Esso

I think science is putting effort into the wrong things sometimes....Im sure there's more constructive ways people can use their intelligence and money than to come up with another boner pill or a way to put dog ears on someone while they take a picture.

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then again, this is the same society where a government spent millions of dollars to determine if Tom Brady knowingly deflated a football....the whole world is fucked.

Depends on how you look at it, because what you just described is the entire point of our capitalist society. Maybe other than the tom brady thing. I'm willing to bet money for every dog ear app or boner pill you can find there are new technologies coming up or horizons being bridged in medicine. You honestly can't expect average americans to cut out hedonism, it's never gonna happen. Middle class people spend about 50% of their cash on luxuries, wealthy 60%, poor 40%. So hedonism is a far bigger part of American Society than you'd think.

Also, the average american isn't all too intelligent (and most people actively live inside of a dunning-Kruger self-circlejerk so me, or whoever is reading this will likely fit into that average category) so before you could ever get slightly close to having everyday americans start researching cancer instead of developing dick pills for a quick cash-grab- you'd have to have some type of system (perhaps a part of school) implementing those values in people who haven't grasped them.

[Babylon]

Originally Posted by Esso

I think science is putting effort into the wrong things sometimes....Im sure there's more constructive ways people can use their intelligence and money than to come up with another boner pill or a way to put dog ears on someone while they take a picture.

---------- Post added at 09:28 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:25 AM ----------

then again, this is the same society where a government spent millions of dollars to determine if Tom Brady knowingly deflated a football....the whole world is fucked.

Depends on how you look at it, because what you just described is the entire point of our capitalist society. Maybe other than the tom brady thing. I'm willing to bet money for every dog ear app or boner pill you can find there are new technologies coming up or horizons being bridged in medicine. You honestly can't expect average americans to cut out hedonism, it's never gonna happen. Middle class people spend about 50% of their cash on luxuries, wealthy 60%, poor 40%. So hedonism is a far bigger part of American Society than you'd think.

Also, the average american isn't all too intelligent (and most people actively live inside of a dunning-Kruger self-circlejerk so me, or whoever is reading this will likely fit into that average category) so before you could ever get slightly close to having everyday americans start researching cancer instead of developing dick pills for a quick cash-grab- you'd have to have some type of system (perhaps a part of school) implementing those values in people who haven't grasped them.