Ahmed says: ... "technical developments have made us myopic on this last criterion."
Or blind ... or indifferent (which is worse!) ... or ignorant (which is even worse !!) ...
It reminds me of the joke in "humor" which says (to something close):
"What do you think is the biggest problem (of ecology in this case), ignorance or indifference?"
The other responds: "I don't know, and I don't care!"
Money is at the origin of all this, it is the only greed that absorbs all the vital necessities, and blinds the morons we are!
We no longer wonder "what will I need?" but "what I want, there, now, right away". We seek happiness in futility if we do not live it in reality.
One example: alarming studies which show on the one hand that today's children are more and more myopic, stupid, fat (even obese), sick (declining immunity), thoughtless ... and another, an ever more marked imprint of technology in homes, at school which every day favors confinement a little more, the propaganda of egoism (I come back to the ego), the "normalization" of stupidity, the race to the bottom ... and yet, parents (maybe the same ones who complain about their kids' bullshit) who abound in the sense of ever more technology (since this is the norm) , by mimicry (Panurge sheep I could read), or as a means of showing its "success"
"I have silly kids, but you saw my last 'iPhandrosung 10.9, it messed up!'
The snake is biting its tail!
But above all, nobody to put a brake because the heads of state, we see it well, are at the boot of the great powers of this world that we infuse the poisons (food, medical, audio-visual and others) that we let us quietly in front of our screens, mirrors of our submission to this globalist oligarchy, reassuring submission for some as may be the religion. Stockholm syndrome?
An old Indian to his grandson: "Each of us has two wolves in battle. The first represents serenity, love and kindness. The second represents fear, greed and hatred. "
"Which of the two wolves wins?" Asks the child.
"The one we feed" answers the grandfather.
What did you feed in the end?
"It is not a sign of good mental health to be well adapted to a sick society" Jiddu Krishnamurti.