Progress depends on unbalance and disorder

Walking is a state of unbalanced body. Not to fall down, it takes a way. Technology is another state of progress depending unbalanced structures of human functions and relations. In balanced societies and cultures which are being considered as technologically primitive, what we see is lack of technology, but a state of balance and order. It is not surprising to see that great technological developments have appeared under most unstable conditions. Especially in the Industrial Period the Western culture has witnessed enormous unstabilities in social, cultural, ethical, logical, and aesthetic structures. During the period of "the immense technological alterations" world has experienced two large scaled wars with countless small scaled ones, large scaled hunger, and large scaled and ever increasing contradictions between parties with social and mental extremities from religious extremities to drug addiction and high depression. Hand in hand with these developing contradictions and extremities there seems to be another development which appears in technological area that makes us ask the question if there is a relation among these. Technology was once the vital element of mankind to survive in nature for he was equipped with the weakest properties. But today, technology has reached a perfection level above any natural entity including homo technologicus. And thus, the natural selection has become the technological selection. Once a servant for mankind, has become the master. Genetical reproduction is nothing but a manifest that only the ones selected by technology are going to survive. You can never find a naturally grown entitiy in human environment apart from the selected and artificially planted ones. Whole nature is nothing but a zoo for next generations. I as a member of an institution of technology and working hard to develop it am not suggesting an impossible turning back (to what?) or stopping everything. What I am suggesting is to "repair" our mental attitudes towards life with no threat on the others. If our attitude towards life does not depend on ethical, logical, or aesthetic principles we will only have a high technology selecting rich, wealthy, powerful and discriminating the rest including the nature itself. 0-7803-3982-7/97/$10.00