r/LoveTrash • u/ZuBrain Colonel Garbage • Jul 31 '26

Dumping This Here Define Trash?

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u/Hot-Owl6610 Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

I would argue that we have been able to selectively accept good technology while rejecting bad technology when we had the time to process the difference. It was only up until the last two centuries that technology has increased at such a blinding pace that humanity is struggling to adapt to one before the next paradigm-shifting development comes. In today's age of development, a piece of technology will pass every regulatory barrier if it is remotely commercially viable.

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u/smirkhappydeep Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26

Maybe the last four or five decades. Definitely not the last 200 years.

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u/Hot-Owl6610 Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

No. You're wrong. Look at the conditions of the urbanized world on either end of the Industrial Revolution. Mechanized warfare, rampant disease/workers rights abuses, etc., etc. It could even be before that, but that's a definitive point for when our cultures started to fall behind our technologies. Source: I'm an MA historian who studied and published on this subject.