Lecture on humanity

I personally thoroughly enjoyed reading this lecture, and can easily agree with all the points that Isaac made. He understands humans so well and really to him it comes natural to him to just see that we are digging ourselves into a hole.

Now Isaac didn't only realize that our lifestyle is going to be ending us but he was able to predict exactly how it would effect us. Although the fact that his predictions are correct is quite amazing there really is nothing to celebrate about for we let all of this happen even with warnings. we have global warming. and we are begining to run out of energy and have made just bad choices all around. we can't really fix it but we can start changing now.

Isaac's humor really kept it interesting. The lecture was not at all painful to read and the humor kept your intrest the whole time as to get you to really listen to all the points being made. All in all he laid out the facts really hoping for a change to be made and he played his part. Unfortunatly his part was that of a man that we should have paid a whole lot more attention too.

Meaning- Making Machines

I must agree with Kristol. People need to feel as though they serve a purpose. Without feeling meaningful what reason do they have for trying or even living for that matter? Even if you think that life is a joke and we really should just be open and have fun then that is your purpose. When an entire community believes that their labor is worthless and carries no point then they will lose all motivation and nothing will get done. Humans need to feel a sort of reward for anything they do whether it be a physical reward or just to have their work appreciated, they need that reward or motivation.

Now if we are to look at this in a litteral sense then it would be clear that humans are infact worthless and meaningless. Humans are not forever neither is our planet our sun will swell and engulf our planet taking everything on it. When that happens what would have been the use of computers, education, lattes, or even existing in the first place? But We truly want to (and do) believe that our lives are meaningful because our lives are way to fast paced to allow us to dig deep into the purpose of every chore we put time into. There is also the fact that our generation will not live to see our extinction so we see no purpose in stopping or changing our ways so we continue about our lives knowing we will not be affected and putting the information far into a dark corner of our mind.

I realize i went off topic a tad and i apologize but all in all i do agree with Kristol in saying that we need to feel we have a purpose in life and can't be allowed to believe that we are nothing in order for us to function.