A Bad Apple

(http://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/11821)

that's where I saw it anyway

The rejection of “scientific progress” is considered to be for cultural barbarians. For people who genetics did not endow with the superior intellect or social skills required to compete for resources in the context of a modern hi-tech economy. These people are not suited for this society and they’re taking collective misplaced aggression out on its very foundation.
Or so some might say.
Could it be though the cold faux rationalism of modernity and so-called progress is actually a destructive force? Every repeated example of the perceived benefits of modern science can also be cited as the root of so many devastating consequences.
For example
People will often say the ability to produce excess food is a monumental achievement. Taken at face value, it sounds like one. Technically every could eat, but what’s the real cost of this? Monocrop industrial agriculture. If you don’t know the devastating consequences of industrial farming jus google it.
So the ability to produce more food and sustain lager populations is not beneficial in the long run, and it is certainly not sustainable. What being unsustainable means is it will be forced to eventually cease by circumstances beyond control. Circumstances are not going to allow society carry on with until Elon Musk comes up with something.
Let’s look at another miracle performed by science, the vaccine. Now everyone knows what a vaccine does. Thanks to this contribution an impossibly estimable number of people have gone on to live full lives when they might of otherwise have died in infancy. Again take at face value this sounds like a good thing. Now the problem becomes there are that many more people living on the planet and we end up with the circumstances that produced example number!
Just because you think you somehow understand science because you enjoy living with all the personal comforts, it’s afforded you don’t take that as a good reason to so fervently hate people who are suspicious of modernity.
 In the long run, even you have to recognize modern science has undeniably sewn the seeds of our destruction. If not by nuclear annihilation then certainly by another set of what are repercussions we are now certain to face. In short, don’t open the box, don’t eat the apple, and don’t touch the flame.