Man continues on

While I touched on this my last post, I am glad I get a chance to elaborate on what would, and what will be necessary once jobs have the opportunity to be taken. While others may see this as a problem that needs solving, one who looks at our past to solve our future can see that humans will once again be asked to adapt. This time, however, what a beautiful adaption this could be.

Once we have the capability to take the idea of jobs away, the human race must look at why they created certain ideas. For starters, the idea of a ‘job’ was created for the idea that there is a task to be done and the only way it will be accomplished will be through the efforts of a human. This idea, if computers are programed correctly, could disappear all together.

This brings up another interesting idea, the idea of government. For centuries people have feared the power of this body of people we allow to have power over us in order to assure essentially that humans are happy. Through this the idea of currency and hard work sprouts. While we have some what made these ideas work, if all that is needed is computers, technicians educated enough to program these machines and laborers to build them, that’s all that there should be.

The “solution” to this so called “problem” would be to look towards Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” and destroy currency all together. Everyone shall have their needs met due to the fact that the government can meet them. For these needs being met, people shall abide by the moral laws the population decides on. If one breaks these, he shall be the mindless drone creating each of the machines.

As for furthering human minds, education will become as Buddhist Tibetan Monks view it. Because their food, clothes and housing is paid for and all they must do is abide by their monk hood, they study as much and as little as possible. This will ensure that the minds that desire knowledge will have all they please, and those who don’t, fade. Soon what separates humans from each other from each other is their education, which becomes more and more attractive. Soon only the brilliant minds get to reproduce, therefore creating a better human. 

Technology brings evolution, not agony

American society, along with most societies around the world, has been programed for centuries to focus on one’s niche or job ever since we evolved into creatures who have the mental capacity to use tools to accomplish jobs that are difficult for the average human. While considering this, the idea of having near future computer technology replace every niche we have created from the blacksmith to the doctor. In fact, much controversy has arisen due to this fear sparking idea. However, these fears can easily die as soon as one looks at the evolution of man in a chronological order and look to what the next step should be, according to our past steps.

What I mean by this is that what humans have done best through our evolutionary paths is make things easier for us by the use of an idea or object, something we named a “tool”. As early civilizations looked up to the bright objects in the sky, much fear was evoked, therefore to settle this problem, humans created religion to explain the unexplainable, something that still happens today in every society around the globe. Then, we needed to move objects much heavier than we could carry across large distances, so we invented the wheel and people stopped carrying things alone. Finally, we wanted a way to connect humans better, and the birth of the internet helped us with this.

We also have the tendency to always need to get better at what we do now, something to be proud of, of course. This explains complex religions to explain more complex questions, cars and trucks to move anything we please, and now the idea that computers have solved more than what we intended on them helping will force us to evolve once more. The idea of technology ‘taking’ our jobs needs to bring a revolution of evolution to our race, we need to rethink the purpose of jobs, governments and economy all together. If humans can create machines to do our hard labor and tedious tasks for us, we can kick back, make sure every human gets their needs and wants met, and finally advance to the great creatures we can be. 

Blog #2 Opinion of the speech

Looking at how Barrack sculpted his argument, along with knowing that everything in speeches like these is put in place for a specific reason prior to it being read aloud, I now agree even more with the fact that it is a powerful and well put together speech.
   First, I enjoy the way Barrack, along with who ever wrote the speech, first addressed the main ways his opponent and his followers could, and have attacked him and his religious standards and practices. This creates a very strong base for Obama to break down and deny all of these counter examples, therefore assuring his character; a strong use of Ethos.
   Also, when he states " 90 percent of us believe in God, 70 percent affiliate themselves with an organized religion, 38 percent call themselves committed Christians, and substantially more people in America believe in angels than they do in evolution," Barack uses cold hard facts and statistics to prove his points, which is using the most important tool of persuasion, Logos or appeal to logic. 
   These tools along with his careful lack of logical fallacies make for a very sturdy argument that not only proves his point, but I'm sure alter the opinions of their image of Obama. 

Blog #1 Obama Speech Summary

While I am sure this is a very touchy subject for Barrack to give a speech on... especially given his audience, I think this speech is pretty well done. The basic summary of this speech is it seems to almost be Obama's response to a comment that an opposing politician made. This man, Alan Keyes, first attacked Barrack's faith and finalized the disrespect with "Jesus Christ would not vote for Barrack Obama".
     While I'm sure this was not the first insult Barrack had received, it was one that hit home for sure. The speech goes on to elaborate on the fact that while Barrack has his own faith, it is not up to him to decide what people should believe in, but simply his job to ensure that they have the right to believe in it. This is something I especially appreciate due to the fact that while I consider myself more of a student of religion, I would most closely attribute my beliefs to those of the Buddhist religion, which is not even one of the more common religions in America.