Humans are not supposed to live like this, we need a change! PLEASE READ!

Technology and electricity can be seen as ruining the human race, but it can be seen as improving it as well. Never before has so much information been available to the general public. We are living in an age of knowledge only limited by ones efforts or willingness to reach it. With this knowledge we can relieve stress, depression, sleep problems and other ailments by having professions with more resources to treat it; for example, radiation can be used treat injuries with the invention of the gamma knife to prolong lives. Technology is a medium to voice your opinion as well, such as this website. It allows to connect you with friends and family spanning long distances. It allows you to know what is going around the world and work to contribute to others. It is a medium to share ideas, perspectives, and culture that drives the human race to be more aware of other people and also ourselves forging an identity. Technology and electricity gives can be used properly or improperly. When new technology comes out, it is represented as a shock to the equilibrium of human society because we need to learn how to adjust or deal with it. This gives rise to unprecedented effects such as cyber bullyiing, privacy issues, etc. However, as we learn to adapt, we form social regulations to encourage and enforce people from abusing it. Such as not using technology when eating, talking with others, and so because it is disrespectful or not morally right. With the changing environment that we have around us, we will still have morals to make judgements to use or no to use, to see it as right or wrong. We need techonology for it makes arduous or repetitive tasks quicker and easier to be more productive. What would take years can be done in seconds. Traveling would be so much more difficult without cars, airplanes, and trains. Without technology basic necessities would not be easily purchased or produced. What would it be like to not have a system to get rid of waste, technology to create food from the few to feed a nation, where could we store the food for a longer time to make it last? We can build a house, but we cannot build other applicances so easily. This efficiency ultimately allows people to have more free time, to imagine, to share, and to inspire. We all have a choice what we do in our free time and what we do is optional. It may seem that there are so many problems, but the problems we see today are problems we always have had but did not have the technology to see it so frequently or at all. This is due to the media being as fast as ever with reporting information. We can know what happened in Nepal, what policies are being enacted in government, and any other opportunites or problems that are current. I will make the argument, that although we have absorbed more "bad" news, we have also revealed problems at the same time that we as a society can influence or solve. With technology we have become an international community, more interconnected than before. We have the United Nations, linked economies, and other measures and regulations to check and help each other. If we were not so interconnected like the days with less technology, nothing will stop other nations from viewing us as enemies and attacking us. We know each other more than before with technology. It is true we still have conflicts with other countries, but be can communicate and make resolutions that would never happen with speed without technology. It is true with increasing techonology that it would require more training and learning, but life would be meaningless without challenges. If everything was easy there would be nothing to strive for. Life is more fulfilling by knowing more, because life would be stale if everything you ever knew was so provincial. Education opens up so many more opportunities and perspectives one would not be exposed to otherwise. It is worth the sacrifice because if you know what you love to do, when you work for it, it will test and confirm your love for it. You may have to work years to prepare for your job, but if you chose right, you will love that job everyday and it will not feel as if you are working. No one should decide what you love to do because that is your choice. This includes choosing a job that factors all of your interests like having enough free time to spend with your family. Our quality of life depends on your our personal choices and perspective. This includes consumerism, healthy habits, and any many other problems you have listed. You have a choice to live your life as you choose. If not, there are so many interest groups, petitions, and protests that you can partake to have your voice heard and influence government. You do not have to spend your money on a television; you do not have to be lazy; you do not even have to view society the way you do right now. After struggling through different challenges in my life, financial, emotional, intellectual, and so on, I have come to the realization that I can only blame others so long before I realized what really needed to be changed was myself. You should not give up on yourself because you fail once, twice, or a hundred times, because if you truly want something you will improve to get closer to it. Acknowledge something is difficult, and face it anyways to improve yourself. You will fail many times, but without the right thinking and dedication, nothing in life can be accomplished. We can blame other and blame society, but ultimately it takes self discipline and self-reflection.