Greetings everyone!
Some years back, while at home, my mom bought dried cow skin for a special meal that night, as we usually had every market day. The food (rice and stew) was deliciously prepared, and we enjoyed it—except for the cow skin, which served as the protein in the food. The meat was 'unchewable'. We were only able to use our teeth to eat off the first layer; the rest was a no-go area. We all ended up swallowing it after long hours of chewing without result. Everyone in the house felt it and complained, as it was our first time encountering something like that. We had come across hard dried cow skin before, but after boiling it for a long time, it would become soft—but this one wasn’t like that.
Some years passed, and then I came across some videos online about synthetic fish and meat, especially cow skin. “How possible!” That was all I kept screaming as I watched the video. Is this what the world has come to, all in the name of science advancement?
Okay, maybe the meat we ate that night wasn’t synthetic, but it was obvious that chemicals were at work. After all, it’s no longer news that these sellers now use chemicals to preserve their food, to keep them looking “good” while the content is destructive to human health.
Science is good—no doubt about that—but humans are excessively overdoing it.
I once had an argument with someone about why harmful chemicals and medicines are produced and put on sale when it's known that such substances can be harmful to humans. It’s very clear: those chemicals and medicines were produced for specific purposes. But because the human brain is very smart, people now project the usage of those substances into other things, just to make profits.
I remember a particular time I bought a medicine from a chemist store. The drug was a syrup. When I got back to the office, one of the ladies who once worked in a hospital called me to a corner to ask me if I wanted to use the medicine on a girl. I was very surprised until she explained that the content of the medicine could give arousal and make a man full of strength.
“Angela, what are you saying?!” I screamed, because I felt she was already saying too much. She laughed really hard and later told me that the drug was actually good for remedying the sickness I was going through but could also serve another function if I wanted to use it that way. She was the talkative type, and we were cool—that was what led to her giving me that lecture. Lol.
The essence of the example above is to show how humans are outsmarting scientific evolution and misusing products and services in the wrong way.
Should we talk about AI?
Ohhh! This has gotten out of hand too—especially in the academic world.
These days, I wonder how teachers and lecturers cope with marking assignments that are supposed to be done by human intelligence but are now generated with AI. God knows that if I become a teacher in this era, there’ll be massive failure for anyone that uses AI copy-and-paste answers for me.
Thanks for reading.
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