What does advance mean? One year without electricity would be an extreme pain in the posterior. No Lights! No refrigerator! Imagine the entire US without power for a year. How many would die just because operating rooms in hospitals could not work?
We have all of this talk about Culture but pretend that we have not adjusted to living in a Culture of Technology and act as if not understanding it does not matter. That lack of understanding is just another dependence.
I don't see how electricity is a "culture" as opposed to what people who sell it have made it--a necessity in the form of convenience. I also don't understand (again) how my lack of understanding is just another dependence. Dependence on what? I'm speaking for myself and no other when I claim I could live without electricity for a year. To be free enslavement, some of our ancestors ran, with a very real possibility they would die. But to them, freedom was worth the risk. I remember what it was like when I was young and used to visit my grandparents farm...no indoor plumbing, kerosene lamps, pumps used for fresh water from wells, no refrigerators but ice boxes. Some people might be miserable and feel tortured with the ability to flick a switch and there is light or flush a toilet from the inside of a warm house. What do I mean by "advance"? Moving forward toward goals to improve our living conditions, which could be a better use of technology to make that happen. Sometimes to move forward, you might have to sacrifice something that could be holding you back. Not saying electricity is a problem, just responding to your use of it as an example.
