Sure. And you're also made out of meat and will die soon. And we're living on a planet that is in the long term doomed even if we half-evolved, tool-using monkeys get our shit together. (Did you know that we're half-way through the lifespan of forests? [1] That one day the conditions just won't be right for them anymore? That never fails to sadden me.)
But the interesting thing to me is what happens when we move past the existential despair that comes when we first recognize the true nature of things. Sure, things are fucked, but they always have been. What's next?
When I was as bitter as you sound here, I took a break. Burnout sucks. But eventually I found myself coming back to technology because it's my best chance to make the world suck slightly less. Or, put more accurately, to shift it in the direction of my irrationally high ideals.
So maybe take a break? Go hike the Pacific Crest Trail or work on a goat farm or something. You're not going to help anybody, yourself included, by soaking in something you hate indiscriminately. At least rest until you can come back and focus your hate in a laser-like beam on one particularly awful thing.
He didn't say all technology is diseased. He was talking about the web. Writing native applications is still as fun as it has always been. Not that there isn't disease there too, but it isn't scripted and marked up to hell like the technostew that is the current web, which is what the parent was describing.
But the interesting thing to me is what happens when we move past the existential despair that comes when we first recognize the true nature of things. Sure, things are fucked, but they always have been. What's next?
When I was as bitter as you sound here, I took a break. Burnout sucks. But eventually I found myself coming back to technology because it's my best chance to make the world suck slightly less. Or, put more accurately, to shift it in the direction of my irrationally high ideals.
So maybe take a break? Go hike the Pacific Crest Trail or work on a goat farm or something. You're not going to help anybody, yourself included, by soaking in something you hate indiscriminately. At least rest until you can come back and focus your hate in a laser-like beam on one particularly awful thing.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_Earth