From the point of view of a whole society, the purpose of #technology is not to fulfill us, just to help us survive and reduce pain and suffering - i.e. safety. Without science and technology, primitive life was "nasty, brutish and short" to quote Thomas Hobbes. That's why no one wants to go back in time and live in caves for 30 brutal years.   Fulfillment is a completely separate matter. It takes a healthy mental state to fulfill a person, which includes a sense of purpose, curiosity, acceptance of reality, rationality, productivity, independence of thought, freedom of expression, benevolence, the willingness to trust and love, a sense of community and common purpose, and a sense of humor. Here's the interesting point: all of these values and more, in addition to enabling fulfillment, enable science and technology. So if you want fulfillment as a society, we will end up with scientific and technological progress as well. You can't have one without the other.  In contrast, societies and individuals who abandon those healthy values, such as totalitarian regimes (communism, Naziism, etc.), and individuals who live lives of victimhood, dependency, and resentment, imagine that fulfillment will result, get neither fulfillment nor safety.
@AynRandOrg @ObjectiviTweets
#objectvism