Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto

This sentence is more than two thousand years old, and I believe it is more relevant today than ever.

Human beings have always created tools to improve their condition. Their productivity. We have invented tools for agriculture, medicine, electronics, and more. Each of these techniques and technologies has solved a problem (often creating others, but that is part of the game).

One thing I have never understood, however, is the desire to dehumanize ourselves. To remove from humans what is human. It almost seems as if the dream of many is to become machines. Productivity at all costs, even if it means crushing people, just to see numbers grow. Results achieved through shortcuts, even if that means losing something along the way.

Alongside this, there is also a push toward total standardization, stripping away the unique traits that define us as individuals.

To be human means having emotions, desires, dreams, thoughts. If we give up all of this, what is left of us?

#Reflections #Life