The Disadvantages of Industrialization

These disadvantages can be seen most easily by looking at the history of the Industrialized world from the middle of the 19th Century to the middle of the 20th. It is clear that mankind did not know how to handle this big event. They did not handle it, it handled them - and brutally.

We should have learned something from this - but unfortunately, Industrialization removed the ability to reason, from most of the the population. They had been changed into workers, and could do nothing else.

This had been foreseen by Adam Smith, in 1776, when Industrialization was just getting started. Although he could not have imagined the extent of this development. Now, two hundred years later - we can look back, and see what happened.

The Mass of the people (which is what they had become) responded to this, as a religious event - something ordained by God (or a similar Universal power).

I can see this most easily in the religion of my family - Mormonism. Most of the converts, who followed Joseph Smith, the founder of this religion - came from the industrialized sections of England. They wanted another religion, to combat the one they had. And since Joseph was a Prophet of God, they knew he could do this. What happened instead, was the death of Smith at the hands of an angry mob. And the departure of the rest, to somewhere in the West - outside of America, that had treated them so badly.

The rest of America simply adapted, and America became the strongest nation in history - after WWII. This was the world I was born into - in 1936. In 1960, I was an Electronic Engineer, building Radars to detect Soviet bombers - and flying my own airplane. Eventually, I ended up in California (in Silicon Valley) working in Computers.

And noticing the same thing - Americans did not know where they were, or what had happened to them. But one thing was clear to me - they hated people. I had to get out, and I did - and moved to Costa Rica, where I now live.