Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned.
Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war.
There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.
Let's just say that all of the last few "technological advances" mankind has made are paid subscription services, microtranscations in video games, AI-generated artwork, AI-generated text, "stay at home" measures and censorship algorithms.
None of these which are benefitting people to begin with, but they give the elite plenty of negative energy to remain virtually immortal.
They say we are getting 1984 and Brave New World...I laugh at them. We are getting Warhammer 40k on a grounded scale.
Fatalism is an ideology for simpletons. I'd argue cellphones did not improve quality of life. Social media made people more vapid and narcissistic. Immediate connectivity has caused an entire generation to be completely inept at physical conversations. I think the only people who think cellphones increased quality of life have never lived in a world without them. Change my mind
By your logic the Internet would had been made people and youth more vapid and narcissistic even before cellphones came out and it's all free speech, flash animations and weird seizure websites. The point is that the "technological advancements" we had SINCE the Cellphone had been literally nothing but things intended to take money and property off people and make them suffer.
The internet is still a net negative for humanity but it's much better overall than the smartphone. It's a DARPA military project after all. It's the biggest psy-op weapon ever created.