Question

The great defect of our civilization is that it does not know what to do with its knowledge.

Science has given us power fit for the God, yet we use it like small children. For example, we do not

know how to manage our machines. Machines were made to be man’s servants; yet he had grown so

dependent upon them that they in a fair way have become his master. Already, most men spend most

of their lives looking after and waiting upon machines. And the machines are very stern master. They

must be fed with coal and petrol to drink, and oil to wash waste, and they must be kept at the right

temperature. And if they do not get their meals when they expect them, they grow sulky and refuse

to work, or burst with rage, and blow up, and spread ruin and destruction all around them. So we have

to wait upon them very attentively and do all that we can, to keep them in good temper. Already we

find it difficult either to work or play without the machines, and a time may come when they will rule

us altogether just as we rule animals.

And this brings me to the point at which I asked, “What do we do with all the time which the machines

have saved for us, and the new energy they have given us? On the whole it must be admitted, we do

very little. For the most part we use our time and energy to make more and better machines; but more

and better machines will only give us still more time and still more energy, and what we are to do with

them ?‘‘ The answer, I think, is that we should try to become more civilized. For the machines

themselves, and the power which the machines have given us, are no civilization but aids to

civilization. (C.M. Joad)

Why does the author say that we should try to become more civilized?

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