Science, the lost daughter of humanity
Note: I wrote this when I just started to work from home in 2020… I decided to publish it today
Day 3 at home. We decided to work from home to try to stop, as much as we can, the outbreak of COVID-19. I already ate half of my salsa dips. I’m a little scared about the future because there is no hope at the moment… There isn’t any solution on how to stop the spreading except social isolation… This is just the beginning… We all hope that the summer will slow down the spreading but because it’s a new virus, that is just a hope… MERS (a brother of COVID-19) is still spreading from camels to humans, in high temperatures environment… Anyway… this is not the reason I am writing this…
I was reading a quote from Yuval Noah Harari and I had to write down some thoughts.
What happened with COVID-19? Our systems were caught off-guard… The panic among politicians trying to react to the panic is hilarious. The truth is: we are unprepared, our systems are failing humanity and we do not know how to react.
Some time has passed since the last big society crises like the Spanish Flu (1918) and WW2 (1945), we forgot what is important, what should be our main focus: SCIENCE.
One of the last century's breakthroughs in health was sanitation and personal hygiene. A simple act of washing your hands can save your life.
We invest too much into pop-culture industries and we slow down the investment into science, why? Because we are in our comfort zone. We have the “usual” diseases like cancer, heart diseases, diabetes, all these known enemies we already kinda know how they manifest and what path we need to follow to try to prolong our life as much as we can. This is still a comfort zone for most of humanity, unfortunately, and it’s sad…
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t suggest that we shouldn’t invest in anything else other than science, I don’t suggest either to lower the amount of money is being circulated in these industries, I’m just saying that we should pay more attention to Science. What happens right now in the world, the inefficacy of the healthcare systems around the world is the product of years and years of neglecting this industry and it’s painful to watch how unprepared we are…
Entertainment is good.
Yes, entertainment is good, it makes you break the monotony, it helps you relax, it helps you explore the artistic nature of humanity, out of these it develops our creative mind. We should not stop investing in it but also we should not focus more on it than on Science.
Music
For example, it seems that dopamine — a neurotransmitter that plays an important role in our cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning — plays a direct role in the reward experience induced by music.
Games
It appears that people who play computer games they have improved visuospatial aptitudes, memory, computer games can likewise prepare players to be more responsible and persistent. In-game achievements will trigger dopamine discharge in the brain which remunerates the player for their ‘difficult’ work. It seems also that children with ADHD can focus more while playing games.
Painting
Neuroscientists are continually searching for imaginative methods for improving the personal satisfaction for individuals who have experienced a brain injury. Regardless of whether the damage happened because of a blackout, an entering injury, or a stroke, recuperation requires some serious energy and a lot of work. That is the reason why scientists are investigating the advantages of painting while recovering from brain injury. It seems that painting strengthens the memory, trains your problem-solving abilities, motor skills, it helps with stress relief and emotional growth.
Tech to the rescue
One of the “good” things that happened during this pandemic was the massive support from the tech industry. From Bil Gates who wants to build 7 factories for the top 7 vaccines against COVID-19 to fastgrands.org an initiative from top tech people: John Collison, Patrick Collison, Paul Graham, Reid Hoffman, Fiona McKean, and Tobias Lütke, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Chris and Crystal Sacca.
Hopefully, after this pandemic, people will give more attention to Science to realize how important it is for us to be ready against invisible enemies.
Let’s keep safe everyone, wear masks, wash our hands and keep building the future.
Be safe!
