Yasile compaore survey with the philosophy group

Among the people we interviewed 60% agree with the fact that we are a product of our society. Descartes was this French philosopher that made this claim. People are more for the fact that society is responsible of who we are. Is not this casting the fault on society for our bad character and behaviors by approving this thesis? Some people believe that we are influenced by our culture but we still have our own choices to follow along and those people even disagree with the word “product” because, according to them, we are not made by society. In this same survey, 30% believe that technology has been good for our society and 5% believe the opposite. Another 5% believe both. That’s mean that for them technology has been good and bad. We think that the more people try to make their life easier and better with technology, the more problems they created and harder their lives becomes. So basically we believe that the price we pay for technology is higher than its worth.
To the 3rd question we asked, 80% said that they are willing to live a life that is much simpler and without technology. But for more precision some of the persons underline that that was not to the extent of no electricity and no bathroom. 20% believe that they are not ready. Yes we found out after research that to return to a state of hunter-gathers would be benefic for human race and nature. The question is : isn’t it too late? We also asked in the survey how people feel about advocating a life that is entirely natural and 30% said that this idea was desirable and 30% said the opposite. 20% claim that this idea was undesirable and impossible. People have different opinions over the way to take advantage of technology in the future. Basically the views were around: more control over technology, use it for good purpose such as education, reduce the harmful effects; Learn to respect technology. As one of our audience said “technology is neither good or bad but it is just the way we use it”. The biggest advantages of technology for people according to our survey are: health care, social interactions through easier way of communication (internet), solving social problems, transportation, things done faster, basically it makes life easier. But the disadvantages would be: wars, greed, impersonal life style, , large amount of waste, total dependency, invasion of privacy …. We asked a last question about the definition of a good life according to them (people we interviewed), and the majority said that to live without effort is the best definition of a good life. We had 20% of responses with religious characters that underline that a good life is lived for God and the others not ourselves.