Technological addiction

What drives our addiction to technology? 

Underneath all addictions there is a real need that the addiction promises to meet.

The cocaine says I will make you feel great

I will give you a real buzz

For a short time it does just that

But over time the promise is a lie

A lie that leaves the true need unmet.
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A lie that turns the promise into addiction
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The same goes for technology
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Technology being driven by an imperative to control nature
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A technology driven by unmet needs.
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Both addictions and technology stem from our unmet needs
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Needs that we all feel in different ways
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And there is one though that we all share
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The anxiety and fear endemic to modern life
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As a near-universal feeling of meaninglessness
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As a relentless feeling from which we can only ever be temporarily freed
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Experienced by us as a pervasive superficiality and phoniness. 
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It is a feeling that something is missing. 
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Some people call it a hole in the soul. 
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What we are seeking in our technological addiction is nothing less than our lost wholeness
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And its recovery is what lies on the other side of the imminent collapse of the regime of separation.
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For finally we are beginning to see the nonsense of technological superiority
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An addiction that has consumed our time and energy
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One tsunami and nature shows the futility of even trying to control her
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Indeed why would we want to when cooperation is so much more beneficial?
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We have a window of chance
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An opportunity to work with nature
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Letting go of our addictions to false ideas particularly to technology that can only ever provide temporary release
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Technology can never answer the needs of our soul
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Nor can the pursuit of control over nature ever succeed
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Technological addiction just brings us more wanting like any other addiction
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Addiction is no freedom