In the modern era, humanity has continuously grown to be more ambitious, ever pushing the boundary of the impossible in pursuit of the day in which the concept itself fades beyond memory. But in the pursuit of all things simple, elegant, powerful, and repeatable, humanity has failed to account for the most crucial of all things, that thing being themselves. It is almost laughable that in pursuit of tomorrow, humanity has slowly forgotten itself, condemning their spirits to the past and constructing a new day devoid of the very thing which built it. Modernity has been synonymous with the accepting of ideas and conceding to the comfort of the repeatable. The following discussion will concretize how such a conclusion has been made through a tracking of the most expressive thought processes: namely mathematics, philosophy, and writing. Therefore, everything from fictional stories to teaching styles and student processes will appropriately be for use of argument. By use of such materials, one hopes to find the answers to a variety of questions. Firstly, what does it mean to have technology? What does it mean to have achieved technology and to that end, what is cunning? Lastly, to what end is the current understanding of progression a paradox? In short, this analysis (both directly and indirectly) hinges on a discussion of the logical arguments made to derive foundational laws of natural philosophy, like those put forth in Newton’s Principia Mathematica, an understanding of what it takes for a statistical measurement to be significant, scrutiny over the simplest of word choices, an understanding of a “cause” as well as “standing reserve”, at least in the manner brought forth by Martin Heidegger in The Question Concerning Technology.
