Santiago, Jobelle Faith E.

November 24, 2018

BSA-1A Science, Technology and Society

Stay Alive, Choose Life

As I finished watching the films: The Magician’s Twin: CS Lewis and the Case against
Scientism and Akiro Kurosawa’s Dreams: The Village of Watermills, it woke me up to my senses.
It woke me up to the things I forgot. It woke me up to a reality that most of us chose not to foresee.

In both films, it showed how we people are easily astonished by the wonders of discovery,
inventions and innovations that science had offered to us. We are in the state where we seem to
embrace nowadays, artificiality more than naturalism. We refuse to look back on yesterday,
forgetting the fact that what we are today was because of the sacrifices made from yesterday.
Technology reveals the thorny truth about nature’s role, and the human person’s role in here.
Nature’s role in our world is so big that we’ve come to a point where we sacrificed its beauty for
the innovation of technology and in this, human person’s role is the need take part in our
responsibility of taking care our nature. Ensuring that in seeing an opportunity to become a better
world, we must not come beyond its limit. We must only receive what nature can only give and
create best things out of it. Most of all, we must always remember that the only key to a better
today and tomorrow is when we are ready to become better people worthy of the life we’ve given.

We cannot doubt the beauty of science and technology. True enough that it can go beyond
what it already knows but we must not bury the inouliable beauty of tenalach. Let us forever be
alive with the unforgettable beauty of our relationship with our land, air and water… our
connection that makes us one with nature.