It’s interesting to me how as a culture we’ve come to depend on technology so much. We’ve forgotten that sometimes nature just has to take its course, because we expect technology to give us easy, quick answers- and to solve problems.
The main situation that has prompted this train of thought is my sister. Joelle is 32 weeks pregnant with triplets, and is really hoping for her doctors to tell her exactly what is happening and when it’s going to happen. She has been in the hospital now for over a week on a magnesium drip to stop the contractions so the babies can stay in and develop a little more in utero.
The good thing, obviously, is that because of technology/medicine- those three babies have stayed protected in her for weeks longer than they would have had medicine not intervened.
The down side, though, is that Joelle almost expects her doctors to give her a definitive answer regarding what’s going on inside of her. Each doctor that visits her has a different analysis and interpretation. In her mind, obviously one/some of those doctors are wrong- so who should she believe?
As a culture we’ve become so dependent on experts being able to interpret technology and give us answers. On a simplified level, this occurs everyday when I inevitably hear someone complain about the weather, “I thought the weather guy said it was supposed to be 70 and sunny. Well, it’s 62 and there are some clouds in the sky! When do they ever get it right?!?”
Can’t nature just take its course?!
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