The Evolution as a Destruction

Human beings have created many things such as: transportation, computers, technology etc. In order to improve their life. I can mention several things that people built in the Industrial Revolution. However, people never thought that this evolution would bring a lot of consequences as: social problems, depression, loneliness, pressure, fear, etc.
In addition, the dream of having a better quality of life is very beautiful because that means that everyone can have the opportunity to see the world in a positive way. Moreover, there is something that I do not understand, if human beings transformed the world in order to have a good life and they also created every element with the intention to improve their conditions of life, I can say that their purpose had not good results.
For example, if we traveled to the Industrial Revolution and we asked someone the next question: Did your quality of life change with the creation of factories, transportation, economic policies etc? I think that her or his answer would be not.

Likewise, there was an important period which was called the Industrial Revolution (1760-1850). In that time, fundamental changes occurred as: In agriculture, textile and metal manufacture, economic policies and transportation (Montagna1). This revolution had an important meaning to people’s life because many of them believed in this process as a good alternative in order to achieve their happiness. They thought that with the creation of technology and more opportunities of jobs they could have an improvement of their life. Thus, it is very sad to say that this period had not positive results in quality of living.

For example, there is an article which explains very well what Industrial Revolution meant. It says that the revolution’s importance was in the great increase of the production of goods but the overcrowded and unsanitary housing and the terrible working conditions were created by rapid industrialization (“Industrial Revolution” 5).
About this point, I would like to mention a story called the Signal man. When I read this short story I asked myself how a man could work in those lack conditions.
Additionally, this man worked in a station train and he lived under the ground where the light was very poor. He also did not have family and his only friends were the railway and his loneliness. That issue did that the signalman sees his future with fear and suspicion because all his life was focus on the job.

His activity also was so demanding that he felt a high pressure about it. This problem provoked a several changes in the signalman’s behavior. For example, he started to hear a strange noise and a rare figure appeared in front of his eyes, who was warning him about something.
In addition, his concerned about this issue was so deeper that he asked himself some questions as:
What is its warning against?" he said, ruminating, with his eyes on the fire, and only by times turning them on me. "What is the danger? Where is the danger? There is danger overhanging somewhere on the Line. Some dreadful calamity will happen. It is not to be doubted this third time, after what has gone before. But surely this is a cruel haunting of me. What can I do?"

I believe that these visions (the noise and the ghost) came to the signalman’s conscience, which tried to advice him about something bad. To emphasize my thought, I have been thinking that he could predict his destiny. For that reason, he was so worried because he knew that this new period would not bring happiness as he thought in some moment of his life. In other words, the signal man explains to us the negative transformation that people suffered in that age. Moreover, that period only brought terrible consequences because many people had to spend all their life in factories as slaves without happiness and dignity. At the same time they did not have the chance to choose their destinies because they were manipulated by a minority group.

Apart from that, many history books explain that the industrial revolution was essential for the economic and cultural transformation. With such information, I can think that this evolution was created without the intention to improve people’s life. That improvement was only for a little group of citizens who felt and lived the positive changes of that evolution. In addition, it is so embarrassing to see how that people could full their pockets with money through people’s exploitation, who worked in terrible conditions and they had to sacrifice their dreams and faith by a selfish and desconsiderate group.

Althoug, those people could become rich; there was something that their avarice did not let them see the disadvantage of this dangerous evolution. Return to the signal man, in the last part of the story, this poor man had a terrible accident where his body was cut down by engine. I understood that final as a kind of advice about human beings’ ambition. Because evolution did people can not control their own life because it was complete manipulated by that process.

In conclusion, I would say that people should control their ambition about technology because it can manage our minds and at the same time it can destroyed our life as the signal man, who believed in progress as a good opportunity to change his life. However, his life was destroyed by it.






Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. The Signal man.

“Industrial Revolution”
http://www.puhsd.k12.ca.us/chana/staffpages/eichman/Adult_School/us/fall/industrialization/1/industrial_revolution.htm

Montagna, Joseph. The Industrial Revolution.2008. 13 sept 2008
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.06.x.html