The man is a deficient being, wrote the philosopher Arnold Gehlen 1940. The progress seems to be to establish the myth: Because its in the Evolution-developed institutions are weak, human beings seek this deficiency by means of a technique to compensate. Bad: Many of the problems which he sees himself, into the man himself. So he uses his technical imagination in motion, to invent a thing that can do it better than he. And always the doubt gnaws: Is this good enough, or you can make it even better? For example: The toothbrush

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