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The military industrial complex.
Though maybe that's #2 after nuclear weapons.
Civilization is pretty catastrophic from every perspective besides humans and their parasocial relationships.
Reject culture. Return to nature.
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Funny how few mention inventions that serve no other purpose than to kill people
Some of the other inventions are what build support in populations for inventing, building, and using those weapons
Interest, especially compound interest
The reform of (many/most?) of Western public education systems.
It has turned what was among the best tool to prepare young people to become adults and citizens into a sad joke, into many wasted years during which those kids don't learn much, if anything. Reading (books), writing and even doing simple math are quickly vanishing skills. Let's not talk about history, sciences, the art of listening to and even to have an articulated dialogue, not insults or hatred, with anyone one doesn't agree with.
I feel devastated realizing how badly theses reforms have screwed up so many of the younger generations. What worse is that those reforms don't show much sign of being phased out, quite the contrary.
Farming