I enjoy your thoughts. Without imperfection, there is no beauty. That's how imperfection is beautiful. Automatic cars, Microwave Food, Fast Food, Autonomous Anything, anything that allows the public to be less mentally active will cause a side effect to society. Its scary actually. A professor at my school has said that for every time saving device somebody has in their home, it is indirectly proportional to the amount of work needed to live.
You make me wonder about your last statement, when do you think it could have occurred before?
Absolutely agree with your professor. For one, look at smart phones and how convenient they have made out lives, now you can hardly get people off of them to take care of themselves of their loved ones.
My statement could go back as early as man itself, jealousy, greed, curiosity even, I think the two most primal instincts we have are to create and to kill, when we are not having sex, we are killing each other...I just watched a video on this the other day, I wish I could remember what it was called. Think about all the stories of people going outward to find new land, when they found it, they usually found other people, and when those people wouldnt adapt to their ways, they were often killed.
Killed and raped to create cross breeds. I'm not sure about the two drives being sex and killing. I believe the ability to survive is our main thing Killing comes with that, sex is needed to continue living partially past death in a way. It's fascinating stuff.