The Metaphysics of Technology by David Skrbina

Author:David Skrbina
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: metaphysics, technology, anti-tech, luddism, philosophy
Published: 2015-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

If so, the even more technologically intense era of the 21st century must be emptier still. Human essence is further drained away the more technology advances. Every new development promises more than the one before but succeeds only in further desiccating human nature. Ortega’s insight rings true.

[150] I note here that, for Orwell as for present-day Europeans, socialism involved a moderately capitalist economic system. Thus the central conflict was a political one—socialist-capitalist democracy versus autocratic fascism—and not an economic one.

[151] See discussion in Chapter 5.

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