Patrick J, Deneen on anti cultural technology:
“Our current technological age is marked, above all, by the expansion of technologies that have increasingly, and quite purposively, undermined and destroyed culture.”
“Our current technological age is marked, above all, by the expansion of technologies that have increasingly, and quite purposively, undermined and destroyed culture.”
“Industrial processes above all stress efficiency and productivity, prizing the ability to produce maximally by means of uniformity and repetition. They are oblivious to local conditions - machines and processes are designed precisely to ignore or overcome the obstacles of…”
“The same holds true for the industrial production of meat, of music, of housing, of entertainment, of education — in all these instances and many more, industrial processes ignore or obliterate local conditions”
“By contrast, culture is inescapably local. The knowledge of local conditions is the precondition and the very essence of culture.”
“An economy based on the opposition to nature is also by definition opposed to local conditions, and by definition, opposed to culture.”
“An economy based on the opposition to nature is also by definition opposed to local conditions, and by definition, opposed to culture.”
“It has been during this short period of industrialization that most of our longstanding cultural forms have attenuated, faded, or gone wholly out of existence.”
“Lying deep at the heart of this division of use and care - the opposition to nature - are philosophies that reject the idea of the bounties and limits of nature, philosophies that regard nature chiefly as an obstacle to the fulfillment of our desires,”
“Francis Bacon called for a change in humanity's relationship with the natural world, to view nature as an enemy and to understand the human mind as a weapon.”
“By disconnecting culture from nature and regarding nature as an enemy to be conquered, we have, above all, disconnected ourselves from the most important aspect of culture: the inexorable lessons of the limits of human power and the pitfalls of human efforts at mastery.”
- Patrick J. Deneen “Technology, Culture, and Virtue”
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