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Anti-Technology Sentiment: How Much Do I Hate It?
Let Me Count the Ways...
by Aaron Kendall
Even though people don't give respect to scientists and the technology industry, they don't dislike them; that's apparent from just taking a look at Sony's financial report on the latest profits from sales of Playstation 2. However, if you take into account the general "sheep" mindset of people (which is either religious or misanthropic or both), it wouldn't be too hard to steer them in another direction. Get the Pope to condemn the Internet (which the old bastard has already done), get the leaders of communities to make speeches and release speculative data about Dreamcast putting cancer in kids' testicles/ovaries, and focus on news reports of technological mishaps in factories/homes...and you could start to shift the whole opinion of technology.
Of course, nothing quite that grand is going to happen. No, that's not the goal with anti-technology pieces. No, the whole point is to get you to not think about life in general or yourself too favorably. Most people won't admit their love of technology because in order to defend all that technology brings to your life, it would mean defending the one thing that most philosophy attacks: the love of your own life and yourself. With most people feeling guilty about being alive because of Adam & Eve and/or because we take up space on the planet where another endangered species of cockroach could live instead, it's no surprise that people haven't made an argument against anti-technology enthusiasts.
But that's what we need in order to stop all this anti-technology bullshit!
So, if you truly are a video gamer, car-enthusiast, stereo nut, chemistry buff, or techie freak, you've got to make a decision: either keep going on the same path that your parents handed down to you...or put down that Bible/Socialist manifesto, pick up that Gameboy, and head out to town in your '65 Mustang, smiling the whole time! You're gonna have to catch up, though...'cause I'm already in third gear. :)
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