Hi Billy, > On Dec 29, 2014, at 8:42 AM, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical > Centrist Community <[email protected]> wrote: > > Whatever the advantages that we can derive from technology, this vision of > the future violates the basic moral principles of both civil society and > religious faith. Before we plug ourselves in for eternity, we might consider, > this holiday season, to take a non-digital path to reviving our soils, > whether by reading your bible, enjoying Shakespeare, tossing a football with > your kids, or simply taking a walk in the woods. Technology might help shape > what humanity can do, but it cannot make us any more human. That’s up to us. > I kind of get his point, but find it deeply ironic that I am reading it via an email list on an Apple computer.
Technology isn’t really the problem. Cultural nihilism and the utter failure of the church to articulate a coherent, positive, intellectually sound gospel is the problem. Technology addiction is just a symptom. To be sure, there are a lot of transhumanists and singulatarians in Silicon Valley who are espousing a particular ideology and baking it into their products, to a greater or lesser extent. But I think they (and others) vastly overestimate their impact on culture. Most of us humans still enjoy being physical beings more than we fear death. Mostly we play with tech gadgets too much because we are bored, not because we believe they will save us. As such, they really aren’t any better (or worse) than television. Which admittedly may not be saying much... — Ernie P. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
