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15819345 No.15819345 [Reply] [Original]

> "Where science seeks to know, technology seeks to control."

> "scientific-technical rationality has become a new culture. Yet, technology does not increase the self-awareness of a society like ours. We need to reflect on what we take for granted, specifically, rational modernity."

>> No.15819349
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> "Existence answers the question whether something is or is not. Essence answers the question what the thing is. Failing to understand this is the first step for your demise. You do not question what is the Universe but how it works. You do not want to know what is the soul but how it works. And when you fail to give an answer to those questions your entire civilization, no matter how technologically advanced, turns into an ice cube under the Sun. It is a matter of time for it to disappear."

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> "Your technology is purely instrumental. It does not respond to inherent purposes, but is merely a means serving subjective goals you choose as you wish. You are so primitive that you think technology is neutral, meaning that it has no preference as between the various possible uses to which it can be put. And you assume this unreflectively. For you, the entire Universe is there to be controlled and used without any inner purpose. What if we were to think like that about humans? What would you say if I tell you humans are there to be controlled and used without any inner purpose? Wouldn't you be horrified?"

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>>15819345

> that image

That's too biased. On the left should be more positive stuff depicting the elegance of math and science, and on the right should be more of the unpleasant chaotic stuff.

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> "You know how to get there but you do not know why you are going or even where. That's what your civilization is all about."

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> "Tell us Norea, do you actually have the freedom to decide how technology will develop? Is the next step in the evolution of the technical system up to you? Or is it a small group of people deciding for you? If you have no freedom and no saying in deciding how technology will develop, soon you will turn your own world into hell. Hell, Norea, is that place where it is not up to you to adapt technology to your whims but on the contrary, a place where you must adapt to technology. Think about it before the sun of human civilization sets."

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> "What was the Tree of Knowledge, Norea? What forbidden knowledge were its fruits made of? You don't remember. We will for you. It was just one book, with one page, and one sentence reading: you are your own machine."

>> No.15819479

>>15819345
Humanity needs an experienced mentor. Oh well, I’ll guess we’ll wing it.

>> No.15819541

>>15819361
Now I know what a mermaid cafe is like