You can tell Western thought long ago fell into dogmatism because there have been no serious, systematic attempts to understand technology. Our philosophy, economics, and political science is trapped in the 18th century, before anyone knew how transformative technology would be.
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Why are you ignoring all the thinking that went on in the second half of the 20th century? Cybernetics, Steward Brand’s cluster of modernists, AI, literature from Lem to Egan and Gibson, and the current thinkers, like Harari? Just because the humanities are defunct?
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I find them insufficiently systematic and still too steeped in 18th century thinking.
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When you decry western thought, do you have another cultural tradition in mind that understands technology better? And which 18th century thinkers do you have in mind? Leibniz, Kant, Hume?
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