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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Technology is the most salient feature of the modern world but is completely alien to our ruling ideology, which treats it in a fundamentally superstitious way, as an unpredictable, exogenous event that impacts society from without, summoned by channeling mysterious energies.
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There is, of course, plenty for criticism of technology - some of it sophisticated (most not) - but, in general, the notion that technology is ‘out of control’ is merely a symptom of the problem of our not having the correct understanding of technology.
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All of the philosophy, economics, and politics we have elevated to the status of unassailable fact was created on the dawn of its own obsolescence. The world changed dramatically, but the ideas merely hardened in response.
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