All culture is a response to tech disruption. Pro-tech is ephemeralized by present, anti-tech becomes cultural memory of paradises lost.
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would you ever argue that all tech is a response to culture?
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I used to about 10 years ago. Done a 180. History simply does not support that view.
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long story...I've swung 180 deg from viewing culture as leading to lagging correlate of tech. Also usually 3-4 degrees removed
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Basically extrapolated form of my future nausea argument. Culture's function (not intent) is to re-anthropomorphize the non-human
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reanthropomorphize = renormalize. Opposite of HHGTTG "total perspective vortex." Tech tugs us to TPV, culture pulls us back.
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I am saying that anthropological definition is ill-posed. You don't get to "include" non-human in human. Inclusion goes other way.
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That's the humanist view. I am setting up camp in tech imperative land. Humans are specifically technological.
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Understanding tech simplifies massively if you view humans as passive channels rather than agents. Geocentric--> heliocentric...
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"there is no such thing... there's just forces of nature that do or do not work through humans."
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Agreed, it's humanistic and locked in, qwerty style. Probably impossible to dislodge. Big reason why so many confusions abt it

