On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Lluerna Cultural wrote: > Technology is not neutral, therefore the universalization of technology > will suppose the destruction of the other cultures. If these countries want > to have western technology, they will have to lose their own culture, their > own cosmovision. The technology also means an important change of our own So what about all the fragmentation into ethnic conflict and cultural particularisms? One might also ask about the effects of instrumental rationality/technology on "Western" culture - multi-layered and self-contradictory beast that it is... > cartesian world where knowledge is power, power to dominate. Technology > offers this power, tech offers muscles, money, armies, knowledge,..." The The cartesian world view died with relativity... > sure those who are interested in the technological civilization will enjoy > it, and, specially, because is a view that it come from India, from a > different world( and how are related to EJ own toughts). You can read this Hm, where the BJP develop atom bombs in the name of Hindu nationalism!! One really ought to be careful with such monadic views of culture... JK ============================================================================== John King Eduard-Spranger-Str. 7 Zimmer 5/16 71634 Ludwigsburg ==============================================================================
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