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mailing list archive - Re: Technology

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
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