No technophobe

[Andrew Dinn]

Andrew Dinn writes:

> Ned's followers showed no disdain for technology when it suited their
> circumstance or aided their revolt. But both the vision which promoted
> technological `advance' and the rapid centrifugal motion of property
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^
  oops! read centripetal, of course (everybody knows there is not
  such thing as a centrifugal force!)

> and power greased by technological change were unequivocally opposed.
> It never was just technology per se that was opposed by the Luddites
> but the combination of a whole range of technologies with a particular
> social order (remember folks you heard it here first). I see no
> contrary opinion in TRP's writing.


Andrew Dinn
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