IVIV (12): 195-197
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 14:35:09 CST 2009
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:57 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Right. So you agree. The projections of systems of imagined life (agency) onto technology is a perversity, a falsehood, and is to be fought, avoided.
>> David Morris
>
> But it can not be avoided.
>
> Monte sends us to GR 521, and claims "a very explicit pointer to THEY -- the actual (and always human) agents of the world."
>
> Monte's calim that THEY are actually human is flat wrong.
>
OK. That's because of that field office of Theirs which is in each of
our souls (They is We). They/We, ALL systematization is inherent in
the condition of consciousness. And avoidance of these system, or at
the very least recognizing their perversity in order to do the least
damage, is the goal.
But you do agree that technology only has the agency that we ascribe it.
David Morris
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