IVIV (12): 195-197

[David Morris]

Alice,

I think the often lost perspective of these P-texts is that they're
metaphorical on many levels.  So of course "technology only has the
agency that we ascribe it."  But that we have a hard-wired need to do
so makes this metaphysical, thus Gnostic, wouldn't you say?

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:35 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>