Technology: making humanist arguments almost irrelevant

[Markekohut]

Alice,

This is a nice reminder-find again. As one who has made a bit of an argument about P p'raps
Actually dissing technology and science more than some think, I think this excerpt can be more easily seen as one in which P expresses fear about " State" ( or THEY ) power....( keeping the truth that WE are also the THEY ) more than disses technology, in my opinion today....

BUT the line in this that strikes me today is...." Making humanist arguments almost irrelevant"
Wow......that is some phrase from TRP......what do we think it means ( deeply)?

Is this line a cornerstone of your argument about TRP's beliefs? 


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On Jun 6, 2013, at 4:48 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> What has steadily, insidiously improved since then, of course, making humanist arguments almost irrelevant, is the technology. We must not be too distracted by the clunkiness of the means of surveillance current in Winston Smith's era. In "our" 1984, after all, the integrated circuit chip was less than a decade old, and almost embarrassingly primitive next to the wonders of computer technology circa 2003, most notably the internet, a development that promises social control on a scale those quaint old 20th-century tyrants with their goofy moustaches could only dream about. 
> from the Foreword to 1984