The Technological Glorification of Technology
In various science shows on television and online sites, we’re constantly and without exception presented with an enthusiastic and engaging glorification of technology without peer. No truly critical questions are asked. Science, as perfect truth seeker and perfect Truth are presented with a sick glee that in fact supports the thought of Science as a new religion.
The view of Isaac Newton, the idea that everything can be measured and catalogued, labeled, dominates the current inhuman society. It’s present on all levels, on all areas of expertise. Only what can be measured in a laboratory has a quantifiable existence.
One show teaches children and youth the jargon, the gospel of technology and civilization. Another segments it, and shows its «usefulness» to modern people. Everything is narrowed and systematized, adapted to the ruling reality.
Today’s society would like to show us only a small wave, and ignore the boiling sea. Science is an excellent tool in that regard. Like visible light only reveals only a tiny part of the spectrum, society and its tools show us only flickers of reality. In this regard, as in others, we keep returning to media, to the fourth estate. Media is eagerly presenting the accepted reality, blatantly ignoring close to all other alternatives, echoing, as always, what we’re force-fed in kindergarten, at school, at work, and in society as a whole. Perception is reality, and those ruling today’s world have realized this, and are integrating it in their propaganda.
By narrowing our perception of reality, we become easier to rule, a very important reason why it’s being done.
Another, just as important side of this, is the single right to the truth today’s rulers claim to have. By filtering reality, steer it into rail tracks subjected to society’s rules and norms, civilization blossoms, the dictatorship blossoms.
It’s an undeniable fact that today’s overwhelming problems are created by advanced technology, but its priests and priestesses keep singing its praise. They claim that the problems can be solved with more of the same, so to speak. What will guide us out of the trouble created by technology is more technology.
And this is supposed to be the temple of rationality, the pillar of reason? Keep trying to wrap your mind around that one, and see where it gets you.
And this - glorified as the path and the goal, as the hymn we all must sing, leading us right into humanity’s collective suicide, towards an already very present level of a never-before-seen destruction of nature and life on Earth - is the course humanity walks.
This is an expanded version of the post first written and published in 2006.