From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 01:27:21 MDT
At 08:25 PM 8/26/02 -0700, Spike wrote:
>culture blind and value neutral.
But that's simply *not the case* with technohistory.
*You and I* might value tearing up the ground and making ball bearings out
of it, but there are plenty of people around the world (whose ground you
have your eye on) who find the idea disgusting, the cultural results
irrelevant if not degrading, and the culture that blindly sees itself as
blind to value when it does this as diabolical. Disagree with them all you
like; the point is that the implicit values of technocivilization are not
universal and neutral, and no cultural analyst of the last half century
would fail to ridicule this claim.
Damien Broderick
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