From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 10:05:50 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>At 08:25 PM 8/26/02 -0700, Spike wrote:
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>>culture blind and value neutral.
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>But that's simply *not the case* with technohistory.
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>*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.
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>Damien Broderick
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For that matter, I'm not sure that I wouldn't agree with the people who
live on the land. The land has sustained them and their ancestors. The
ball bearing factory might do other people a lot of good, but usually
all it will do for the people who were living there is dirve them off
their land, and leave them to starve. That sounds pretty diabolic to me.
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