Ancestors

Written by tehn on 2024-12-06 at 23:50

"When we use any given technology, we tend to be most interested in what we will be able to do with that technology. We want to know how a tool will empower us. But we should be at least as concerned with how any tool we use shapes our perception and our experience."

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclosure-of-the-human-psyche

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Toot

Written by tehn on 2024-12-06 at 23:56

"Illich believed that the transformation of the commons into a resource, regardless of who profited, was itself a great loss. By accepting the logic of resources, extraction, and value, we had surrendered the ground on which an entirely different mode of life could be built."

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