1/2 There is no progress that is ever definitive, no progress that is only progress, no progress without a shadow. All progress runs the risk of declining. There is a double play of progress and regress. The 19th century ignored the shadow of industrial development and we today basically ignore the shadow of technical progress. But this progress entails and produces specific regress. Technocratic thinking finds a place only for what is vital, both anthropologically and
@ebbot 2/2 socially. Its only logic is the simplistic logic of artificial machines. Technocratic competence is that of experts whose general blindness envelops specialized lucidity. Socially and politically, technocratic action can only be mutilated and mutilating. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia