TomViolence posted:

Truth be told, I don't know where this back-slapping, warmly humanistic optimism about technology comes from, even in a modern context. For all that advances in medicine have saved lives and transportation and telecommunications have closed vast distances, many of the technologies we take for granted were first used to kill people en masse or are being used for surveillance, or were developed through unethical means in the first place. Not to mention that the relentless march of progress we're all meant to be so proud of is destroying the planet by increments and allows a small and exclusive club of bellicose, imperialistic nations to end the world with nuclear fire at a moment's notice. You just need to look at the current crop of Silicon valley utopians and their insane, often perverse, prejudiced and outright reactionary ideas to see where such an attitude of unconstrained glee for the wonders of technology can get you.