AiA wrote on Jun 24
th, 2016 at 12:59am:
... wrote on Jun 23
rd, 2016 at 10:49am:
AiA wrote on Jun 23
rd, 2016 at 6:56am:
in the midst of 20,000 years of progress squeezed into a single century a few "dangerous" liberals aren't going to make any more difference than would a mosquito to a dinosaur
Mosquitoes are responsible for more deaths than any other creature.
Bad analogy.
We are in the midst of a technological speed up that likes that mankind has never seen before. All you have done is put a simplistic Left v Right template over what is happening. It means nothing.
I understand you're getting frustrated because I'm not buying into your frame, but if you recall, the article mentioned both liberals and christians as contributing to this trend. You would expect liberals to get the lions share of the examples, since the orthodoxy is liberal. You don't give fringes as much weight as you would the mainstream.
Technology is a different beast to what I/the article is talking about. In fact, technology even helps facilitate a lack of creativity.
Don't know how to do something? No need to experiment to find a solution anymore - google it.
No more engineering solutions to specific problems - there's a mass produced machine available to do it for you.
Having a philosophical discussion at the pub? No need to think of a witty, credible argument - just pull out your phone and follow a link.
I've already discussed how a growing proportion of workers produce nothing, and
buy rather than create things to meet their own needs. The last thing I finished making was a home gym setup out of recycled materials, and I keep getting asked why I didn't just buy the stuff. Why the hell should I? I can make it exactly how I want it, for a quarter of the price AND learn while I'm doing it.
Similarly, if my wife sews something, her circle of hens gasp in awe that somebody MADE something. They're not even difficult things - we learnt the skills in school when we were ~10, yet it's become seen as some sort of arcane skill. She makes a tiny fraction of the amount of stuff my mum and her circle of hens did as a matter of routine, which in turn was a fraction of what my grandmother and her circle did.
Technology has removed the need to create and left hands and minds idle. Yours seems to be some of the idle ones, but you want to share the credit for those who still do create and innovate, by virtue of being part of the same species.