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Arnold Toynbee noted in his massive A Study of History that the downslope of civilizations forms the great incubator of religious movements.11 Rarely does this happen so dramatically as in times when the most basic assumptions of a civilization are visibly disproving themselves. This is such a time, in case you haven’t noticed.

The claim that “technology is value-free” is fatuous nonsense... individual technologies embody the values and goals of their designers... Look at the suite of technologies used by a person or a culture, and it’s an easy matter to divine the values that person or that culture holds... the values and goals our technologies reveal to the world are a very long distance indeed from the ones we claim to embrace.

Tools for the transition

Progress and apocalypse. Christian myths. Reshaping Christian myths under the veil of materialism. Progress, the religion of the industrial society.