Failed human-technology relationships produce a mythical, collapse-prone everyday life.
Evidence
The collapse of both humanity and the earth was made possible by a failure of man’s relationship to technology, which had produced a mythical form of everyday life. At this critical moment, it was possible to see those moments of the past (more exactly, of the nineteenth century) at which technology had still seemed to be able to break through the comfort and dull contentment of those with private wealth. At such moments, forms of art appeared which, instead of ignoring the (destructive) developments in technology that had formed the background to the nineteenth century, aimed to make the vast technical equipment of their time into the very nerves of humanity. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 834
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Modernity’s ending is the loss of belief in human control over existence. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 435; Faulty tools lead to repeated failures in life choices. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 300; Bad luck can lead to cascading failures in rural life. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 243
Broader Connections
- Faulty tools lead to repeated failures in life choices.
#exemplifies(0.80) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 300 - Modernity’s ending is the loss of belief in human control over existence.
#complicates(0.72) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 435 - Bad luck can lead to cascading failures in rural life.
#exemplifies(0.72) — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 243