New technology hardens souls and destroys values even as it increases bounty.
Evidence
Technics, as a universe of instrumentalities, may increase the weakness as well as the power of man. At the present stage, he is perhaps more powerless over his own apparatus than he ever was before. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 822 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
The incessant dynamic of technical progress has become permeated with political content, and the Logos of technics has been made into the Logos of continued servitude. The liberating force of technology—the instrumentalization of things—turns into a fetter of liberation; the instrumentalization of man. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 589 (
#expands, via linked claim)
In my previous book Status and Culture, I argued that the easy acquisition of information and goods on the internet destroyed an important source of cultural value and elevated money to the supreme status symbol. Between this structural shift and a full rationalization of the culture industry, the system is certainly stacked against the creation of pure art. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 848 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Technology’s liberating instrumentalization of things becomes a fetter enslaving man. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 589; Technology can increase human weakness even as it increases power — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 822; Internet-enabled easy acquisition destroyed cultural value and elevated money as status symbol. — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 848 (+1 more)
Related
- Technology can increase human weakness even as it increases power (similarity 0.84)
- Hesiod already feared technology’s power to corrupt human restraint and values (similarity 0.82)
- Technology’s liberating instrumentalization of things becomes a fetter enslaving man. (similarity 0.82)
- Internet-enabled easy acquisition destroyed cultural value and elevated money as status symbol. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Technology can increase human weakness even as it increases power
#corroborates(0.93) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 822 - Technology’s liberating instrumentalization of things becomes a fetter enslaving man.
#expands(0.92) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 589 - Internet-enabled easy acquisition destroyed cultural value and elevated money as status symbol.
#exemplifies(0.85) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 848