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Technology (what is to be) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - These vast corporate entities are unelected and therefore unimpeachable. They are, therefore, not just too big to fail, but too big to control, and therefore too big to resist
      - Democracy
- - - - H.G Wells "The world brain"
  - - - The culmination of the Enlightenment project. Rendering us all, in an ontological sense, equal
- - - - The concept of human rights has become so vast, that the rights themselves reach the point of being incommensurable. So much can be couched as a human rights claim that it threatens to subsume entirely the habits and practices of democratic deliberation; or at least on issues where we hold the moral substance of people in our hands, for example the Voice to parliament issue in Australia
        
        Virtue Signalling
        
        intersectionality, standpoint positionality, microaggressions, anti-racism, systemic racism, transphobia, cisgendered, gender-affirming, heteronormativity, pansexual, patriarchal hegemony, nonbinaries, postcolonialism, and trigger warnings,
        
        Perceived injustices and harms to the victims have led to a proselytizing fervor that amplifies and eclipses the public discourse
- - - - Manifests technologically by
      - Affects us by
        
        Moral philosopher Alisdair Macintyre in his 1968 book Christianity and Marxism observed that capitalist society engages a full pedagogical machinery to manufacture the sort of political subjects and moral bodies that are capable of succeeding within capitalism.
        
        We do not, it seems to me, naturally thrive within capitalism, we need to be remade to come to value the practices and dispositions that have, for nearly all of human history, were great vices (namely lack of self control).
        
        Capitalism was about not about the power and will of the state to fashion us into a certain kind of human being, but instead allows us to discover ourselves or some version of ourselves, or be influenced by a series of intersubjective encounters in which we pursue our own interests, but actually no one is in charge of it. Hence America’s promise overseas that once you overthrow the dictator, what lies beneath is american capitalism.
    - - Commodification of our digital exhaust