I have been a luddite, an anti-tech person, all of my life. This blog is filled with posts about the problems technology creates, as well as, the dangers it poses. Hit the label 'technology kills' below to read some of them.
Today, the Guardian ran an opinion piece 'The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms' on how a backlash against technology running over everyday life is beginning to bubble up. Saying it is not a turn to atheism but rather,
it’s what can be loosely termed “spirituality” – a devotion to astrology, witchcraft, magic and manifestation – that has emerged, particularly among the young. Online life, paradoxically enough, has only catalyzed this spirituality more, with teenage TikTok occultists and “manifesting” influencers racking up ever more followers.
Noting that the influencers against the Industrial Revolution were the poets and painters of the Romantic Age. People like Mary Shelly who wrote Frankenstein to highlight the fright of technology.
No doubt the onslaught of technology has been ferocious these past past few decades--Internet, cell phones, social media....and we are in need of a respite. But will it be more?
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The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms
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