Bro, I think I just figured something out. Technology affects not only our ability to act on the world, but the lens through which we see the world as it acts on us. Our mind doesn’t differentiate between the patterns of thought which we learn to operate technology and the patterns of thought we use to navigate the rest of our life.
Seems like there’s implications there in terms of modern tech being created by and for a capitalist system.
Wait, you mean to tell me that the production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness, is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men, the language of real life? And that conceiving, thinking, the mental intercourse of men, appear at this stage as the direct efflux of their material behaviour?
Bro, I think I just figured something out. Technology affects not only our ability to act on the world, but the lens through which we see the world as it acts on us. Our mind doesn’t differentiate between the patterns of thought which we learn to operate technology and the patterns of thought we use to navigate the rest of our life.
Seems like there’s implications there in terms of modern tech being created by and for a capitalist system.
this is how and why language can constrain as much as it liberates. language is as much a technology as any other human invention.
Wait, you mean to tell me that the production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness, is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men, the language of real life? And that conceiving, thinking, the mental intercourse of men, appear at this stage as the direct efflux of their material behaviour?
Someone should write a book on that!
:curious-marx: