Showing posts with label whitehead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label whitehead. Show all posts

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Technology worship breeds weeds we outta strangle. My vote for slower growing science

Ellul and Whitehead wouldn't probably be too surprised at the cul de sac we find ourselves in in 2014 . We talk science but we don't live it .Our kids aren't studying the hard stuff and we don't insist they do. ( not thinking clearly!) We talk love of science when Ellul said we really love technology.We invest out time and energy in thinking technology and not science os jobs in science go elsewhere and we try to live trying to manage the machinery.
 Our non scientist leaders tell us to worship something they don't understand . If our leaders really were rational and out front  they would tell us to listen to scientists and study the subject to make sure we were following the rules - hard work,  building and slow progress .
Instead we have our societies rushing to invest in the lastest  theory and substance.
We have Our ABC  advocating the Gospel of Grace by Change alone . .The presenters  don't study science and the substance of good things well enough to know that many good things don't change in nature ,  but often only change in name.

If they understood what they were doing better they would help us invest in reform rather than turn the past into refuse wasting money in reinventing, not reusing  and revolutions that go nowhere sustainable


You'll know if you read any of my stuff that I see us disippating our kids future and creating a  really flat wasteland of worshipful change .
To rework Hamlet

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the abuses of technology in this world!
Fie on ’t, ah fie! 'Tis ( still )  an unweeded garden
That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature


Possess it merely as a tool.    

(Not quite the meaning but it will do )
and get on with trainng as we once did ( Physics and Chemistry) for true sustainability