Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 04:11:16 -0800 (PST)
From: rutger h cornets de groot <cornets-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: FW 347


--- Mrpanzer-AT-aol.com wrote:
> methinks it may be the faith in technology for
> making lives better, that 
> somehow modernity gives meaning to life.  With
> technology, we are denying 
> that humanity is the meaning of its own existence. 
> since we do not have the 
> willpower to improve ourselves, we must simply
> improve the technology and 
> hope a side effect of the improvement will be the
> improvement of ourselves.
> 
> -Josh

To improve mankind through technology (or science) is
a wonderful idea but, unfortunately, has  proved to be
disastrous. The old alchemists were the last to think
of the development of science and mankind as one,
undivided process. The chemical processes in their
phials synchronized with their mental state of mind.
Since then, science has taken a big leap while mankind
has been lagging badly, the result of which has become
apparent, for instance, in Hiroshima.
By the way, this discrepancy between the development
of mankind and of science - in short, the
dehumanization of mankind - is a recurring theme in
virtually all of Stanley Kubricks movies. 

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