Star Man
06-01-2014, 04:54 PM
Dear WaccoBB netizens. The remarks below were elicited by an article in Truthout entitled "The Politics of Disposability (https://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23998-disposable-futures)" by Henry Giroux and Brad Evans that you can access here: https://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23998-disposable-futures
The politics of disposability is the direct result of the machinification of our civilization. Marked by the invention of the steam engine in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen, a new kingdom of energy processors appeared on the planet, the Machineae. From the perspective of evolution, all life on the planet consists of energy processors. Whether using sunlight directly or chemical bond energy, biological organisms have evolved myriad forms to do work whether crawling, wriggling, slithering, flying, walking, swimming, flying, thinking, and reproducing among others. The forms of life were organized into six kingdoms: viruses, monads (bacteria) protists (single-celled organisms), plants, fungi, animals. With the steam engine, for the first time, evolution was facilitated by human beings. A new, seventh, kingdom of energy processors was created, and the evolution of these energy processors was accelerated within the environment of capitalism. Facilitated evolution has given us cell phones, television, hydrogen bombs, automobiles, AK-47s, Glocks, computers, satellites, and autonomous robots including nanobots.
Human cultures have been invaded by an alien species of our own creation: the machines. Just as invasion of South American and Native American tribes by foreigners with a difference culture destroyed the indigenous cultures, so it is that invasion of our global civilization by the machines is destroying American, Russian, European, and all other cultures the machine touches. Machines have no ethics, and America in particular has lost it ethical and moral principles. Once people had some respect for the land on which we humans and every other species relies for its existence. Machines have no respect for the environment, and so machine-driven culture has poisoned, littered, leveled, cut down, mined, warmed, acidified, and made radioactive the environment we live in. Soon, only machines will be able to survive. Same Keen spoke of the logic of Western Mythology as "erotic obsession with the machine." How tragically accurate.
Joe The Plumber perfectly illustrated the loss of compassion that emerges in a post-machinified society when he said, "The loss of your child's life does not trump my right to own guns." Another illustration: American killing machines, the Predator Drones, have eradicated entire wedding parties including children, mistaking them for terrorist targets, and the government attempted to silence those who exposed the horror, and it refused to acknowledge the atrocity. In post-machinified society, humans adopt the same compassion as the machine invaders.
Star Man
The politics of disposability is the direct result of the machinification of our civilization. Marked by the invention of the steam engine in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen, a new kingdom of energy processors appeared on the planet, the Machineae. From the perspective of evolution, all life on the planet consists of energy processors. Whether using sunlight directly or chemical bond energy, biological organisms have evolved myriad forms to do work whether crawling, wriggling, slithering, flying, walking, swimming, flying, thinking, and reproducing among others. The forms of life were organized into six kingdoms: viruses, monads (bacteria) protists (single-celled organisms), plants, fungi, animals. With the steam engine, for the first time, evolution was facilitated by human beings. A new, seventh, kingdom of energy processors was created, and the evolution of these energy processors was accelerated within the environment of capitalism. Facilitated evolution has given us cell phones, television, hydrogen bombs, automobiles, AK-47s, Glocks, computers, satellites, and autonomous robots including nanobots.
Human cultures have been invaded by an alien species of our own creation: the machines. Just as invasion of South American and Native American tribes by foreigners with a difference culture destroyed the indigenous cultures, so it is that invasion of our global civilization by the machines is destroying American, Russian, European, and all other cultures the machine touches. Machines have no ethics, and America in particular has lost it ethical and moral principles. Once people had some respect for the land on which we humans and every other species relies for its existence. Machines have no respect for the environment, and so machine-driven culture has poisoned, littered, leveled, cut down, mined, warmed, acidified, and made radioactive the environment we live in. Soon, only machines will be able to survive. Same Keen spoke of the logic of Western Mythology as "erotic obsession with the machine." How tragically accurate.
Joe The Plumber perfectly illustrated the loss of compassion that emerges in a post-machinified society when he said, "The loss of your child's life does not trump my right to own guns." Another illustration: American killing machines, the Predator Drones, have eradicated entire wedding parties including children, mistaking them for terrorist targets, and the government attempted to silence those who exposed the horror, and it refused to acknowledge the atrocity. In post-machinified society, humans adopt the same compassion as the machine invaders.
Star Man