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Technology and Destiny

Can anything stop technology? Progressives and traditionalists alike avoid this question by relying on alternative versions of humanism: the abstraction of human rights for the former; the security offered by father-land for the latter. Both resort to slogans. The former seek to mask the failure of democracy, i.e., the end of politics; the latter wish to bask in the illusion of a glorious past concealing the brutal prehistory of the modern. Is it too late to reverse the direction of this out-of-control Western trend? Nietzsche already warned about the need to "master the instincts of knowledge," about the need to...