Love this it cuts straight to what is currently happening in the world. I haven't read any Whitehead is there a particular text you are reading? What you have written here also reminds me of the C.S. Lewis essay The Abolition of Man, some quotes,
From this point of view, what we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with nature as its instrument.”
“For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means, as we have seen, the power of some men to make other men what they please.”
“I am very doubtful whether history shows us one example of a man who, having stepped outside traditional morality and attained power, has used that power benevolently.”
“For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men: the solution is a technique; and both in the practice of this technique, are ready to do things hitherto regarded as disgusting and impious.
and from Frank Herbert, Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
Love this it cuts straight to what is currently happening in the world. I haven't read any Whitehead is there a particular text you are reading? What you have written here also reminds me of the C.S. Lewis essay The Abolition of Man, some quotes,
From this point of view, what we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with nature as its instrument.”
“For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means, as we have seen, the power of some men to make other men what they please.”
“I am very doubtful whether history shows us one example of a man who, having stepped outside traditional morality and attained power, has used that power benevolently.”
“For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men: the solution is a technique; and both in the practice of this technique, are ready to do things hitherto regarded as disgusting and impious.
and from Frank Herbert, Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
Thanks Andrew! I haven't read much C.S. Lewis but I'm going to look up that essay.
I'm reading Whitehead's 'Process and Reality,' which is fairly daunting, and for lighter reading his 'Adventures of Ideas.'