Technology tends to absorb everything into its ironclad logic, and those who are surrounded with technology \u201cknow full well that it moves forward in the final analysis neither for profit nor for the well-being of the human race\u201d, that \u201cin the most radical sense of the term power is its motive \u2013 a lordship over all\u201d.<\/span>[87]<\/a>\u00a0As a result, \u201cman seizes hold of the naked elements of both nature and human nature\u201d.<\/span>[88]<\/a>\u00a0Our capacity to make decisions, a more genuine freedom and the space for each one\u2019s alternative creativity are diminished.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now these four false gods abide: honor, money, pleasure and power. \u00a0But the greatest of these is power.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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