Mind those metaphors…
July 2, 2009 12:15 amThe record of technology as a science–relieving human beings of specific burdens and diseases–is splendid. The record of technology as a metaphor for being human is disastrous. When technology is used to win wars it becomes the atomic bomb. When it is used to control human sexuality, it becomes the destruction of millions of unborn lives and, in contraception, all too often fosters the disengagement of fruitfulness from love.
The biggest cultural mistake we can indulge in is to yearn for technological “solutions” to our deepest cultural “problems.”~Andy Crouch, Culture Making
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
Author: Andy Crouch
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