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Paul Kingsnorth: science can never replace the mythic

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

CHAPTER

The Myth of Development

It's quite often an elite view that these more simple things are desirable, he says. To someone who is coming out of poverty, say, rural poverty, the invention of a flushing toilet or technology can feel incredibly exciting and liberating. But there's a difference between an appropriate technology that makes somebody's life better and a technology that sucks them into a matrix of control. It's not a conversation about how technology gives you wealth, otherwise you have to be poor; it's really a conversation about power and control.

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