
Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization - Part 1
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The Enlightenment and the Machine Mind
Magic becomes science by way of a regimented analysis of the private into a publicly accessible format. The machine mind does is it takes things finds a way to quantify them often by way of just cutting off everything that can't be quantified via usage of its language and then presents the other thing as public science. We are we believe we're in control of some abstract realm which we believe to be abstract yet it's still a contingent on our development but it's what's really happened in the enlightenment when atheism is on the rise we're moving away from faith nature is proclaiming the death of God, he says.
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