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Life Without Technology w/ Author Eric Brende

New Polity

CHAPTER

The Pros and Cons of Catholicism

Grant: I was not even Catholic before. At that point in life, I was kind of an agnostic. So if you would like anyone to come to university and start a literary and purely cultural view of the great texts of history, call New Quality. The professors who taught the course were so talented at showing how modern technology goes against the Catholic tradition and goes against nature. That was our main argument. If the purpose of a machine is to take away work from us, it's depriving us of our purpose and life. It doesn't save us time and transit at all. In fact, to me, I picture it this way... A car is like a backwards automobile. Yes

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