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The War on Reality, Mary Harrington & Paul Kingsnorth

Rebel Wisdom

CHAPTER

The Project of Modernity Is to Build a Machine to Replace God

i'm talking about this giant, techno, industrial monstrosity that is in our heads and in the world. And we've decided that through the use of technology, science and reason, we can effectively build a new world which doesn't seem to limit us in any way. Any limits at all are disgraceful chains that prevent us from being free and rational in individuals. So i think it's a big, it's just a very big, very old way of seeing that is manifesting itself in insilican and plastic all around us.

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