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From: Yorikke4/22/2022 1:42:29 PM
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Who is the monster? Who is the victim?

https://www.theepochtimes.com/myths-for-our-times-frankenstein-and-the-age-of-technology_4412299.html

Why does nearly everyone mistake the monster for the master? One element of the answer is this: The confusion arises because at some deep psychological or spiritual level there is a transference of blame. Without going into the intricacies of the plot, which lead the monster to becoming a murderer (following the murder by Victor Frankenstein of the bride-to-be of “Adam,” the new “Eve”), I am saying that this transference of blame is what society wants. The object becomes the guilty party, not the subject who creates it. Put even more simply, society does not want to blame science and technology for the monstrosities because it, or key sections of it, relishes the power and the benefits that science and technology bring.

Thus, we opine: Aren’t nuclear weapons awful? Isn’t biological and chemical warfare inhuman and inhumane? Why not ban dreadful pesticides that pollute the earth? And so on. But who are creating these things? Why blame the product (the object) when the creator (the subject) has invested it with all its destructive properties?

In short, we exculpate the scientists and the technocrats, and in this way, we authorize their further “advances” into technologies that are potentially ruinous for mankind and the planet. And we ironically call it “progress.”
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