User:Ssstephen/Reading/Technology & Ethos

it has been written

If I invented a word placing machine, an “expression-scriber,” if  you  will, then I would have a kind of instrument into which I could step & sit or sprawl or hang & use not only my fingers to make words express feelings but elbows, feet, head, behind, and all the sounds I wanted, screams, grunts, taps, itches

Yes for sure but also the body writes, the body reads, another approach is to reveal the technology that is already there as something real in the world, that can really be touched. It is touched through a narrow predefined route but this route can be carved out (maybe easier than creating a completely new route).

we must be “free from the oppressor’s spirit,” as well.

This is a good goal but he keeps defining us in opposition to Western, so it sounds like it is still a few steps away. For now (forever?) we have to navigate the world as it exists to be able to create the world as it should be.

See everything fresh and “without form”–then make forms that will express us truthfully and totally and by this certainly free us eventually.

I agree, but this can be painful and insensitive to people, is it right to see a bomb as a potential firework? Is it good to look for constructive power or beauty in evil or danger? What can we make out of NFTs? What can we make out of corporate space races? If we keep putting flowers in guns what will happen?

The technology itself must represent human striving. It must represent at each point the temporary perfection of the evolutional man. And be obsolete only because nothing is ever perfect, the only constant is change

This has always been our goal, we will keep making mistakes, we will keep improving? This sounds really optimistic and reckless I dunno.