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Americans love to blame technology for bad things when we should blame...ourselves.

Americans love to blame technology for bad things when we should blame...ourselves.

the smartphone/instagram red herring blame game

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Feb 10, 2024
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Unabomber holding smartphone - AI-generated image

You would think that, after the Unabomber, anyone would think at least ten times before laying moral blame at the foot of “technology” broadly defined, let alone any specific technology. I thought we had finally had enough of Luddite ideology. Ted Kaczynski’s 35,000-word manifesto against Industrial Socie…

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