It’s always a jarring disconnect in reasoning that the salient point:
> The economic machine made us cogs within the system, replaced human fulfilment with plastic-wrapped substitutes, and paved paradise to put up a parking lot. We must resist the uncritical adoption of “progress” as an ethical goal in itself.
would somehow lead to:
> So let’s send bombs to completely irrelevant parties.
atlgator · 3h ago
That was my takeaway as well. But it's a good intellectual exercise to set aside the latter and entertain the idea of the former independently. A shocking number of people cannot do that.
> The economic machine made us cogs within the system, replaced human fulfilment with plastic-wrapped substitutes, and paved paradise to put up a parking lot. We must resist the uncritical adoption of “progress” as an ethical goal in itself.
would somehow lead to:
> So let’s send bombs to completely irrelevant parties.