Anne’s Reviews > Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity > Status Update

"In a world in which this Machine consciousness is propgated daily to us through digital technology each time we gaze at a screen, the irrational, illogical world of beauty, wild nature, and spiritual truth becomes literally impossible for us to experience, for it cannot be quantified--and therefore doesn't exist."

"Fairly advanced technological knowledge can be traced back to the earliest civilisations. The difference between us and them was that they often chose not to use it....This was because [the technology] required treating matter is if it were no longer the dwelling place of spirit, but as if it were simple mass with little more to it than extension, density, and weight."