tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37352287.post1796132562492115606..comments2023-11-03T11:11:57.989+01:00Comments on Chronicles from the Front: Unbounded scientific geniusLazy Disciplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05839410764981702225noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37352287.post-27762035634014636742008-11-09T15:21:00.000+01:002008-11-09T15:21:00.000+01:00I am reminded of the old cant about mankind coming...I am reminded of the old cant about mankind coming to administer things so well that the need for governance would disappear. This is the abolition of man. I am ceaselessly amazed at the fact that Cicero translated Aristotle's zoon politikon as animal socialis. Human society is essentially political, even though the mundanely political is not the horizon of man's existence. The civitas Dei is a civitas, and CHrist is King. The idea that the perfection of human existence is a-political or trans-political, is one of the most dangerous, indeed pernicious ideas with which Catholic thinkers have toyed and by which some of them have been infected, during the past 70 years.Lazy Disciplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05839410764981702225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37352287.post-83599854315747542232008-11-09T14:17:00.000+01:002008-11-09T14:17:00.000+01:00At some point, our culture will have to face the f...At some point, our culture will have to face the fact that technology needs to be governed, and that this is always a human responsibility.CDEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01442791960391683444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37352287.post-71119191039067365532008-11-09T08:42:00.000+01:002008-11-09T08:42:00.000+01:00I shudder to think of the misapplications of such ...I shudder to think of the misapplications of such technology, as I shudder to think of the technology that would be needed for oversight of such technology, and the technology that would in turn be needed to oversee the oversight technology...ad infinitum.<BR/><BR/>In sum, the (ascendant) technocracy frightens me!Lazy Disciplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05839410764981702225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37352287.post-3184860684381663252008-11-08T19:36:00.000+01:002008-11-08T19:36:00.000+01:00Now if Blogger software could just scan the brains...Now if Blogger software could just scan the brains of people about to post in the comments box, and reject comments automatically, we might be getting somewhere. :)CDEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01442791960391683444noreply@blogger.com