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[NoOneMan]

31. Technophilia is becoming a religious movement

And not a helpful one at that...

We have a track record of watching technology correlate to increased energy consumption, but I don't think anyone can objectively prove this comes with a measurable amount of increased aggregate happiness.

Yet the technophile always believes we are on some linear path to some greater Good (like Singularity), which technology will bestow upon us if we keep trotting down the same path of consumption. To a technophile, all technology is good, and brings happiness, and to some extent, justifies the necessary ecological breakdown it requires. Technology has become a benevolent deity surrounded by fantasy.

Technophilia also creates theodicies. It isn't lifestyle or consumption that is the problem and reason for our plight, but rich anti-progress people who are the problem. Technophilia convinces people they do not have to change their habits, but only have faith technology will fix them and bring social change to fix society once the anti-progress people are eliminated.

Its alluring, because it offers distracting toys and hope of a better world without any modification of behavior; it fits perfectly in a growingly secular cultural narrative. It suggests we are on some great path, at a very far point, right next to imminent global salvation. And all we have to do to obtain it is nothing...except buy more iPhones and buy technology so developers keep innovating for profit.

Technophilia is a lesser religion IMO. Its a fabrication by the followers of Money. They've created to give to the people to keep them consuming blindly, and happily. In any case, it convinces us to be passive in the fight and have faith. It is the enemy of the earth.