“The truth is that many of the qualities we admire in human beings can only function in opposition to some kind of disaster, pain, or difficulty; but the tendency of mechanical progress is to eliminate disaster, pain, and difficulty” 

—George “Fuck Technology” Orwell

What’s your gut reaction?

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counterexample would be honesty and self awareness, which technology doesn’t really impact and also is self-driven versus a reaction to something

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well take honesty: your ability to not lie or be up front to others doesn’t change with different technology really. I guess it’s a bit set against bad things…living an honest life might be like Augustinian absence of dishonesty type thing. But someone can be an honest person without reacting to bad

Can you expand on that?

My instinct is to point out that technological distribution has both helped and hurt both of those features in myriad ways but want to hear more