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The Informed Preference for Permanence (Principles of Technoskepticism, Part Three)

Our technological mindset leads to an “enforced impermanence” as the new is always prioritized over the old. The resultant rootlessness and churn contributes to a sense of disequilibrium while keeping us apart from the steadying forces of tradition and wisdom.

By David A. J. Reynolds | March 21, 2018 | Agriculture, Philosophy, Society | Agribusiness, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, C.S. Lewis, Capitalism, Change, Chronological Snobbery, Communism, Connection, Culture, Czechoslovakia, Despoliation, Disequilibrium, Disorientation, Ecology, Edmund Burke, Family Farms, Farming, Fashion, Groundedness, Heritage, History, Impermanence, Inheritance, Inhumanity, Jan Patočka, Machines, Manipulation, Meaning, Michael Hanby, Michael Oakeshott, Modernity, Modernization, Nature, Newness, Obsolescence, Permanence, Presence, Presentism, Productivity, Reality, Roger Kimball, Roger Scruton, Soil, Stability, Standing Reserve, T.S. Eliot, Time, Tradition, Vaclav Havel, Value, Wisdom
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