Comment by simianwords
1 day ago
Not true, it is usually technology that changes politics and not the other way round (though it is reflexive in practice).
The type of politics possible under agriculture is different from one in industrial age.
1 day ago
Not true, it is usually technology that changes politics and not the other way round (though it is reflexive in practice).
The type of politics possible under agriculture is different from one in industrial age.
Technology has no agency. It's merely a word for all the knowledge and tools that people use. The root of it is what people do with and to each other. A bigger lever doesn't change the fundamental fact that there is a person using it to move other people. Whatever the tool, whatever the technique, the thing that people want to distract you from when they put technology front and center is that someone somewhere is making a choice that impacts other people when they use technology. It is always someone's choice that causes things to go how they go in society and in the economy, not the shape or nature of the tools or technique that they use.