RE: https://social.coop/@MichaelTBacon/116551245020135214
Because it's Sunday, I'm going to put this another way with a scriptural reference.
You can't use a sword as a plowshare (the cutting part of a plow). It's the wrong shape, doesn't have a curve, and will probably break after a couple of passes through hard soil.
To fulfill Isaiah's prophesy that "they will beat their swords into ploughshares" one doesn't simply put the sword onto a plow handle and go at it. It requires smiths' forges, skilled smiths who knows how to make plows, people who are ready to give up their swords, and people who want plows to use. Those imply ethics, politics, and collective action.
Current social technology has become violent. It can be remade. But it requires ethics, politics, and collective action.
@mekkaokereke this is where I have to say yes and, as Latour said, technology is society made durable.
Current technology is a problem because it embodies sociopathic politics. You can have a different technology and it might adapt currently dominant technology, but that requires politics and intention.
