Technonomicon: Technology, Nature, Ascesis:
- Many people are concerned today with harmony with nature. And indeed there is quite a lot to living according to nature.
- But you will not find something that is missing by looking twice as hard in the wrong place, and it matters where one seeks harmony with nature. In monasticism, the man of virtue is the quintessential natural man. And there is something in monasticism that is behind stories of the monk who can approach boar or bear.
- Being out of harmony with nature is not predominantly a lack of time in forests. There is a deeper root.
- Exercising is better than living a life without exercise. But there is something missing in a sedentary life with artificially added exercise, after, for centuries, we have worked to avoid the strenuous labor that most people have had to do.
- It is as if people had worked for centuries to make the perfect picnic and finally found a way to have perfectly green grass at an even height, a climate controlled environment with sunlight and just the right amount of cloud, and many other things. Then people find that something is missing in the perfect picnic, and say that there might be wisdom in the saying, "No picnic is complete without ants." So they carefully engineer a colony of ants to add to the picnic.
About The Book
Title: The Luddite’s Guide to Technology
Author: CJS Hayward
Genre: creative non-fiction / religion and spirituality / technology – social aspects
Mammon, as it is challenged in the
Sermon on the Mount, represents such wealth and possessions as one could
have two thousand years ago. But that is merely beer as contrasted to
the eighty proof whisky our day has concocted. The Sermon on the Mount
aims to put us in the driver’s seat and not what you could possess in
ancient times, and if the Sermon on the Mount says something about
metaphorical beer, perhaps there are implications for an age where
something more like eighty proof whisky is all around us.
Author Bio
Christos
Jonathan Seth Hayward wears many hats as a person: author, philosopher,
theologian, artist, poet, wayfarer, philologist, inventor, web guru,
teacher.
Some have asked, “If a much lesser C.S. Lewis were Orthodox, what would he be like?” And the answer may well be, “CJS Hayward.”
Hayward has lived in the U.S., Malaysia,
England, and France, and holds master’s degrees bridging math and
computers (UIUC), and philosophy and theology (Cambridge).
Links
http://amazon.com/author/cjshayward
