Jul 24, 2021
The moral significance of work that grapples with material things may lie in the simple fact that such things lie outside the self. A washing machine, for example, surely exists to serve our needs, but in contending with one that is broken, you have to ask what it needs. At such a moment, technology is no longer a means by which our mastery of the world is extended, but an affront to our usual self-absorption.
Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft, getting into what I was saying in that post about Tolkien view of technology, that technology doesn’t just separate man from his environment but also makes him engage with reality on a more concrete level
