What's Wrong With Society?

Part 6B. The Machine.

Kingsnorth describes the machine as follows:

“The ultimate project of modernity, I have come believe, is to replace nature with technology, and to rebuild the world in purely human shape, the better to fulfill the most ancient human dream: to become gods. What I call the Machine is the nexus of power, wealth, ideology and technology that has emerged to make this happen.“

At the heart of the machine, is the answer to the question, what does it mean to be human?

Kingsnorth again…

“[the machine's]modus operandi is the abolition of all borders, boundaries, categories, essences and truths: the uprooting of all previous ways of living in the name of pure individualism and perfect subjectivity. We are not made by the world now; we make it. And we can make anything we want. Or so we want to believe.”

There are things we can do to live in the machine but not be a part of the machine (in the world, but not of the world).