by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday March 12, 2015 @08:22PM (#49246379)
You are misusing the word "luddite". A luddite is extreme. A luddite doesn't use a typewriter, a luddite smashes your typewriter with a rock, then feels guilty for having used a rock as a tool.
You are misusing the word "luddite". A luddite is extreme. A luddite doesn't use a typewriter, a luddite smashes your typewriter with a rock, then feels guilty for having used a rock as a tool.
The Luddites weren't Amish. Even that would be a caricature of Amish beliefs. What the Luddites were against were -new- technologies taking over jobs. They were fine with the technology they already had, not so fine with shifting tides making them obsolete.
That is exactly what a Luddite was. Someone who wanted a piece of the new wealth as his job was taken from him to make others wealthy. Especially when that "someone" is most of the population and the "others" are a fraction of one percent of that population.
If you lost your job and were not a Luddite, you're either inheriting a piece of your forebearers' wealth created in boom times, or you're suicidal.
The Luddites weren't Amish. Even that would be a caricature of Amish beliefs. What the Luddites were against were -new- technologies taking over jobs. They were fine with the technology they already had, not so fine with shifting tides making them obsolete.
That's not so different from the Amish then, after all.
Amish will use new technology if it is required. The main aspect of their culture isn't specifically the avoidance of technology, but avoiding the accoutrements of pride and vanity.
If a technology is necessary and can be incorporated without disruption (or requiring a connectedness to the 'English' world) it quite often is. Refrigeration technologies powered by propane is one of the more obvious examples. Obviously it varies from sect to sect and some are more restrictive than others.
Amish don't avoid technology. They avoid any -use- of technology that they suspect will degrade the family and community units, so high tech might be fine for one situation but not for another. Therefore, a phone for socializing is no good. But a phone for emergency doctor calls is not contrary to their beliefs.
A Luddite was a worker in Victorian England who saw his livelihood and life being destroyed by industrialists who themselves became so wealthy the entire era became eventually known as the Guilded Age, as in gold.
Luddites didn't want to stop history, nor did they hate technology, or its benefits. What they WANTED was a piece of the pie that was taken from them - they wanted some relief from the horror that awaited anyone in England/Ireland/Scotland/Wales who no longer had an income. They were right; the era
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people
worry than work.
3D printed arm? (Score:0)
Or Luddite arm with Luddite motors and PCBs and Luddite batteries with 3D printed cowling?
Re: 3D printed arm? (Score:2, Funny)
You are misusing the word "luddite". A luddite is extreme. A luddite doesn't use a typewriter, a luddite smashes your typewriter with a rock, then feels guilty for having used a rock as a tool.
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You are misusing the word "luddite". A luddite is extreme. A luddite doesn't use a typewriter, a luddite smashes your typewriter with a rock, then feels guilty for having used a rock as a tool.
The Luddites weren't Amish. Even that would be a caricature of Amish beliefs. What the Luddites were against were -new- technologies taking over jobs. They were fine with the technology they already had, not so fine with shifting tides making them obsolete.
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That is exactly what a Luddite was. Someone who wanted a piece of the new wealth as his job was taken from him to make others wealthy. Especially when that "someone" is most of the population and the "others" are a fraction of one percent of that population.
If you lost your job and were not a Luddite, you're either inheriting a piece of your forebearers' wealth created in boom times, or you're suicidal.
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The Luddites weren't Amish. Even that would be a caricature of Amish beliefs. What the Luddites were against were -new- technologies taking over jobs. They were fine with the technology they already had, not so fine with shifting tides making them obsolete.
That's not so different from the Amish then, after all.
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Amish will use new technology if it is required. The main aspect of their culture isn't specifically the avoidance of technology, but avoiding the accoutrements of pride and vanity.
If a technology is necessary and can be incorporated without disruption (or requiring a connectedness to the 'English' world) it quite often is. Refrigeration technologies powered by propane is one of the more obvious examples. Obviously it varies from sect to sect and some are more restrictive than others.
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Amish don't avoid technology. They avoid any -use- of technology that they suspect will degrade the family and community units, so high tech might be fine for one situation but not for another. Therefore, a phone for socializing is no good. But a phone for emergency doctor calls is not contrary to their beliefs.
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A Luddite was a worker in Victorian England who saw his livelihood and life being destroyed by industrialists who themselves became so wealthy the entire era became eventually known as the Guilded Age, as in gold.
Luddites didn't want to stop history, nor did they hate technology, or its benefits. What they WANTED was a piece of the pie that was taken from them - they wanted some relief from the horror that awaited anyone in England/Ireland/Scotland/Wales who no longer had an income. They were right; the era