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Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men – machine men with machine minds and machine hearts
The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin
The prophecies of George Orwell have been realized Cameras, gadgets and sensors colonize every part of our bodies The Machine slowly creeps in, gradually but deliberately It watches you, tracks you, measures your every move We surrender privacy and freedom for the sake of efficiency, progress and 'human optimization' Everyone thinks the same, acts the same, is the same - copies of copies of copies What is beauty? What is justice? What is wisdom? My questions go unanswered as the crowd remain mesmerized by the shiny black gadgets in their hands The preachers of Silicon Valley promise salvation, heaven on earth - immortality Technology is their saving grace Everything they say can be bought Everything they say is just a click away Dissent is swallowed by the Machine, repurposed…
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A Life of Virtue: Philosophy as a Way of Life 
do you chat with Snow Cone Diaries? he writes a pretty smart and astute blog…. hope so!
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I don’t but thank you for the recommendation, I will check them out!
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Machines are just machines, it is the creator who is the problem.
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To put it into philosophical language, I think technology/machines benefit us when they are used as ‘means to an end’ rather than ‘ends in themselves’.
Hope you are well:)
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How do you stop it? You need your generation to put a stop to it or there is no end ________________________________
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