[lit-ideas] Geary on Instrumental Technological Rationality
- From: jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:47:21 -0400
"as one who makes his living doing things to things I
think of thinking as thinging. "
This is important. I cannot conceive of a human being (not a thing,
really) just thinging. Take an Air Conditioner Repair Man (or Person).
Surely he needs permission (by a nonthing = person) to get in, and
he´ll need the payment from the person (not thing).
There are very few things we do to things. Take a sheep, and suppose
it´s a thing. Someone makes love to the non-thing. It turns out it
belongs to an ancestor of Ritchie (in Lake of Lammermuir Hills), so
what you are doing is something to the Laird of Lammermuir.
In fact, it is ab reductio impossible to do a thing to a thing. Even
walking the moon has now been americanized.
Cheers,
JLS
Villa Speranza, Bordighera
jlsperanza at aol.com
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