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  Thursday, January 23, 2003

Responses to themes in Habits of the High-Tech Heart

Collection of articles responding to Habits of the High-Tech Heart (to you Radio users,  these are stories)
Review of the Forward (Habits of the High-Tech Heart) | Schultze Preface | Intro: Identifying the Techno-Moral CrisisDiscerning Our InformationismModerating Our Informational Desires | Instantaneous vs Infoglut |My problem with anti-Net culture rhetoric | Legitimate Theological and Sociological Exploration of Online Community |Speech vs Online Interaction | Too Quick to Judge | There's Really a 'There' There | Good Stewards of Online Community


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10:36:30 AM    
Conclusion of Book Leaves Me Unsettled

Therefore,  we need again to reconcile our embellishments of technology with the reality of what it means to be human.  In spite of all  of the changes in human culture and society over the millennia,  human nature remains essentially the same.

In this from the conclusion of the final chapter of the book, Sojourning With Heart,  Schultze here affirms something that reveals a major flaw ,  from my perspective,  in the tone of the book's approach.  It seems to render moot the constant barrage of demonization of nearly all aspects of online communication,  becasue after all,  human beings and human nature haven't changed that much.  For centuries before the Internet,  people were "objectifying" truth and centering "truth" in the pages of a book,   and deifying interpretation rather than inspiration.  We see this in fundamentalism,  such as in the arrogance of Southern Baptist leadership today who have the audacity to "require" particular interpretations of their various agency and institutional leaders.  This is an "instrumentalism" in the guise of virtue.  It's been happening for centuries.

Read on in Good Stewards of Online Community


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