All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace Part 2 The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace Part 2 The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts Part 2 The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts Part two shows how the modern scientific perspective of the natural world is actually a machine fantasy. It has little to do with the reality of nature. It is based on mechanistic ideas that were projected on to the natural world in the 1950s by scientists: That nature is a giant cybernetic machine of order that sees humans, and everyone else on the planet, as merely cogs in that machine. In an age disillusioned with modern politics, these ideas began to take on a new appeal, as the selfregulating ecosystem model became the basis for the utopian vision of society where technocrats would provide new ways of governing without leaders or politics, along with global visions of connectivity analogous to the Gaia theory. These ideas emerged out of the hippie communes in the United States in the 1960s and from counterculture computer scientists who believed that
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