We are repeatedly assured—quietly, implicitly—that technology is beneficial, inevitable, and continuous. Accepting this assurance has become a mark of sophistication, a moral alibi that aligns seamlessly—and not accidentally—with reverence for wealth and the wealthy. What enriches those at the top is treated as evidence of correctness. Profit becomes a proxy for proof. Wealth no longer […]
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Technological Gullibility
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- Post date Dec 25, 2025
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- Tags abstraction and control, accountability and responsibility, capital and legitimacy, coherence as validation, coherence vs truth, correspondence theory, critical theory technology, cybersecurity philosophy, deferred cost, deferred harm, description vs experience, digital capitalism, epistemic authority, field logic, hyper-capitalism, hypercapitalism, identity systems, inequality as control, institutional inertia, meaning and coherence, momentum over outcomes, narratives of progress, profit as proof, progress myth, selective accounting, semantic coherence, social trust erosion, sociotechnical systems, surveillance capitalism, systemic risk, systems inertia, systems theory, techno-ideology, technological gullibility, technological inevitability myth, technology and power, technology critique, wealth and epistemic power, wealth and power
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