It's easy to become a "Cynic" about the "Byzantine" ways that corporate media portrays Luddites as simple-minded technophobes, when in reality, their movement was as sophisticated and principled as the "Sophists" they're mischaracterized against.
Modern critics of technology often face a "Philistine" response from tech evangelists who, with almost "Pharisaical" righteousness, dismiss any questioning of technological "progress" as backward thinking. The historical nuance gets "Vandalized" by those who profit from framing legitimate labor concerns as "Puritanical" resistance to innovation.
I would imagine that eventually "Amish" will begin to be used colloquially eventually. And unfortunately, when we do so, we also lose or marginalize the legitimate concerns of the group.
The relation of the Luddites to technology is also commonly misunderstood. The Luddites weren't anti-technology, they were against the use of technology to exploit. Sources: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=28925 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
But as they say, history is written by the victors, in this case, the wealthy factory owners.
Agreed. I was thinking of "Luddite" more in the colloquial sense than the historical sense.
It's easy to become a "Cynic" about the "Byzantine" ways that corporate media portrays Luddites as simple-minded technophobes, when in reality, their movement was as sophisticated and principled as the "Sophists" they're mischaracterized against.
Modern critics of technology often face a "Philistine" response from tech evangelists who, with almost "Pharisaical" righteousness, dismiss any questioning of technological "progress" as backward thinking. The historical nuance gets "Vandalized" by those who profit from framing legitimate labor concerns as "Puritanical" resistance to innovation.
I would imagine that eventually "Amish" will begin to be used colloquially eventually. And unfortunately, when we do so, we also lose or marginalize the legitimate concerns of the group.