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Main Problem
What does it mean to be a man in a technologically
encroached Industrial society?
1. We forgotten, or do not know, or a doubtful of what it means to be man. Therefore there is a
need to revisit the meaning of what it is exactly to be one, in order to that we need to revisit the
meaning of being understood and reflected upon the given the environment that we are beset
with, that is a technologically encroached environment.
Types of Societies
Developing countries/ societies /states
Physical sufferings, food, infrastructure, and transportation, relatively harder way or less conviniet
way of living.
Developed countries/ societies /states
A hosts of psychological problems beneath the seemingly an easier-going way of life.
Disrupted power structure
Oversocialized Individuals
Prominence of Leftists Ideology
Characterized by
Feelings of Inferiority [10]
Oversocialized
Man is trained to fit in.
4. AUTONOMY
procrastination
In the absence of real goals that require effort, like finding food, building shelter
and exercising one’s freedom of choice to the fullest extent, one turns to these,
SURROGATE ACTIVITY. [39]
It is deemed surrogate if, he feels deprived of not achieving or completing his
activity, even when there is need for him to provide and sustain his biological
needs that make use of his mental and physical faculties.
Browsing the internet, Procrastinating, doing nothing, etc.
Even ACTUAL Jobs, probably.[40]
Small-scale Technologies
Organization-Dependent Technologies
Reform
Can take a lot of time
Not that effective
Technology disrupts the power process by: