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> the state is a technology. It was developed by our ancestors to solve certain problems.

More like a compromise between thugs. It solves problems only for those with the leverage to negotiate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta



Right but that's still a technology. It's designed and created by man.


Well, yeah, you could say that, but it's just a word, it explains nothing. Golem is a technology too, designed and created by man, maybe you've heard tales about that thing and remember what usually happens to its creator. Telling people that government (or "democracy", or whatever this thing is called in propaganda textbooks) is "just a technology" today is just some mantra to make listener feel safe and relaxed, to make him feel he is in control, while he clearly isn't.


It's not a mantra. It's a defined word that contains no judgment of the particular technology.

I think of it much along the lines of Kevin Kelly's "What Technology Wants" and his "Technium". Technology is an extension of evolution. A constitution is as much a technology as the alphabet or an iPhone. All have positives and negatives.




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