THE HEGEMONY OF TECHNOLOGY AND CONSERVATISM
THE HEGEMONY OF TECHNOLOGY AND CONSERVATISM

Summary/Abstract: Modernity and technology are closely related to one another. When modernization began in the middle of the 18th century, it was followed almost immediately and in the closest way by the rapid technical development. The movement of modernity profoundly transformed all segments of experiential reality. It transformed politics, religion and philosophy, among other things. It also changed many of the basic conditions of society. However, nowhere, in any field of human activities, did it result in such profound changes as in the general way of human life, which had previously existed in people’s specific and close dependence on nature, regardless of worldview, religion or ideology. The drive for self-mastery has had immense and often unintended consequences. In this paper, the intention is to demonstrate some of the „inevitable consequences” of modernity’s technical hubris and the shortcomings of techno-utopianist’s “pervasive technology” from a decidedly conservative point of view. Furthermore, there is an arguing that the “Luddite” or machine-destroying attitude towards technology is not the primary objective of the conservative, that is, maintenance of a purely instrumental relationship with technology, reducing it back to technique, while preserving one’s inner spiritual and mental integrity.

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