Good question.

I think I attempted to answered the question about abstinence from media, in my previous e-mail but for now I would like to focus on the ethics of technology and antitechnology of the Dadaists and Luddites.

As far has my repeatedly stress injury is concerned, I am now using voice recognition technology and so what I am saying is being typed on my screen; when a person has no legs a car is an asset. In the history of the media monopoly propagandists, the Luddites are presented as drunkards who smashed machines with sledgehammers and that they hate machines. The reality is that many of them were actual machine builders and designers, although there were a few who did get frustrated with the penury of being displaced by the technology and reacted with violence.

However originally the Luddites had a very specific and I think very reasonable proposal, that was the concept that the technology should the taxed to compensate those who have been displaced by it. I think this is one of the most important and marginalized questions in terms of ethics and technology, that neither the left lower the right have addressed and that need to be placed in the forefront of any debate on issues regarding social and economic equality. Humans cannot compete with with machines and a must the protected from technological domination. Most people in our "technological society " ( see Jacques Ellul, his book by the same title), are convinced that they can live without technology. The fact is that everything we didn't in this society whether it is eating, eat or sleeping is in one way or another, directly or in directly, controlled by machines and increasingly by computer intelligence.

"Seeing things as they are " (Vipsana) through contemplation or meditation is helpful, in being able to detach oneself from the technological matrix, however it is a complete myth that we will ever be completely independent of it. Although we can believe that one machine made object is separate from another, on a higher level of awareness it becomes clear that the entire technological matrix is seamless. One of the primary objectives of my work on the Internet with regards to media awareness and Technethics (the field of ethics in technology) is precisely to open public awareness to these facts and restore public access to public media, to give alternatives in terms of recovery from media addiction and so on. We cannot afford to luxury of print so we use e-mails as a means for transmitting our ideas instead of lecturing on a podium. In this way we hope to be able to forward the awareness and by so doing foster the preservation of free thought and free speech in a man machine world. It does not mean that we condone the dehumanization and the apparent necessity of a military industrial governmental complex to maintain a media monopoly and technological domination.

We do the best we can with the tools that we have been given. Under grace. For the fish who are in water, it is impossible to tell them what water is, the same is true of our technological domination and indoctrination. We cannot see it because we were born into it. Even when we go into the garden to fertilize the plants with petrochemical fertilizers, processed on computer assembly lines and delivered to the stores via the computer and video monitored highways, that we paid for with computerized credit cards or cash dispensed from ATM machines and bring it home with our cars that are built by steel collar workers, of robotic computerized in man machines, we can pretend that we are not living inside of a virtual reality bubble but it may help us to know that in fact we are surrounded, externally and internally by an inpenetrable wall paper of technological reality 24/7. It is time for us to wake up and smell the gasoline.

As a recovering media addict I have endeavored to "share my experience strength and hope "and as a founding member have established media anonymous to facilitate recovery for those who want it. I think that using the technology for this purpose is not an oxymoron. Thank you for sharing. Unconditional love and peace to al

g.k../MFT :-)