After viewing the documentary of the film Koyanisquatsi I understood the message that the director was trying to convey. Before the documentary I fell into the group of people who the directer laid out as thinking that the movie was crap. Afterwards though I changed my perspective a little about the movie. The realization that mass technology is just as big as a part of our environment as everything else.
Our culture, religion, and other aspects of our lives exist within the technology just as much as ourselves. Mass technology is intertwinned in our lives as a matrix and is not something we can choose to use. Therefore, it is something that we are forced to use whether we want to or not and is necessary for our survival. Technology is such a large factor in todays society that it has completely changed our thinking and just as mentioned in class our "common sense" today is much more advanced than that of those 100 yrs. ago, just as ours will be less advanced from those 100yrs from now.
Mass technology has developed a life of liezure that is very much desired by those who do not share the same technologies that we do. In Borgmann's book, he tells of how people on the frontier desired to read; much in the same way that people of todays society want to use the internet. He describes a specific example where two men traveled 150mi to spend half of all the money that they had to be able to buy some books to occupy thier time.