The article ”Heidegger and Borgmann on how to Affirm Technology” on page 317 has an excerpt from the New York Times. It states “we are becoming fluid and multi-sided. Without quite realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our times”.
I feel that this coincides with a very important part of Heidegger and Borgmann’s hypothesis. The changing nature of technology and its place in our lives is changing us. Our culture itself has been changed so that the ability to be flexible and multi-talented, capable of reinventing oneself and adapting has become desired. I do not think that this is necessarily a bad thing, however. While I am speaking from inside that culture, the idea of confining oneself to a single, unchanging ideology seems to be at odds with human nature. It is not the purpose of the human to make the personality, but the other way around. While there perhaps exists problems in the idea of fluidity; such as a loss of actual personality and a constant state of flux, it makes sense that one should change based on their surroundings. Perhaps it is the result of our technological world that I cannot think of a different state of affairs.
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