"The myth of progress, then, has been enormously powerful in our culture. In fact, it still is, not least as an implicit belief to which one can appeal to justify any and every “development” in a supposed liberalizing, humanizing, freedom-bringing direction."
The internet and social media only serve to expose our own inherent and prevalent sinful nature through an ever explosive expression of racist and fascist thoughts (manifested in the new phenomenon of 'fake news'), extremist ideologies and uninhibited debauchery in the name of progress. All these make us not more human, but less. We're dehumanized by it. We're not liberated, rather we are captured, imprisoned and divided into warring factions by it.
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