The Hypocrisy Of Many Anti-Technology Tirades

The fact that technology is inseparable from Western life is often, to some degree, offensive to those who prefer a more conservative lifestyle.  There is no shortage of false or distorted charges against technology as a whole, many of them asserting that technology is an acid to relationships.  To claim that technology is inherently destructive or otherwise negative is inane enough as it is, but many who attack technology do so in a far more ironic manner.  In doing so, they shoot themselves in their own feet.

It is rather common for something like the Internet, and often social media in particular, to be used by the people in question to decry the Internet and technology in general!  Their nostalgia and zeal for a fallacious cause blind them to the fact that they use the very thing they denounce in order to fight it.  It shouldn't take anyone more than several moments to notice this disparity between professed ideas and actions.

This obvious disparity does not prove that an anti-technology bias is irrational, but it does establish that many who oppose technology either do not believe (or understand) their own premises or have no problem with disregarding their own beliefs with the goal of promoting them.  Either way, anyone who uses technology to argue against technology itself is a hypocrite.  Hypocrisy says nothing about the veracity of a worldview; however, prolonged, unrepentant hypocrisy alerts one that certain people have little to no substance to offer.

Technology is not the negative force that many conservatives regard it as, but it is, instead, the apex of scientific convenience.  That something is relatively novel does not make it a threat to human relationships, nor does the fact that it is foreign to a more traditional way of life--not that tradition possesses any ultimate significance to begin with!  Anyone who dislikes technology is free to deprive himself or herself of its numerous benefits, but they have no valid criticism of technology itself.  Anyone who uses technology to condemn technology, though, only discredits themself.