The Cowardly Rule of Nano Technology

The cowardly rule of nano technology
Is my acerbic phrase for our failure to grasp
That what we need most is a remade society
You make your gadgets while seeing eyes gasp

I cannot read of Peirce and Chauncey Wright without getting a prevision of the collapse of our society owing to the fissure between geeks of the 19th Century and hidebound academia of Eliot and others but that is just a sort of code for the fact that we have lavished our brains of late on nano things and utterly ignored the external world

Tell me that architects and planners have taken care of business and I will laugh in your face for all they have done is cavil to the prevailing winds of conformity

To a model that is bankrupt based on the continued dominance of oil and cars

Tell me that I am just echoing the wisdom of a Ken Wilber about integral and I will tell you that we do not need courses and coaching in fifty steps to some sort of spirit state

We need actual models for life that is no longer prey to superstition

We need people who have breathed the same air Thorstein Veblen breathed when he diagnosed our culture to a T and then we need to set our disciplines aside and talk about a world that cannot be because to be it must be built and no one even believes that yet save maybe a few eco block makers who have had to go to China to find buyers

Design your dumb gadgets until the last dollar has been squeezed from their ubiquity

Then look around you and reflect upon the landscape you see

The Cowardly Rule of Nano Technology. The current recession and the President's hapless "invent something" is turning into a time when the light of truth needs to shine on the dismal lack of design of a truly technologically-based exterior world