Mechanistic Solidarity and the Diminution of Conscience

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Gregory Loewen
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Introduction-One of the main modes of other-directedness that has only been indirectly linked with anomie, and that is the technique and technology of the modern machine, both as a metaphor for mechanism in semi-conscious working states of affairs -the public life of our large and general social role as ‘one of the others’ and one of the mass, producer and consumer -but also the machine as a physical enabler, a force in the material world wherein it alleviates suffering with a view to assuaging anomie. The machine houses and promotes a new set of norms. It is never normless, although often mindless. It cannot suffer itself. It does not feel the wind chill, and though it breaks down it does not die. It represents, in its obliviousness to sorrow and to ennui, an ideal form for modern humanity. We would be as it is. Functional, able to work and nothing else, turned on and off in an instant.

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Gregory Loewen. 2016. \u201cMechanistic Solidarity and the Diminution of Conscience\u201d. Global Journal of Human-Social Science - H: Interdisciplinary GJHSS-H Volume 16 (GJHSS Volume 16 Issue H5): .

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Introduction-One of the main modes of other-directedness that has only been indirectly linked with anomie, and that is the technique and technology of the modern machine, both as a metaphor for mechanism in semi-conscious working states of affairs -the public life of our large and general social role as ‘one of the others’ and one of the mass, producer and consumer -but also the machine as a physical enabler, a force in the material world wherein it alleviates suffering with a view to assuaging anomie. The machine houses and promotes a new set of norms. It is never normless, although often mindless. It cannot suffer itself. It does not feel the wind chill, and though it breaks down it does not die. It represents, in its obliviousness to sorrow and to ennui, an ideal form for modern humanity. We would be as it is. Functional, able to work and nothing else, turned on and off in an instant.

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