One thing to notice in this piece: A guy who just insisted on drugging-up a mother and cutting her stomach open to take the baby out, jokes that she has a probl

One thing to notice in this piece: A guy who just insisted on drugging-up a mother and cutting her stomach open to take the baby out, jokes that she has a problem with technology. I can hardly think of a more complete assertion of the dominion of techne over a natural process, than a caesarean. But that technology is old enough to be invisible and beyond question, while the newer Blackberry apparently merits all sorts of skepticism. Just an interesting dichotomy. Also beyond the scope of questioning are her diet and lifestyle, which are affected by technology. If her diet is the typical technology-enhanced, sugar-rich diet and her lifestyle is the typical technology-enhanced lifestyle where you're not doing a whole lot of plowing in the fields, much less stalking prey for 36 hours straight on an empty stomach... well then, those are going to be factors that contribute to your "needing" a caesarean in the first place. Anybody who is "anti-tech" is probably fooling themselves a little bit. Even the most valiant resisters are declaring "OK no tech from this point onward," where that point might be in the 1700s or whenever they choose. If you were completely anti-tech, you wouldn't even be able to pick up a rock and use it as a hammer. Regardless, while being anti-tech is infinitely debatable, we should probably all be staunchly anti-scummy-predatory-BS-tech, just like you should be anti- their less-advanced scummy-predatory-BS predecessors.