> like any means of production I don’t think this is necessarily the case. It’s not the means of production in and of themselves that are the issue. It’s the

> like any means of production I don’t think this is necessarily the case. It’s not the means of production in and of themselves that are the issue. It’s the historio-socio-cultural-political framework, or zeitgeist, within which we find ourselves, and the decision we make, continue to make, and tolerate. A lack of leadership in any real sense of the word. There is, as you say, a mutual recursion, but the tools are only doing what we’re making them do, and in that sense they are amplifying our poor choices. Blaming the tools seeks to externalise responsibility.