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Surviving Technopolis: Essays on Finding Balance Our New Man-Made Environments
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Surviving Technopolis: Essays on Finding Balance Our New Man-Made Environments
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Surviving Technopolis: Essays on Finding Balance Our New Man-Made Environments
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Technopolis has no end in view other than bigger, faster, newer, and more. While giving us many material benefitsat least in the short runin its wake are spiritual loss, alienation, and devastation. These essays not only evaluate Technopolis, but also seek wisdom to cope with our new human-made environments. Positively stated, they offer suggestions on how to bring us back into balance. Some of our best wisdom in analyzing Technopolis can be found in the voices of the Christian humanists. Unlike Enlightenment humanism, which tends to be human-centered, Christian humanism is concerned with the role of humankind within God's created order. G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis represent this tradition. They, and others like them, understood that technological progress with no clear telos obscures what Eliot called "the permanent things." Surviving Technopolis means restoring the things closest to usthose old identity-forming institutions of home, church, and community.