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Man and technology

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In his short essay "Man and Technology" (1931), Oswald Spengler, continuing his discussion of the cyclical nature of world history and the decline of great civilizations begun in "The Decline of the West," first raised the question of the essence of technology. Examining the various stages of human development, he departs from the widespread instrumental understanding of technology, defining it as any purposeful activity, a "tactic of life" associated with struggle—a Nietzschean will to power. Thus, Western European and North American "Faustian" culture subjugated nature and other countries with the help of machine technology, creating the conditions for inevitable ecological collapse. According to Spengler, the peoples of the West themselves became victims of their own technologies: "The ruler of the world has become the slave of the machine."
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