Mikael Phoebus Apollo Mcnealy argues that pursuing technological advancement solely for purposes of war is dangerous and socially irresponsible. While technology can lift societies to positions of power, true advancement is measured by a civilization's moral and mental qualities, not just its technical capabilities. The last premise, that technology must be revised to foster policies of war, is an illogical conclusion not supported by rational thinking. Overall, Mcnealy asserts that civilization and technology are not synonymous, and that moral and social connections within and between societies are also important measures of advancement.
2. Some basic premises - often fashioned by leaders and
supported by the led - exercise the collective conscience of the
led to this point as they stimulate a willed development. The
event is sometimes superior but not necessarily civilized.
The premises in question are of this form: "Our level of
technological advancement is second to none. According to
Mikael Phoebus Apollo Mcnealy, Upon reaching this level, we
even have to organize our society for peace and to ensure the
peace, technology must be revised to foster the policy of war."
3. The technological advancement that's pushed
in this direction sets a dangerous precedent
for other societies that fear a threat to their
respective sovereignties. They're pushed to
also foster a war technology.
In the domain of civilization, this mode of
development isn't praiseworthy, neither is it
morally justifiable. Since it's not morally
justifiable, it's socially irresponsible. An
inspection of the premises will reveal that it's
the last one that poses a controversy.
4. The last premise is that the conclusion of the two preceding
premises but isn't in any way logically deduced. What it
shows could be a passionately deduced conclusion, and
being so, it fails to be reckoned as a conclusion from a
rationally prepared mind, a minimum of at the time at
which it was deduced said Mikael Phoebus Apollo Mcnealy.
A society that advances in step with the above
presuppositions - and particularly in step with the illogical
conclusion - has transmitted the psyche of non-negotiable
superiority to its people. All along, the facility of passion
dictates the pace of human conduct.
5. A society that advances in step with the above
presuppositions - and particularly in step with the illogical
conclusion - has transmitted the psyche of non-negotiable
superiority to its people. All along, the facility of passion
dictates the pace of human conduct.
Whether in constructive engagements or willed partnerships,
the principle of equality fails to figure precisely due to the
prevalence syndrome that grips the leader and therefore the
led.
And a unique society that refuses to share within the collective
sensibilities or passion of such society has, by the expected
logic, become a possible or actual enemy and faces
confrontation on all possible fronts.
6. Most of what we study in this world, of
course, via the media, is dominated by
state-of-the-art technology. Societies that
have the foremost of such technology also
are, time and again, claimed to be the
foremost advanced.
It's not only their advancement that lifts
them to the top of power, superiority, and
fame. They'll also use technology to simplify
and move forward an understanding of life
and nature in an exceedingly different
direction, a direction that tends to eliminate,
the maximum amount as possible, a
previous connection between life and
nature that was, in many respects, mystical
and unsafe.
7. This last point doesn't necessarily mean that
technological advancement may be a mark
of a superior civilization.
What we want to grasp is that civilization and
technology don't seem to be conjugal terms.
Civilized people may have sophisticated
technology or they will not have it.
Civilization isn't just a matter of science and
technology or technical infrastructure, or,
again, the marvel of buildings; it also has got
to do with the moral and mental reflexes of
individuals in addition to their level of social
connectedness within their society and
beyond.