Transcendigital Imagination: Developing Organs of Subtle Perception

>technology leaches the soul of an environment

If you read Plutarch (iirc, not a classicist) you get to read probably the first example of this kind of mororse and reactionary bitching - he too was afraid that the times (they are a' changin') were leaching the soul from the natural rural order. It was probably not a new thought then.

The problem with reading all the hottest and most fashionable thinkers is you don't notice when you're just repeating an argument that has been done ad-nauseum, a sort of philosophical smudge through the years that starts off sharp, has some interesting turns, but ends up just grey and greasy.

Why not take the opposite route? Why not explore the new, subtle, perceptual possibilities of 'cheap' recording technology - instead of doing this tired old harking back to the pure innnocence of an imagined prior experience? I think it would be a more interesting line of thought. I think it's more relevant to our time - we are, after all, encountering the biggest sense organ ever devised, the internet. Seems a bit more interesting than some seriously hackneyed oppositions between raw natural experience and technologically mediated illusion.