Why? Because.

Technicity’s Why is always asked as: “What is it for?”

And this technic Why is reflexively answered with a Because of a specific form: “…in order to…” — in a long and unending chain of in-order-tos.

Technic Why means: “What is its use?”

This deformity of meaning is the valid impulse behind our indignation at calling the person for whom a design is intended the User.


Fundamentalist “religion” is the technic reduction of intrinsically good life-toward-the-Absolute to a system of Why-Because rules one must observe in order to earn magical rewards and in order to avoid magical punishments. It is technicity pristinely alienated from Earth, Man and Heaven, with all technicity’s negative trade-offs and none of its advantages.

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