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enchainrain:
creopere:
i think that technology and civilization have very often served to deepen the gulf in ability between the impaired and the more typical, able body, and citing sick and impaired bodies as if we were the main beneficiaries of technological progress is intellectually lazy. it’s true that i can imagine how technology could hypothetically have a levelling effect with regards to ability, but I don’t know that it’s ever happened. Specific groups with specific limitations have moved from a disabled class to an abled one, but that is not a larger move toward equality or to the dismantling of that division.
I would also like to point out how many different technologies actually make disabled people, eiþer in a literal way by polluting and maiming (which has not lessened, only gotten less visible to þe kind of person which receives þe comforts of enterprise and capital) or in a more indirect way, by insisting on a kind of person being categorized þat way because of a specific divergence of form and function.
þat is, so many so-called disabled people, especially þe “mentally disabled,” are only considered such because certain technological cages have trapped þem in a society þat maligns þem and arranges itself in ways þey are unfit to compete and struggle inside of. Because þey stumble on þe treadmill of hyperspecialized labor, þey must þerefore be disabled, when in oþer times and in oþer ways of life þey would do perfectly well, or even excel.
As an example, someone wiþ a loose concept of time does terribly in a factory, but when your whole life isn’t arranged like a factory, it is not nearly as much of an issue.
enchainrain:
creopere:
i think that technology and civilization have very often served to deepen the gulf in ability between the impaired and the more typical, able body, and citing sick and impaired bodies as if we were the main beneficiaries of technological progress is intellectually lazy. it’s true that i can imagine how technology could hypothetically have a levelling effect with regards to ability, but I don’t know that it’s ever happened. Specific groups with specific limitations have moved from a disabled class to an abled one, but that is not a larger move toward equality or to the dismantling of that division.
I would also like to point out how many different technologies actually make disabled people, eiþer in a literal way by polluting and maiming (which has not lessened, only gotten less visible to þe kind of person which receives þe comforts of enterprise and capital) or in a more indirect way, by insisting on a kind of person being categorized þat way because of a specific divergence of form and function.
þat is, so many so-called disabled people, especially þe “mentally disabled,” are only considered such because certain technological cages have trapped þem in a society þat maligns þem and arranges itself in ways þey are unfit to compete and struggle inside of. Because þey stumble on þe treadmill of hyperspecialized labor, þey must þerefore be disabled, when in oþer times and in oþer ways of life þey would do perfectly well, or even excel.
As an example, someone wiþ a loose concept of time does terribly in a factory, but when your whole life isn’t arranged like a factory, it is not nearly as much of an issue.
