In the industrial revolution, machines became a threat to the value of people’s labor.  Many hands were replaced by a few hands.  And in the short run, weavers and cotton pickers lost value in the production process.  In the long term, the repetitive tasks that scar the human body and deaden the soul were rightly given over to unfeeling and tireless machines.  This did not happen quickly but still, Luddites organized to try to stop this progress and the word sabotage comes from using wooden shoes (sabo) to jam the machinery.

For our next civilization to evolve, or even form, will require empowering the people as sovereign nodes fully sharing their unique expression of life within a win-win ecosystem.  That is a tall order, especially in the face of the emerging technocracy.