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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459807" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Technology - a thumbnail tribute to Martin Heidegger</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tekne’, to the Greeks <br>was the art of bringing-forth <br>from the true (and, it’s hoped, the good) <br>into the beautiful: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">poetry; sculpture; machinery of wood and metal <br>such as that which raised the Parthenon; <br>raised Apollo, Venus, out of stone; <br>raised myth out of poetry. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I, we, too have technology <br>forever at our finger-tips.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did it happen through chance, <br>through procrastination, <br>or through attention given <br>to a task and needs, <br>this ‘beautiful’ solution <br>that mathematicians talk about? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it happened on one godgiven day, <br>scrubbing those shining new potatoes: <br>the right-hand thumbnail now grown long <br>suddenly a more efficient tool <br>for removing ‘eyes’ and hollowed dirt.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so now, this intimate and valued tool <br>carefully shaped between a v and u; <br>and from the fingertip to heart <br>arises wonder, awe: the gentle curve <br>of nail gives added strength.. how magnificent <br>the humblest, least worshipped fingerends <br>of these so precious hands… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do I mimic man called ‘primitive’ <br>as I depend on nature’s tools <br>to alert the inventive mind <br>by the attention which, taken so for granted <br>links us to the gods themselves…? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tools first, then machines, then ‘technology’ <br>have no limits under divine law: <br>call them, the exteriorisation <br>of our brain, our mind: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">thumbnail, bridge, interstellar rocket <br>are thus one in wonder; every action <br>now to mind and heart, a sacrament; <br>the bringing-forth, the showing-forth <br>of Man – the tekne of the gods; <br>the gods who live, who wake from sleep, <br>only when Man rounds the circle with his praise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Questioning is the piety of thought.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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