The Mechanization of Man, by Christopher Lippold

By Christopher Lippold, Crisis Magazine, July 5,  2022

Christopher Lippold is a lifelong Catholic with a Masters Degree in Dogmatic Theology from Holy Apostles in Cromwell, CT. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Meteorology and a minor in Philosophy from Northern Illinois University.

What happens when one becomes nothing more than a cog in the machine to those in power, to be used and thrown away as they see fit? Previously, I spoke of the commoditization of man, something that has been, at some level, a temptation of man since the beginning. However, just as the shift in meaning of the human person when that idea is crossed with the increasingly rapid development of technology has increased, so also have new ideas developed in that time.