Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I'm a Dominican friar of the

province of St Joseph. I teach at the Dominican House of Studies and I work as an

assistant director for the Tomistic Institute and this is Pineser Aquinas. In this episode I would like to address the

tension between on the one hand hating on the internet and on the other hand using the internet.

Because here we are you may have noticed that whether it's in content for Pints or for God's planning or the

Tomistic Institute or otherwise, I will often express reserve about Internet technology or about the way in which the

internet seems pitted against us or weaponized against us. But on the other hand I

keep producing these videos or these podcast for internet

outlets. So what gives? Is that an inherent contradiction or if it is

attention, how are we going to see our way through it? Here we go. Let's

let's figure it out. Okay, quick summary of why I am

made nervous by the internet. This is no surprise. Everyone has commented upon this and they have

commented upon this with you know more coherence and more insight than I will

hear at present. But the basic idea is you know we've got the internet now for 25-ish years and I don't know that we as a

human community have done the best job of incorporating it into a human life. So people have commented upon the fact that we're

transitioning from an electric age to a digital age and that with each kind of

quantum leap as it were in the technology it places a certain strain on us as a human

community because the threat is that rather than subordinating the technology to our ends the technology subordinates us to its ends

or that we in turn become slaves of the very technology

we were meant to be masters of.

And I'm sure there are tons of futuristic shows and movies along these

very lines which probably end in like I don't know things becoming sentient and

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