Does this mentality piss you off?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The anger comes I think at the attempts to fob off creationism as science in secondary schools. It seems just so "luddite."

The Luddites weren't opposed to "progress" itself, just to the destruction and-or degradation of their livelihoods.

"It just seems so reactionary" would be a better, I think.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The anger comes I think at the attempts to fob off creationism as science in secondary schools. It seems just so "luddite."

The Luddites weren't opposed to "progress" itself, just to the destruction and-or degradation of their livelihoods.

"It just seems so reactionary" would be a better, I think.

No it isn't. Resisting economic efficiency for self interested is a cardinal sin, and thus beyond reactionary. It's immoral.

Certainly a great deal less immoral than having small children working (and often dying) in the most dangerous jobs in the mills in order to maximise profits.