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Reductionism is an enemy to responsive living.
For example, technology: in the technological enframing,[1] wherein all beings appear susceptible to technological handling (as standing-reserve), we lose or miss something about the world, about being and beings, and about ourselves.
Technological enframing and its cousins have manifested themselves in many ways: managerialism (all things can be managed), capitalism (all things can be exchanged), modern capitalism (all things can be replaced), legalism (all things are susceptible to laws), and so on — i.e., all in the form of ‘all things are susceptible to…’.
We’re experiencing catastrophes—climatic, pathogenic, geopolitical, and more—brought on by insufficiently responsive (reductive) ways of living.
[1] Martin Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology” in The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1977), p. 19.