a series of symptoms by which we might diagnose someone with a Borg complex:

1. Makes grandiose, but unsupported claims for technology


2. Uses the term Luddite a-historically and as a casual slur


3. Pays lip service to, but ultimately dismisses genuine concerns


4. Equates resistance or caution to reactionary nostalgia


5. Starkly and matter-of-factly frames the case

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But the good of a moral act inheres in the act itself. That is why an act can itself ennoble or corrupt the person who performs it. The victory of instrumental reason in our time has brought about the virtual disappearance of this insight and thus perforce the delegitimation of the very idea of nobility.