The rest of the quote:
We are ruled by rapacious, dogmatic, heavily-armed fossil-moguls who rob us and force us to live like corpses
And the rest of the essay is here. There’s a reason I still read 30 year old fiction by that author. Good to see he’s not taking life lying down.The gist of the essay is that the technology we live in will some day be as useless and archaic to us as Victorian culture and technology is now, and we might as well embrace that because the world our parents and teachers have prepared us for isn’t the world we’re going to be making.
update: if you’re interested in reading an essay referenced in the essay above, THE NATURE OF GOTHIC by John Ruskin, here is a link for it.