It's ok that you don't understand. However, if you're asking me for an explanation of why I think the difference between believing in magic and understanding tech matters then my motivation is to do with the social consequences of accepting magic instead of seeking to understand human behaviours.
One of the problems with believing in magic is that fairy tales aren't generally comfortable places for the peasantry to live in, y'know?
A List of Stuff What I choose Not To Believe, by spiralsheep :-)
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
The world is the way it is because [magic] and we ordinary people can't understand or change it.
Only people who already have power can understand power and use power.
Everything is predestined by Godgovernmentthe security servicesbig business facebook.
Relax and accept the mysterious magic!
/end list
Also, I don't know you well enough to know whether you'd want this pointed out to you but, as you've asked me twice now to explain to you, "I'm also not sure what the difference would be to Facebook since whatever the method, they have the information they want" is based on a logical fallacy because you began at the end with a conclusion "they already have the information" rather than at the beginning of the process of the how of information gathering (or before that in asking why the information gathering might happen). The world, as currently perceived by humans, doesn't generally start at the end and work backwards so thinking that way about the world will increase the likelihood of coming to unsupported and even false conclusions.
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Date: 2014-11-30 10:24 am (UTC)One of the problems with believing in magic is that fairy tales aren't generally comfortable places for the peasantry to live in, y'know?
A List of Stuff What I choose Not To Believe, by spiralsheep :-)
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
The world is the way it is because [magic] and we ordinary people can't understand or change it.
Only people who already have power can understand power and use power.
Everything is predestined by
Godgovernmentthe security servicesbig businessfacebook.Relax and accept the mysterious magic!
/end list
Also, I don't know you well enough to know whether you'd want this pointed out to you but, as you've asked me twice now to explain to you, "I'm also not sure what the difference would be to Facebook since whatever the method, they have the information they want" is based on a logical fallacy because you began at the end with a conclusion "they already have the information" rather than at the beginning of the process of the how of information gathering (or before that in asking why the information gathering might happen). The world, as currently perceived by humans, doesn't generally start at the end and work backwards so thinking that way about the world will increase the likelihood of coming to unsupported and even false conclusions.