Technology a "guy thing", Aristotle's influence

\I was specifically trying to avoid this aspect of technology, or was hoping to at least ease into it to a point where most men wouldn't notice what was happening because I didn't want any particularly insecure males to be put off by this blog. However, my Aunt emailed me regarding my last post at noted that obsession with technology is a "guy thing." I couldn't agree more. Not only is technology a male project but all natural science as a whole. It started back in the days of Aristotle and his project to boil down nature to bits and pieces of matter and substance quantitatively. Reduce, analyze, repeat...Reduce analyze repeat. His methods were systematic and hypnotic to a point where he mezmerized many followers, affluent Greek men, to further his experiment. It caught on like wild fire and it is the same sort of scientific system that drives science and technology today. However, in his drive to analyze the world into numbers of stuff and elements, Aristotle, and his followers right up to the present day have lost sight of the big picture, or the natural world and humanity that all the stuff adds up to.

Science and technology takes the context out of the world and neglects to recognize the quality of nature as a whole. Often when you look at something to closely and only see a smallpart of the whole, the thing itself is unrecognizable, has no meaning and makes no sense. Take for example Beautiful works of art. Particulary good examples are in the pointillist art tradition which are the same concept todays printing presses run on.
The first picture, really a snippet from the second, is the sort of perspective that natural science (and Aristotle, the father of science) capture. To me, well the first picture is interesting but it means nothing nor makes any reference. By such a reduction, the picture of the geisha loses its qualitative meaning. From the first picture, sure one can deduce how many dots there are and what color they may be, but from day to day we don't live in a world of numbers and dots. I suggest that rather than living in a world where everything is reduced and misunderstood, one should instead consider the big picture. Humanity, earth, nature, just can't usefully be reduced.

I promised this article to be about how science and technology was a guy thing and didn't mean to go off on a long drawn out rant about Aristotle, but he seemed to be the first guy who really started the current progression. Since Aristotle, who believed womens only value was as slaves, science was construed predominantly by men to reduce, analyze, control and manipulate the environment. In contrast, woman historically were subjugated into supporting roles as nurturers, focused on relationships; and tended to consider not just parts, but how parts interact with each other, especially socially. Although we may no longer be pressured by power and wealth into reductivist roles such as the male Aristotelian followers, nor enslaved into nurturing, stewardship type roles such as during ancient greek times, we currently seem to still adopt these same gender roles -by choice?