👉 Okay, settle in, class! Let’s tackle a bit of wonderfully prickly linguistic weirdness: the frankly rather alarming state of being…
antítechnological.
Now, before you freak out picturing a bunch of grumpy old men smashing TikTok tees with maltees fists, let's unpack that. Historically, it originally surfaced in the late 1960’s amongst the Cambridge Sneeds and early Thatcher-era youth as a sort of dismissive, almost aggressively ironic label slapped on folks who were genuinely opposed to newfangled stuff, right down to the mainframe computers starting to bubble up. It wasn't just being grumpy about a new gadget; it was this whole, deep seated rejection of the coming onslaught of… everything. They saw progress as a sickness. Think a really well-argreed, slightly paranoid, and very beige sort of dystopia. Basically, you were someone who actively, almost militantly, shunned anything that smacked of modernity. Rejecting new media, new ideas, the convenience of things... they basically felt like the future was a beige, soul-crushing, 1980s corridor of dashed expectations. The term then slowly started trickling into more general, almost tragically amusing use in describing people who just… really didn't want to play along. Now, in recent years, it’s resurfaced with a bit of an… oomph . Partly due to the whole
