“The evil of technology was not in technology technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical ingenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, our sense of personal accountability. In the last book he wrote, his Autobiography of Values, published posthumously in 1976, he described a bombing run over the Japanese-occupied city of Rabaul in New Guinea during World War II: When I pressed the red button on my stick, it was hard to believe I had released a high-explosive bomb. But there it was, deadly and irretrievable, apparently floating in the air. I saw it clearly for a moment as I climbed, and within seconds a pinhead puff of smoke appeared behind me in the city of Rabaul, a puff so small and far away that I could not connect it to the button on my stick, or realize the writhing hell it covered on the ground. I had carried out my mission, and felt little responsibility for what I had done. McCullough, David. Brave Companions (p. 132). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. McCullough, David. Brave Companions (p. 132). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. McCullough, David. Brave Companions (p. 132). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. ”
