I don't believe that outright tech determinism has much merit. I do believe that technology advances far too quickly to the point that advances are essentially irreversible even when they need to be made. We simply don't have enough time to judge the pros and cons of any particular technology in order to rid ourselves of it if we later find that the cons outweigh the pros. Sites like OnlyFans and Tinder are examples of harmful things that grew far too quickly.

I'm marginally closer to a uses determinist position, although I don't find that particularly compelling either. For example, the Amish seem to be insulated from many contemporary problems not because technology simply exists, but because they simply avoid using it. The problem for urbanites is that we're too integrated into technology to simply quit. What happens when everyone is online banking and more and more physical branches disappear? You're just stuck with ATMs and the internet (both technologies) and have no way to avoid using them, which is where we become part of the problem.

I also believe that use of technology has a strongly degenerative effect on Man's psychology. Problems like delocalization and information overload are mounting up quickly, much like how Dutton and his followers believe that mutations are mounting up quickly in the human genepool. These problems in turn facilitate mental problems. Being bombarded with endless messages—about Covid, Monkeypox, and wars that doesn't concern the vast majority of us—obviously has all sorts of effects on us, especially relating to things such as stress, depression and anxiety, many of which we probably have absolutely zero idea about. In the past, we would have heard little or nothing of any of these things. Furthermore, Covid would have had a very hard time surviving in a detechnologized, unshrunken world, so we wouldn't even need to hear of it in most places. We were simply psychologically healthier, more stress-free, before the shrunken world came to be.

I imagine that people living in parallel detechnologized communities—as I imagine the 'Far-Right' will eventually feel is necessary to do—will largely be insulated from the effects of technology. As long as they don't give up advances in weapons, I don't think that it really matters if the wider society remain technologized: whether the pozzed mixed masses still have smartphones, Tinder, OnlyFans, etc. or not wouldn't have much bearing on their ability to 'shut it down'.