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This artistic rendering illustrates a critical possible conflict between Humans (considering themselves atop the scala naturae) and Nature (the broader class which includes humans as members). The fact that humans often get this logical relation confused is the source of much confusion. The human making, poein + techne (now to be referred in shorthand as technology), is the output of human activity. It is executed within a Natural construct. But because it originates from its own designs narrowly understood, it can create community (human and/or Natural) disruption.
Community disruption is an important concept. It occurs when one member of a community acts as if s/he lives in a “community of one.” Everyday examples of this within the shared community worldview of a micro community occur when an individual or group of individuals ignores the values of the community and wish (without consultation) to impose their will upon the rest of the community.41
This debate in the nineteenth century context of Britain is complicated by another variable: a static versus a dynamic view of Nature, viewed as a system with various perturbations that affect the output. Often Nature was thought of as some sort of enclosed garden upon which humans (both separated and apart as per Part I) enter and gaze at this exotic other in order to ascertain whether they are satisfied or not.