The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. — Robert M. Pirsig. American writer and philosopher (1928–2017)
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha--which is to demean oneself.
The real train of knowledge isn't a static entity that can be stopped and subdivided. Its always going somewhere.