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Now this is not to say that technological progress didn't aid in bringing about SJWs, feminism, etc., but that it was more of a powerful catalyst, a tool that has fallen into the wrong hands — not some malevolent force bent on destroying us. The real malevolence is spiritual.
I agree, with some reservations (or qualifications).
Until very recently I held the idea that technology was neutral and did not realize this conflicted with my view on human nature, which I have held for much longer, which is: humans, having been created in the image of God, are fallen creatures due to their original disobedience in the Garden, which makes us here on earth prone to corruption.
So logically you cannot say that any tool we devise is neutral, as our tendency is always to use it for evil - not just technology per se, but any cultural or social tool (language, art, etc). This is why we should be very careful when using these things and all upright societies have had restrictions on the use of our various tools, to safeguard against our tendency towards corruption (obviously, even our political and even religious institutions suffer from the same tendency - but that is not to say that because of this we should dispense with them - some puritans argued this or came very close).
Now, with such a powerful tool as modern technology (since the Industrial Revolution) and the exponential growth (furthermore unchecked), offers an incredibly powerful outlet for evil as well. I don't think technology has a will of its own trying to destroy us (not yet at least, maybe when we create the first truly sentient machine), but our natural tendencies point it towards this direction. It then becomes a snowball - the more technologically advanced, the more our tendency for corruption has a powerful outlet, the more this becomes so, the less restrictions are put on it, and less restrictions lead to even more advanced tech, and so forth.
So having said this, yes, the problem is primarily spiritual, but understood in this way. I don't see a way out of our predicament without rolling back (or severely restricting the access to) several advanced technologies through which hedonist and relativist ideas spread as well as ending the scientific/technological dictatorship (accountable to no one but itself and its drive for unbridled progress).