I read it and agreed with over half of his conclusions about technological society but he offers no real solution.
Modern society sucks was all i got out of it no solution... He also never even touches the important aspects of why technological society has gone so wrong like central banking these evils pre-date the industrial system.
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The solution is clear, but unthinkable for most of us.
He talks about orchestrating a breakdown of it. But I don't know how thats even possible only thing I can even think of is just nuking every major city in every country.
And even then why wouldn't an industrial society pop back up in 400 years? Think of all the digital and paper archives we have for the modern world in various underground vaults inside hard drives.
There is no point in reflecting on his theses.
The Luddites never won. They always lose. Technical civilization has one vector: forward.
Very true user change or die...
Read his later books like "The Amti-tech Revolution"
Hes written at length(like 13 books) and is practically a NYT best seller at this point.
>but he offers no real solution.
The only solution is the total destruction of technology.
Impossible.
>Impossible
Have you ever heard of the Carrington Event? Look it up. It isn't impossible and there's a chance we don't have to do a damn thing to make it happen.
He mentions that if there is an immaterial soul, it is inferior to the brain in terms of controlling human behaviour. The whole truth is that MODERN man's soul is inferior and this is why society is in the state it is in. Humanity is slowly devolving back in to animals whose behaviour is completely dictated by their environment. Devolving in to a state where they are no more than a number of chemical reactions, constantly craving substances and stimuli( antidepressants drugs porn) to ease the pain of losing their humanity that once separated them from animals
Idealism over results, which is retarded
May as well shoot yourself in the head and end it there because it's the same
so autistic that he moved to a one room cabin way out in the woods with no running water or electricity
incel
joined a LARP
the line between his LARP and reality started to blurr
he started mailing bombs to people
He's correct that the industrial revolution tuned us into slaves. It has gotten even worse in the past fifty years and when the West started to give all the work to the Red Chinese for pennies on the dollar (and they expect the rest of the world to compete with slaves). Technology and automation was supposed to liberate us from work, not enslave us further. I want UBI and Keynes' 15 hour work week already. The West was supposed to 'evolve past' work, instead we are in the drudgery of wage slavery, where our money buys nothing of value because of inflation and collapsing purchasing power.
That said, I couldn't live in the fucking woods.
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>That said, I couldn't live in the fucking woods.
embarrassing
>he offers no real solution
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>he offers no real solution
There's none from a civilian perspective unless people are willing to let their personal lives be destroyed en masse and in unison, like a bank run on corrupt governance. If everyone just stopped paying taxes and participating until the traitors, pedophiles, and communists that have subverted our country and stolen the election are publically tried and executed for treason
yeah because ppl werent slaves before the industrial revolution? cmon man think
Until it crashes
>He's correct that the industrial revolution tuned us into slaves.
What turned us in to slaves is the complete disregard for what separates us from animals
The only real, viable solution is breaking off from society and living off the grid with other normal people who want to build a family and a life without being a slave, though they will still continue destroying everything beautiful left on the planet, that is the end goal of capitalism, and the end goal of socialism is likely always totalitarianism. Money is a tool for manipulation where the subject being manipulated doesn't even realize that it has happened, you can convince a young girl to allow themselves to be choked and spit on in front of the entire world and think it's what they wanted. Society is fucked no matter what because the people are just smart enough to be effective parasites attempting to fill an endless void rather than focus on living.
Bro, people worked 15 hour weeks before the industrial revolution.
Then it went up to 80-100 hours a week before it went down to 40 hours roughly eighty years ago.
At this point, we should barely need to work, with the level of technology we have now, let alone future advancements.
It really should have went the way Keynes predicted, but something went badly wrong after the sixties.
>he offers no real solution.
His solution was to send bombs in the mail dude.
Define technology