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>>20055893

>There is an attractive notion which would apparently resolve all technical problems: that it is not the technique that is wrong, but they use men make of it. Consequently, if the use is changed, there will no longer be any objection to the technique…
>Here is one of the elements of weakness of this point of view. It does not perceive technique’s rigorous autonomy with respect to morals; it does not see that the infusion of some more or less vague sentiment of human welfare cannot alter it. Not even the moral conversion of the technicians could make a difference. At best, they would cease to be good technicians.
>This attitude supposes further that technique evolves with some end in view and that this end is human good. Technique is totally irrelevant to this notion and pursues no end, professed or unprofessed. It evolves in a purely causal way: the combination of preceding elements furnishes the new technical elements. There is no purpose or plan that is being progressively realized. There is not even a tendency toward human ends. We are dealing with a phenomenon blind to the future, in a domain of integral causality. Hence, to pose arbitrarily some goal or other, to propose a direction for technique, is to deny technique and divest of its character and its strength.”

Has this ever been refuted?

>>15299544
Fuck spaceships, and fuck technology

Is this what it feels like to not be a fucking pussy in this
mass producing/consuming-oriented, mass left-wing/globalism propaganda, collective-mindset society killing individualism, privacy and independence.
A Mathematics prodigy, left academicucks, refuses to comfort to society's brainwash.
The west, globalism, the left and feminism are taming us day by day...

>>14854720

I have read his manifesto and multiple letters he wrote, and he talks as if the "system" works independently from human (Political ideologies, religions etc).

One weird comment he makes in
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-the-system-s-neatest-trick
is that the system didnt need women and black rights etc but then all of a sudden the system needed them? What does that even mean? It feels like he just replaces the word system with Jews. But there is no evidence of him being anti-semitic and he is both anti-fascist and anti-communist.

What the hell he is talking about?

>>14541204

How about 167 IQ authors?

Why didn't he just do a Ted talk or something?

He was right about everything but the revolution.

It will never happen, the only hope for humanity returning to primitive life is an apocalypse level event like meteors bombarding the Earth. Even if you convinced everyone in America to change, the rest of the world would just conquer them and bring back technology. You'd have to get the whole world to simultaneously agree and that will never happen. What you can do is enjoy nature while it's still here and keep the knowledge alive for future generations. Go out alone into the wilderness as much as you can, as often as you can. Learn how to survive in it and pass the knowledge on. Maybe one day people will return to the wilderness, but it won't be because they chose to go.

hine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.

>>13755192
>167 IQ
Is he a fraud?

Why is this brainlet so popular on /lit/?

>transgender weirdo
>believes in evolution and not involution
>thinks we came from hunter-gatherer apeoids lmao
>wants to make the whole world a barbarian cesspool of people living in mudhuts (he should've just moved to Africa, it's his ideal society)
>is an atheist
>is a liberal loser trying to subvert conservatives by telling them a return to chaotic barbarism is somehow compatible with rightwing thought
>literally got MKultra'd and became a mass murderer, therefore weak minded
>got BTFO'd by his own brother because all his writing is invariably in the same dry shitty academic tone

press S to spit on this loser, glad he is rotting in prison

Was he right? If you disagree you should probably kill yourself.

If he were working on his manifesto today, what would he be writing about smartphones and social media?

Are Ted Kaczynski's works worth reading? I've been seeing the name Kaczynski pop up more recently.

76 years old. Still in jail.

Kaczynski is the only relevant thinker of the last 50 years. Anyone dodging the technological question is a coward. What good does theory bring if it ignores the basic values and fundaments of our society?How is knowing how power operates or whether or not equality is something to strive for important when the basis for life - AIR, WATER, WEATHER etc.. and 'social' aspects such as human decency - is at stake? The future is bleak. It's either a full blown environmental cataclysm, nuclear warfare, humans gets replaced by machines, humans get re-engineered to fit in the ever complexifying, ever dehumanizing system... You get the gist.

Or it's all of this. Or it's something completely unpredictable, which is how technology works. We make discoveries, and we spend the next hundreds of years trying to fix the problems caused by whichever new technology appeared.

Technology causes a water drought. So we create more technology to solve it (In reality, no one can plan a discovery. If we're lucky we discover something to buy us a few more years) But then the newer technology causes more problems that requires more technology to solve.

It's a never ending race.
Kaczynski's works don't stop with ISaiF, his other books are incredibly insightful too.

>>12609853
young ted was handsome no doubt. but he ain't pretty no moah

Moldbug will age both more gracefully and more ridiculously, which is a credit to him

>"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race."

is teddy k kino?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm