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>Words like “self-confidence,” “self-reliance,” “initiative,” “enterprise,” “optimism,” etc., play little role in the liberal and leftist vocabulary. The leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society to solve everyone’s problems for them, satisfy everyone’s needs for them, take care of them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.

What did he mean by this?

I agree with most of his points, though it might have been better to further emphasize that primitive life is more meaningful and primitive people were/are far healthier and stronger than modern humans, and elborate more on the alternative instead of endlessly talking about leftists.

Similar reads?

>The French and Russian revolutionaries failed (fortunately!) to create the new kind of society of which they dreamed

what did he mean by this?

>>14124889

We must draw a sharp distinction between the thing and its properties on one side, and the “essence” (Wesen) and its characteristics on the other. Only an essence, or nature, can be immediately experienced. One cannot describe, or “grasp,” an essence by means of the conceptual analysis that is appropriate only when a scientist or technician analyzes a thing in order to reduce it to an “objective” fact that will submit to the grasp of the concept. The souls of all phenomena unite to comprise a world of sensuous images, and it is only as unmediated images that the essences appear to the pathic soul who receives their meaning-content. The world of essences (phenomena) is experienced by the pathic soul, which is the receptor of the fleeting images that constitute actuality [Wirklichkeit der Bilder]. These images wander eternally in the restless cosmic dance that is the Heraclitean flux. The image lives in intimate connection with the poles of space and time.

The world of things, on the other hand, is rationally comprehended as a causally connected system of objects (noumena). In the course of historical time man's ability to perceive the living images and their attendant qualities is progressively impoverished until finally spirit replaces the living world of expressive images with the dead world of mere things, whose only connections are adequately expressed in the causal nexus, or, to use the language of science, the "laws of nature."

In the final act of the historical tragedy, when there is no longer any vital substance upon which the vampire spirit may feed, the parasitic invader from beyond time will be forced to devour itself.

>>13506174
what advancement? why do you think we'll keep advancing? advancing towards what? where? what is "advancement?" embarrassing

>>13479018
>With improved education, we have more minds that can think the solutions to our problems, such as clean energy through fusion.
I almost fell for it until muh fusion meme. Not happening. Pic related. Nice one, anon. 7/10

he should've killed millions

>One of the wilderness oases Kaczynski loved to visit was a “plateau that dated from the Tertiary Age” a two-day hike from his cabin. The spot was sort of a secret retreat for him. As Kaczynski remembers, “It’s kind of rolling country, not flat, and when you get to the edge of it you find these ravines that cut very steeply into cliff-like drop-offs. There was even a waterfall there.” The area around his own cabin was getting too much traffic from hikers and hunters, so in the summer of 1983 he retreated to his secret spot on the plateau.

>As he tells an interviewer later in prison, “When I got there I found they had put a road right through the middle of it” His voice trails off; he pauses, then continues, “You just can’t imagine how upset I was. It was from that point on I decided that, rather than trying to acquire further wilderness skills, I would work on getting back at the system. Revenge. That wasn’t the first time I ever did any monkey wrenching, but at that point, that sort of thing became a priority for me.”

Is this when he put aside Ted and became the Unabomber?

>yfw you realize the One Ring in LotR represents not power, but technology
>everyone who says it's a tool and can be used for certain ends tries to wield it but they cannot and are instead corrupted by it
bravo tolkien

>yfw you realize the One Ring in LotR represents not power, but technology
>everyone who says it's a tool and can be used for certain ends tries to wield it but they cannot and are instead corrupted by it
bravo tolkien

>>13310900
*runs out of oil and other resources necessary for industrial society*
nothin personnel

>>13130158
>technology is going to destroy humans and society
>AND this is a good thing

Better debate idea:
TED vs TED

Teddy

ITT: People who lived their word.

>>12928726
get political *wink* *wink*

>>12888064
>how terrible technology is making human existence. No good books on this yet that I know of

http://editions-hache.com/essais/pdf/kaczynski2.pdf

I finished reading his manifesto last night and can’t stop thinking about it. Anyone else strongly affected by it?

Sadly I feel that the Revolution simply can’t happen. Society is so stultified by media and entertainment, and so poorly educated, that large scale change of any kind—especially anti-technological change—seems impossible.

I’m open to any critiques/arguments in favor of increased machinization as well. As far as I know, Pinker’s book is a sort of foil to Kaczynski’s essay—is that accurate? I haven’t read it.

So I was reading the manifesto the other day and I really liked the part where he said:

>The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.

>>12661761
based

>>12616054
>Author went to Harvard

Was he right? Is technology inevitably going to destroy society? Are we going to experience a massive collapse and the end of technological progress as we know it?