/lit/ - Literature

The short story of the day is "Sales Pitch" by Philip K. Dick.

Read it here: https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780806518565

Looks like Uncle Ted got another biopic. What does /lit/ think about it, assuming someone has watched it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKxmdETbxT8

>>17749770
The only based anon in this thread

>>17732613
First, you must bomb academia.

I can only think of things that are tangentially related, but here is a list:

>The Technological Society by Ellul
It's about "technique" which is not the same thing as reason, but I think you'll find similar enough themes in it

>ISAIF by Teddy K
The Lenin to Ellul's Marx

>Voltaire's Bastards by John Raulston Saul
Focuses on the "over reliance" part

Lastly, I'm reading an article right now that is slightly related:
>http://bostonreview.net/philosophy-religion/marta-figlerowicz-myths-enlightenment

>10 minutes in
He's just shitting in sjws, was this shit as prélevant back than ?

https://youtu.be/n5ITyifcYy8

>>15021685
Hold on, I'm improving it again. I'm going to expand more. This helps me alot actually because I enjoy writing; tell me what the plot of the book is and I'll create some more pages for you. I actually enjoy this because I am getting creative vibes right now and I'm feeling inspired towards writing. Tell me the basic plot of the book or what happens right after the girl gets out of this class and I'll give some suggestions for you.

Right now I'm writing more on what you've given me so far and I'll put in some new characters that I think you'll enjoy reading about.

>>14628090
based and unequivocally redpilled

>>14440885
based, Ellul and Kaczynski will be primes in the 2020s

>>14431169
based and tedpilled

>>14416716
>sources
the facts are pretty evident and common sense, no need to run corelation tests or whatever it's only interpretation that's lacking and Ted filled that gap briliantily elucidating the inner mechanics of our technoindustrial system. But if you still insist on "citations" and "sources" you can read Rousseau, Ellul or Mumford to see where Kaczynski picked up some of his radical ideas

>>14416204
>Marx does not outline what this post-capitalist society should look like and operate
Marx did outline briefly the sketch of how a post-capitalist society must function, he had a favorable view of Paris Commune which of course was far from what Kaczynski proposes. Marx also leaves us with tools of historical materialism which allow us to understand how the next dialectical step should look like.
medieval European cities: individual ownership of means of production and therefore individual gains from production + individual production process (every craftsman works only for his own subsistence)
capitalism: individual ownership of means of production (profit) + social production process (massive factories, division of labor) this is the capitalist contradiction
socialism: social ownership of the means of production + social production process
it is clear that the view of the next dialectical step which is the only possible resolution of the capitalist contradiction differs vastly from the ideal of Kaczynskian society since factories, workshops etc. remain in existence they merely change their owners
>es, and once the system that perpetuates technology is destroyed, the constituents of the post-capitalism society are free to do away with technology
yes but then why call it Marxism? in this part of your postulate there is nothing discernably Marxist, also the phrase "post-capitalist" is redundant since Kaczynskian society is post-technological and thus it disposes of both capitalism and socialism
>>14416229
care to explain what work will remain to be done for human laborers once machines will be more competitive than us in every domain of life?

>>14408850
Basically this, smartphones have completely obliterated the average persons ability to concentrate. The only way to counteract this is to force yourself to read, in the beginning you will likely find yourself taking breaks every 10 minutes, but it does get better you just have to stick to it.

Has anyone been able to refute him? All I see is people condemning his actions and attacking his personality, but not his ideas.

>The text of the letter sent by the Unabomber to one of his victims, Dr. David Gelernter of Yale University. Gelernter suffered extensive wounds to his abdomen, chest, face and hands in the June 1993 bombing.
Dr. Gelernter:

>People with advanced degrees aren't as smart as they think they are. If you'd had any brains you would have realized that there are a lot of people out there who resent bitterly the way techno-nerds like you are changing the world and you wouldn't have been dumb enough to open an unexpected package from an unknown source.

The absolute chad

Funny how everyone on /k/ and /out/ is more successful and interesting than you retards. Yesterday two people on this board told me that smoking isn't addictive or unhealthy. Ted is based. You are all the exact retard he describes.

>>12397146
If that were true it would only add to my praise.

>>12360560
Marx himself predicted capitalism would have to ravage the entire planet to elevate society to the point for a true communist workers revolution. Hitler was the first environmentalist.

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