/lit/ - Literature

>>11258962
tl;dr: It's not wrong to criticize the pace that technology develops, especially since the best interests are usually in their creators and not the consumers. But to mindlessly agree with the Unabomber is foolish, even if you're not referring to his actual bombings. There is value in the desire to get away from it all, all the technology and nosy neighbors. But to pretend that undoing centuries of human progress would actual increase an overall quality of life is foolish and is usually only taken seriously by teenagers and edgy jerks on the internet. The individual will always have access to new opportunities that society prohibits, but you can't forget that technology does unlock other opportunities that would be originally unacceptable, from prosthetic limbs to being able to communicate with a large audience easily like I'm doing right now. Overall technology will provide more freedoms if we just define it as pure opportunities, but we should be careful not to give up freedoms we need for opportunities we think we want.

It's not too late to change your ways.