/lit/ - Literature

>>14860380

Kaczynski (and Jacques Camatte who is very similar but more eloquent) based their works on that of Jacques Ellul, who I am very surprised was not mentioned already.

Ellul published around the same time as Sartre and sadly the French schools were all caught up in their hebephilia to give him proper attention. Nevertheless, do check out his "The Technological Society" for a better understanding of how both Ellul and Kaczynski considers the actions of "Technique" - with a capital T to indicate it is the set of all technologies and their relation to men, not juts any particular one.

In modern (and ironically) technical terms, Ellul's description of Technique/Technology matches almost perfectly our understanding of emergent phenomena, that is, a property of a complex system that only exists at the level of the collective and cannot be explained out as a sum of parts of the same system (consciousness is the prime example people always use, but a rather simpler to visualize emergent effect is animal herd behavior such as fishes, birds and even people).

So when they refer to "system", "Technique", etc. they mean something in society that feeds back information into individuals in a self-consistent circuitry, i.e even though people make up the system as if they were cells, the system itself as emergence also modifies its constituent cells (the people) and this modification feeds back into the system modifying it and so forth.

So in your example the system is effectively having a "need" to change its makeup based on information exchange within itself. Globalism and immigration all play into this. Note this is not the same as saying "society" or "system" are a collective consciousness that can actually think for itself and make choices. This is merely a statement of how it has trends that must be followed to ensure the inertia/survival of the emergent phenomenon, even if this happens in detriment to some, many or even almost all of the individuals composing the system to begin with. "What you can do for your country" and such things.

Anyways, Ellul is very elaborate about explaining it all and you should really check him out.

>>10768169

>It must about cold, hard commodification of the Human Body and how young girls are pushed into this by consumerist culture

Why not read Das Kapital straight away? Society of the Spectacle? The Technological Society? The way you put it, it can and does refer to just about any modern wage based labor at all.

If you think sitting all day in front of a computer writing code is better than sucking random dick for a living, you should start taking a second glance at dicks

>successful
>being this utilitarian