/lit/ - Literature

>>19844541
By realizing "the natural world" is not a concept opposed to human civilization or even a real thing at this point. There is a philosophical debate proximal to my area of study about understanding the Earth as a terraformed system via large-scale infrastructure we have built. An alternative view to "fuck it all, burn it down" deep ecology is treating "nature" and human systems as one thing that can be managed, mitigated, improved.
He is probably right about adaption to technology (idk, my knowledge of Kaczynski comes from this board and secondary sources). Humans have a limit to what we can adapt to as we are essential visual-linguistic processing machines trying to run logical/abstract reasoning software (and it's impressive that we can do it as well as we do). Also, my intuition is that industrial society will not collapse as catastrophically as Ted or laymen doomscollers would have you believe, but will instead go through cycles or crash then stabilize. That is barring extremely quick increase in intelligence and production which would probably be very bad.

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This feels like a book /lit/ hates. I know all the rationalizations and lazy arguments that will be brought forth in this thread. I don't care to hear them, so spare yourself the time to write them. Just let it be known: the glorious history of mankind comes to an ignoble end this century.

This shit scared me more than any horror fiction book

>>14982757

Are there ANY books, writers, intellectuals, etcetera that have actually succeeded in any way in predicting the future? To me so far it seems the answer is very much "No." It's easy to fall for prophetic works if they were written recently, but all you have to do is go back a few decades and you'll find all kinds of ridiculous statements from supposed """"""EXPERTS"""""""" along the lines of "By the year 2008, robots will have conquered humans!" "Unless we do not act now, Earth will no longer exist by 1996!" And so on

Pic vaguely related. I can't believe in any of this stuff anymore. "Here's what the future will be like." No, dumbass. The only people who get credited as being prophetic make vague statements like "In the future, people will be less connected to each other." Prove me wrong