/lit/ - Literature

>>21621037
I'm not going to say it is bullshit but it is irrelevant to me. Really the entirety of the 'industrial society causes psychological distress' argument is unimportant to me. Any human/group interaction causes distress. The question is if what we get out of it is worth it or not.
The really important argument he puts forward, to me, is that human beings do not and cannot exercise control over their society and its future. Only Darwinian historical forces acting in modulation with population, resources and technique are really at play here and the humans trapped within can only make (maybe) trivial nudges this way or that. Further, the developments I foresee as being necessary for this society to continue 'upwards and forwards' will be quite grim indeed for the merely human.

>>14110905
Technique has penetrated the deepest recesses of the human being. The machine tends not only to create a new human environment, but also to modify man's very essence. The milieu in which he lives is no longer his. He must adapt himself, as though the world were new, to a universe for which he was not created. He was made to go six kilometers an hour, and he goes a thousand. He was made to eat when he was hungry and to sleep when he was sleepy; instead, he obeys a clock. He was made to have contact with living things, and he lives in a world of stone. He was created with a certain essential unity, and he is fragmented by all the forces of the modern world.

>>13743344
>>13745159
I blame those but primarily the Industrial Revolution

>>13518724
neat.

>>13476848
Wow. If I could attract a woman like that... I'd never complain about anything in life again (provided she doesn't cuck me). Alas, I am a late-20s lanklet KHHV. Such is life.

>>13435325
Or female motorists?

>>13385918
ted approves

>>12948002
You're just getting started anon.

>Industrial Society and Its Future (by Uncle Ted)
https://archive.org/details/IndustrialSocietyAndItsFuture-TheUnabombersManifesto

>Technological Slavery (by Uncle Ted)
https://archive.org/details/tk-Technological-Slavery

>Anti Tech Revolution Why And How (by Uncle Ted)
https://archive.org/details/KaczynskiAntiTechRevolutionWhyAndHow_201803

>Industrial Society and Its Future audio version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl9DgAM2zSk

>The Limits of Growth (by The Club of Rome)
http://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Limits-to-Growth-digital-scan-version.pdf

I also have Uncle Teds book list from his cabin if you're interested.

>>12604738
i think in 10 years as global environmental chaos unravels a true anti tech movement can arise. dont forget that mass automation will produce mass unemployment. people already begin to hate new technologies and tech firms like amazon, facebook, apple and google

>The slashing was one of nearly two dozen attacks on driverless vehicles over the past two years in Chandler, a city near Phoenix where Waymo started testing its vans in 2017. In ways large and small, the city has had an early look at public misgivings over the rise of artificial intelligence, with city officials hearing complaints about everything from safety to possible job losses.

>Some people have pelted Waymo vans with rocks, according to police reports. Others have repeatedly tried to run the vehicles off the road. One woman screamed at one of the vans, telling it to get out of her suburban neighborhood. A man pulled up alongside a Waymo vehicle and threatened the employee riding inside with a piece of PVC pipe.

>In one of the more harrowing episodes, a man waved a .22-caliber revolver at a Waymo vehicle and the emergency backup driver at the wheel. He told the police that he “despises” driverless cars, referring to the killing of a female pedestrian in March in nearby Tempe by a self-driving Uber car.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/us/waymo-self-driving-cars-arizona-attacks.html?fbclid=IwAR2dT28aA5BJvyX8YoBfneNOUbM5sIp6C_Ien3dg2rmHNmt6yAx4Sc8oazY