/lit/ - Literature

>>14509356
>>14509395
His use of the samurai metaphor is very appropriate.

The core idea Ted is articulating, is that people NEED power. Power is fundamental to living a healthy and fulfilling life. Not power over other people, but power through nature. the ability to set your own serious and life-and-death goals and accomplish them autonomously. Women are becoming miserable in our society because they are wired to a great extent to have power THROUGH men (i.e. by manipulating and controlling THEIR men). But as men become weakened by industrial society, women's power is also weakened. Instead, they are encouraged to experience power not through individual men, but by participating in the industrial system (through technical roles, careers, businesses etc.). But in this case, their experience of power is far more restricted than what it once was through men in less technological contexts.

>>14083959
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

"People don’t need
only fun, they need purposeful work, and they need to have control not only
over the pleasure-oriented aspects of their lives but over the serious, practical,
purposeful, life-and-death aspects. That kind of control is not possible
in modern society because we are all at the mercy of large organizations.
Up to a point, having fun is good for you. But it’s not an adequate substitute
for serious, purposeful activity. For lack of this kind of activity people in our
society get bored. They try to relieve their boredom by having fun. They seek
new kicks, new thrills, new adventures. They masturbate their emotions by
experimenting with new religions, new art-forms, travel, new cultures, new
philosophies, new technologies. But still they are never satisfied, they always
want more, because all of these activities are purposeless. People don’t realize
that what they really lack is serious, practical, purposeful work—work that is
under their own control and is directed to the satisfaction of their own most
essential, practical needs."

--Theodore Kaczynski, Technological Slavery (2019), p. 250

Kaczynski is a better writer, and goes far beyond Ellul in his analysis. Also, Ellul only offers a vague kind of spiritual revolution. Kaczynski's concept of revolution aimed to force the collapse of the industrial system is very concrete and highly logical

This is why "Anti-Tech Revolution," his second book, is so great and totally undeniably established Kaczynski as ahead of Ellul and similar people.

>>13942497
this.

>>13675348
There is SOME truth in this (it's not clear what you mean by "align").

He says that capitalism is an inevitable outgrowth of our current level of technology, and that it won't be replaced with some other system until the technological environment changes to favor that different system. In simple terms, it's a symptom, not the root cause. The essay by him that you need to read is "Stay on Target" which is in his new edition of the book "Technological Slavery"