/lit/ - Literature

>mathematician
>philosopher
>terrorist
name a better combination. pro tip: you can't

>>16419744
you know what to do anon

Anyone has a decently formatted Mobi or AZW3 for Kindle of "Industrial Society and its future"? I converted mine trough Calibre, but it looks like shit

>>16094741
you can read the unabomber manifesto desu

Kaczynski is the most important philosopher of the century

>>16000895
>>16000909
>>16000923
Ted actually goes into leftist takeover of revolutionary movements and the destructive quality of that mechanism repeatedly. This is from the introduction to Technological Slavery, for example:

>The political left is technological society’s first line of defense against revolution. In fact, the left today serves as a kind of fire extinguisher that douses and quenches any nascent revolutionary movement. What do I mean by “the left ”? If you think that racism, sexism, gay rights, animal rights, indigenous people’s rights, and “social justice” in general are among the most important issues that the world currently faces, then you are a leftist as I use that term. If you don’t like this application of the world “leftist,” then you are free to designate the people I’m referring to by some other term. But, whatever you call them, the people who extinguish revolutionary movements are the people who are drawn indiscriminately to causes: racism, sexism, gay rights, animal rights, the environment, poverty, sweatshops, neocolonialism…it’s all the same to them. These people constitute a subculture that has been labeled “the adversary culture.” Whenever a movement of resistance begins to emerge, these leftists (or whatever you choose to call them) come swarming to it like flies to honey until they outnumber the original members of the movement, take it over, and turn it into just another leftist faction, thereby emasculating it.

Recently, this happened to Occupy Wall Street, and it is happening to Black Lives Matter (which already morphed into 'Black Trans Lives Matter') as we speak.

(2/2) English Manifesto:

>It is important that we, the rangers in particular, do not stop watching and do not let the connection go back. Do not trust technology so much, do not think in terms of paths, but observe and let the ideas come to you.
>First watch.

>[...] to be able to graze forests. A piece of freedom. It means...

German Medialink:
https://www.merkur.de/welt/oppenau-schwarzwald-bewaffneter-mann-yves-rausch-fahndung-taeter-polizeieinsatz-news-rambo-aktuell-zr-13829936.html

German manifesto (1/2):

Der kultivierte Mensch, der "zivilisierte" Mensch unterscheidet sich vom "wilden" Menschen und von den Tieren vor allem durch die Gabe, völlig ignorant zu sein. Der Wildnis ausgesetzt, würden die kultivierten Menschen direkt neben einem Teich verdursten, direkt neben einem Dickicht erfrieren, direkt neben tausend essbaren Sachen verhungern.
Das liegt vor allem daran, dass die Menschen zu technisch denken. Technik löst alle Probleme. Auch viele Waldläufer, Survivor und Outdoor'ler denken in diesem Schema. Eine Mütze hält die Hitze der Sonne ab - aber wo bekomme ich eine Mütze her? Warum nicht einfach in den Schatten gehen?
Ich bin "überraschenderweise" gezwungen draußen zu übernachten. "oh, wo binekomme ich Flechtmaterial her, wie baue ich eine Hütte, mit welcher Technik fälle ich einen Baum" ... anstatt einfach in den nächsten Busch zu kriechen und sich auf die Seite zu hauen. Für eine Nacht ein Blockhaus bauen zu wollen, ist typisch "Konsummensch".
Wir als zivilisierte Menschen sind einfach an Technik gewöhnt. Unser Alltag ist dermaßen von Technik bestimmt, dass wir völlig den Sinn für das einfache Leben verloren haben. Wenn wir täglich mit Töpfen auf Herdplatten kochen, gelingt es uns einfach nicht, ohne Töpfe auszukommen. Wir veruschen Ersatz zu schaffen für Dinge, die wir sonst im Alltag betätigen.
Die Probleme, auf die man in den Wald trifft, lassen sich aber nicht immer durch bekannte Technik lösen. Und dort kommt die Beobachtung ins Spiel. Die Beobachtung ist immens wichtig, um Dinge zu verstehen. Um Probleme zu erkennen und zu definieren. Die "Ich weiß schon, was ich brauche... ich weiß schon wie ich vorgehe" - Haltung, wäre im echten Leben draußen unter Umständen tödlich.

Have you watched the documentation on Netflix about Ted?

Here are a few things, that suprised me:

>ted, after having had four dates with a woman was dumped.
Around this time he had proudly announced to his brother David, that she had kissed him.
After being dumped however he was devistated and posted disgusting letters on doors where had had worked with his brother.
Because his brother was on a higher "rank" he threatened him with firing him if he kept on.
He later was fired.

>Because of this and other instances such as skipping a grade, he had never felt as he was being accepted. Thus he felt disconnected..

>Later on he wanted to have a sexchange and wrote in his diaries about doing so. After going to his psychiatric assistant, he was dismissed and it made him unusually angry. Later on he wrote about how great it would be to kill everyone he hates.

>He also watched his nextdoor neighbor's go in a hottub fully naked.

>When he was little, he became really sick and thus was brought to the hospital, which would only let his parents visit him twice a week for 2 h. Because of this he was not able to great a bond with his mother and was not laughing or even looking them in the eyes as much as he had done before.

>In the only interview that he had participated in, he later on said that all of his acts were mainly personal.

Why such aversion to pleasure (surrogacy/surrogate activities)?

>One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is leftism, so a discussion of the psychology of leftism can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of modern society in general.

>But what is leftism? During the first half of the 20th century leftism could have been practically identified with socialism. Today the movement is fragmented and it is not clear who can properly be called a leftist. When we speak of leftists in this article we have in mind mainly socialists, collectivists, "politically correct" types, feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like. But not everyone who is associated with one of these movements is a leftist. What we are trying to get at in discussing leftism is not so much a movement or an ideology as a psychological type, or rather a collection of related types. Thus, what we mean by "leftism" will emerge more clearly in the course of our discussion of leftist psychology.

>The two psychological tendencies that underlie modern leftism we call "feelings of inferiority" and "oversocialization." Feelings of inferiority are characteristic of modern leftism as a whole, while oversocialization is characteristic only of a certain segment of modern leftism; but this segment is highly influential.

>By "feelings of inferiority" we mean not only inferiority feelings in the strict sense but a whole spectrum of related traits; low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, depressive tendencies, defeatism, guilt, self-hatred, etc. We argue that modern leftists tend to have some such feelings (possibly more or less repressed) and that these feelings are decisive in determining the direction of modern leftism.

>By "feelings of inferiority" we mean not only inferiority feelings in the strict sense but a whole spectrum of related traits; low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, depressive tendencies, defeatism, guilt, self-hatred, etc. We argue that modern leftists tend to have some such feelings (possibly more or less repressed) and that these feelings are decisive in determining the direction of modern leftism.

>When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him (or about groups with whom he identifies) we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem. This tendency is pronounced among minority rights activists, whether or not they belong to the minority groups whose rights they defend. They are hypersensitive about the words used to designate minorities and about anything that is said concerning minorities.

>Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person. Political correctness has its stronghold among university professors, who have secure employment with comfortable salaries, and the majority of whom are heterosexual white males from middle- to upper-middle-class families.

Read Ted

why does he hate fun so much? he dedicates a dozen pages to shitting on surrogate activities.