/lit/ - Literature

>>22583592
>Scientists don't read science texts

Just finished Uncle Ted's manifesto.
Bit dumb, no?

>founds his ideas on a lot of baseless assumptions about primitive man's psychology
>minimizes or ignores both the liberating aspects of industrial society and the oppressive aspects of primitive society
>emphasizes the fact that technological progress can never be reversed yet still insists that an abandonment of technology is even remotely viable
>realizes this paradox very late into the text, shoves in a loosely-defined distinction between "small-scale" tech and "organization-dependent" tech to try and remedy it
>casually dismisses the potential for another industrial revolution, which logic would suggest is completely inevitable, as occuring so far in the future that who cares lmao XD
>wrote all of this while he lived alone in the woods and taught himself how to build bombs out of scraps, suggesting that even a single dissident could undermine everything he proposes by means of previously developed technology

Seems to me he's just like all the other intellectuals; very quick to point out the flawed thinking and irrational, emotional motivations of others, but makes no effort to turn the mirror on himself. Couldn't his entire quest to spread his ideology be interpreted as a surrogate activity, one that arose despite his adherence to "real" (survival) goals?

made me giggle when he called his work "a sober essay"