/lit/ - Literature

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Sorry for the long reply.

>Does he lobby for the destruction of post-industrial technology, or is that mostly his followers?

I really don't know. I don't think that's a concern - he's not really a theorist as to post-collapse states. Mostly he focuses on destroying the present order and why this should be done, and merely argues that such problems reemerging again are to be tackled by the generations that confront them anew.

>I would think that if he was a proper intellectual and did not operate off of a personal feeling that he has a stake in all this

He's never had a pretence of being a 'proper intellectual', imo. He's quite open that he himself is motivated because he is one of those people who fall into premise b in the prev post.

>he would instead focus on the destruction of the unwell masses via automation, rather than the destruction of technology.

If I think I'm correctly interpreting you, you're suggesting his scope is too broad; his target should not be technology as a whole, but merely those types of technology that rob people of their ability to exercise the power process and be autonomous agents.

This is a good point. However, it is the case that most complex technology does require a massive degree of economic and technical infrastructure that necessarily involves the hyper-intensive division of labour; ie, non-autonomous agents who also will require remuneration of base needs as they will lack the and energy to feed/cloth themselves (and thus rely on their industrial labour as a surrogate activity).

And once such a system is in place, it is hard to prevent those in the top 20% of the Pareto distribution consolidating their gains through institutions and processes that further contribute to automation and industrial complexity.

In truth, I think the only hope that doesn't involve a violent insurrectionist anarchy that necessitates the Crucifixion of tech nerds is through creating a frontier for those who can't find surrogate activities or require autonomy to apply themselves. Ironically, Kaczynski inadvertently seems to provide for me one of the best arguments there is for space colonisation - it's the only non-destructive release valve for advanced mass societies in the face of the immense psychological duress they generate.