/lit/ - Literature

Was it his atheistic hubris that made him chimp out at the world for not being ordered to his liking?

Ellul was a technology critic too but was balanced by his faith. It seems like Ted's lack of a bigger picture made the material organisation of society the most important thing.

ITT: Post thinkers/writers who were proven right by the COVID pandemic

Ok, now seriously - how the fuck do I rewire my zoomer brain to handle complex literature after years of stimulation by easy access to pornography and social media?

>>16107940
By preventing it from ever happening

Why do anprims believe that escaping from technology will bring them freedom from being a slave?
Yes, they won’t be slaves to technology when they do that.

But instead, they’ll turn into slaves to nature.

Realize this.
True freedom is impossible.
The human’s destiny is to be a slave.
There is no escape.

Why do anprims believe that escaping from technology will bring them freedom from being a slave?
Yes, they won’t be slaves to technology when they do that.

But instead, they’ll turn into slaves to nature.

Realize this.
True freedom is impossible.
The human’s destiny is to be a slave.

holy based

take a week off (should be easy with the recent corona epidemic)
eliminate ALL electronic devices from your life, emphasis put on TV phones and computers
read and meditate for the whole week, try to rethink yourself
you're welcome

>>14752624
>zoomers had their brains rewired by ubiquitous technology, we are nourishing a generation that consists of illiterate idiots who think too highly of themselves with a diet based on information overcharge, debilitating technological distraction and promiscuous culture
gee if only there had been a thinker who predicted that long ago

>>14645949
Industrial Society and Its Future

>>14627096
Industrial Society And Its Future

How do Tedfags feel about the fact that his work was founded upon a mistranslation of Ellul's Technique into Technology in general?

>>14582954
>d-don't cure this thing that i use to define myself by
>i-it'll make me less special :(

the logical conclusion of this thinking is a society of atomized individuals living in a sedentary state within confines of their rooms and taking pills/using technology to """cure""" any """ailment" they encounter. want sex? just take the sex pill, man! want human contact? just bond with this antropomorphic robot, man! this is incidentally what liberalism always strived for though its fathers certainly had good intentions and couldn't have possibly anticipated the trajectory their thought would follow.

>>14549802
wow that's great news! all those genetically inferior people's lives have been saved! now they can safely breed with others thus further diffusing their inferior genes and making the entire society more susceptible to those diseases! take your dicks out for science and technology boys, I guess Ted Kaczynski has been debunked

>>14530333
Plato - Complete Works
Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract, Emile, Two Discourses
David Ricardo - Principles..., chapter On Machinery
Charles Babbage - On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
Karl Marx - Capital vol 1
Charles
Jacques Ellul - Technological Society
Lewis Mumford - Technics and Civilization
Martin Heidegger - Question Concerning Technology
Stanislaw Lem - Summa technologiae
Ted Kaczynski - Industrial Society and its Future

>noone is too small to make a difference
>suggest that the West becomes less dependent on carbon consuming technology such as smartphones, computers etc.
>HAHAHA OK BOOMER INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS ARE NOT ENOUGH WE NEED A HUGE POLITICAL MACHINERY TO DEAL WITH CLIMATE CHANGE
what did (((thunberg))) mean by this?

Jacques Ellul, "Technological Society"

>>14419132
>The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

Plato
Rousseau
Ellul
Mumford
Kaczynski

>>14415989
do you mean it finally clicked that you have searched in vain for a perfect socioeconomic system, that capitalism and socialism are both guises of the same technoindustrial system that has become bigger than life and has gained autonomy and that Marxism/Fascism/any radicalism that upholds values already implicit in the technoindustrial system serves to merely allow oversocialized people to excercise their power process through """radical""" political action that leaves the technoindustrial system unaltered and furthermore that the only meaningful rebellion must be against the technoindustrial system itself?