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14327371 No.14327371 [Reply] [Original]

Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient milieu to which he was adapted for hundreds of thousands of years . In our cities there is no more day or night or heat or cold. But there is overpopulation, thralldom to press and television, total absence of purpose. All men are constrained by means external to them to ends equally external. The further the technical mechanism develops that allows us to escape natural necessity, the more we are subjected to artificial technical necessities.

>> No.14327379

>>14327371
What would he have made of the internet and 4chan lads

>> No.14327398

>>14327371
lol thats short sighted

>> No.14327477

Dear Enclosed Person

To exit, you find the place where the shell was at the bottom of the sea. The ground is right beneath your face. Primitive and deadly. It is cold in the winter. Yesterday it was warm. Today you might see that the times are bleak. We have gathered dust, it seems. Naturally, the flesh ripens.
But our words speak of defiance and our fingers speak of hope and--fear.

Overpopulation, yes.

>>14327371
Everything else seems a fabrication.

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14328076

>>14327398
This

Almost nobody is adapter to the ancient world any more. 15 generations of pioneer farming, picking cotton, sitting on your ass counting money, or sucking up to the dictator will make you a whole new species.