/lit/ - Literature

>>14788353
preemptively refuted by Ted Kaczynski
>18. Modern leftish philosophers tend to dismiss reason, science, objective reality and to insist that everything is culturally relative. It is true that one can ask serious questions about the foundations of scientific knowledge and about how, if at all, the concept of objective reality can be defined. But it is obvious that modern leftish philosophers are not simply cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality. They attack these concepts because of their own psychological needs. For one thing, their attack is an outlet for hostility, and, to the extent that it is successful, it satisfies the drive for power. More importantly, the leftist hates science and rationality because they classify certain beliefs as true (i.e., successful, superior) and other beliefs as false (i.e., failed, inferior). The leftist's feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior.

>>14756746
you don't. He was refuted by Ted Kaczynski

>>14738370
based and Kaczynski-pilled

>>14685345
>If Kant hadn't published his books we would be living in literal dark ages now.
good

All I do every day is think about how this guy could be wrong, but I can't do it. Modern life seems so absurd, I don't know how everyone is so okay with it.

WTF I just started to read him.
How do I stop being oversocialized?
I find that it describes me perfectly, but there must be a cure, right anons?

So what's the verdict on this guy?

He was right in the diagnosis, wrong regarding the cause. Technology has only lead us down this path because it was appropriated by capitalism.

>>14541276

once you're finished with Nietzsche you need to read anti-tech theory
Plato
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Lewis Mumford
Jacques Ellul
and the greatest of them all - Ted Kaczynski

>>14446909
>The philosophers have never, and will never generate any predictive models of anything, because they only write about opinions that can't be tested or verified.
yeah, and? if it wasn't for philosophical genius, we would have still been stuck with feudal kings. philosophy is literally all that matters but spergs think that technology can solve literally all world's problems even when this technology is caught in bondage of institutional restrictions which can only be removed via philosophical discourse embodied in the great social revolutions

>Live in the UK
>90% of the country is either farmland, housing or retail spaces
>The 10% of truly wild nature remaining is so far north and west that unless you live in those places you face a 6 hour+ car journey or a £200+ 8 hour train/bus ride just to get there
>When you do get there you realise the only reason it's been left alone is because it's freezing cold mountains without a tree in sight
>So for 99% of the population, truly wild nature is so far out of their reach it might as well not exist
>And for the 1 in 1,000,000 guy who says "fuck civilisation", he faces an existence in one of the harshest environments on earth
Is it any real wonder people drink themselves unconscious, drug themselves silly, eat themselves to vomiting or spend their lives playing video games and watching netflix and working dead end jobs to finance it all? They destroyed it all, every last bit of inhabitable land was divvied up and sold off. Even that tiny % who come face to face with the truth of life are only rewarded with the knowledge "you're too late". We live in the worst time period on Earth that has ever been.

"Industrial Society And Its Future" by Ted Kaczynski. would you like me to summarize it?

*solves political philosophy*

>>14422657
Ted Kaczynski "Industrial Society And Its Future" chapter "Oversocialization"

>>14419428
Ted Kaczynski "Industrial Society And Its Future"
Jacques Ellul "Technological Society"
Martin Heidegger "Question Concerning Technology"
Lewis Mumford "The Myth Of The Machine"
Neil Postman "Technopolis"
Aldous Huxley "Brave New World"
Murray Bookchin "The Ecology Of Freedom"
Jean Jacques Rousseau "Discourse on Inequality"
Karl Marx "Capital"
Emile Durkheim "Division Of Labour In Society"

>be a Kaczynskifag
>parents buy you iPhone for Christmas

There is no logical argument against NEETs.

If you can finance the lifestyle from any source, you should be a NEET. Your moral or ethical views are irrelevant, your appeals to emotion are irrelevant, your pathetic desire to be accepted by society is irrelevant. The only thing you need to thrive in this world is the ability to spend your time how you choose, and no man with a pair of testicles swinging between his legs chooses to be indentured for 9+ hours a day until the day he's too old to carry on, like a slave that gets beaten to death when it's too old to work. I repeat, the only worthwhile things you can do in this life are entirely free. You don't need money. You don't need society.

If they want to be weak and throw free money at you, let them.

>Refutes 2000 years of philosophy
Nothing personnel technoslave

>>14396294
Civilisation is a cruel evil demon

>>14285705
Unabomber manifesto. It's more about technology but there are some good parts on leftists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm

>15. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.

>Spend millions of years where your entire day was dedicated to hunting for food, water and socialising
>Finally evolved to modern homo sapiens and min max life so hard you spend your entire day doing fuck all
>So much time on your hands you have to think up arbitrary, abstract goals just to fill the empty space
>"DUDE WHAT'S THE MEANING OF IT ALL WE MUST BE HERE FOR A REASON WHAT'S THE TRUTH OF LIFE?"

>>14198513
>patent good!!

RIP