/lit/ - Literature

>>16306602
He did "make it" you nigger, he had a job as a professor at UC Berkeley when he was 25, he could have easily landed some premier pussy too. He got fed up tho and felt like living in civilization was like being cogs in a machine. He gave all that up by his own accord and never once he felt regret, you should read his books.

>>16269597
He isn't advocating for dissembling only the American technoindustrial civiliazation, but every one on earth, Chinese and Indian too. I too have these same doubts though, that how would such a revolution be brought about that would destroy everything at once, because otherwise it would be useless. Nations and systems still don't seem to be enough interlinked- if one were to destroy America overnight, it wouldn't have such effects that others would be destroyed as well.
I am currently reading his Technological Slavery, maybe he will clear up this topic in there? To me right now the only scenario this might happen is a nuclear fallout, but then that would destroy a lot of life other than humanity as well.

>The enemy is the greed and hubris in the heart of each man, not a figurehead or an asset, easily replaced by the next sucker.

Greed and hubris have been a part of humanity forever, but they never wrecked such havoc as they do now because humans never had so much power.
Also the system is kinda structured in such a way that the greediest people end up at the top, and it will always be the same.

>And at least make an effort to live out your own principles before bitching that the rest of the world isn't doing so.
Well Ted went and lived in the mountains, but the technoindustrial system wouldn't leave him alone, and came a-logging and destroying behind him. Are you really as naive as to believe that if a few people start living more concientious lives the destruction of earth that is underway would stop automatically?

How can anyone read this manifesto and not understand what's going on and that the left has been psyop'd into Oblivion? How do we continue fighting the industrial society?
Green Capitalism vs. Green Socialism? What will be the economic system of the future?
When will the left take the Ted Pill?
How do we solve the oversocialized leftist problem?

How can anyone read this manifesto and not understand what's going on and that the left has been psyop'd into Oblivion? How do we continue fighting the industrial society?
Green Capitalism vs. Green Socialism? What will be the economic system of the future?
When will the left take the Ted Pill?
How do we solve the oversocialized leftist problem?

How can anyone read this manifesto and not understand what's going on and that the left has been psyop'd into Oblivion? How do we continue fighting the industrial society?
Green Capitalism vs. Green Socialism? What will be the economic system of the future?
When will the left take the Ted Pill?
Discuss.

>>13168370
technocrat SCUM

>>12694520
good anti tech book

Like this

The question concerning technology is the only relevant question of our age.

What is he wrong about?

The question concerning technology is the only relevant question of our age.

Has anyone here read Anti-Tech Revolution? I've read Ted's manifesto and a few books by Ellul. Is Anti-Tech Revolution worth reading?

Seriously, I'm reading through it and he is very convincing. I think he is far too conclusive but a lot of his analysis is, to put it simply, very accurate. Here is a passage of his discussing oversocialization and psychoanalysis of the left

>25. The moral code of our society is so demanding that no one can think, feel and act in a completely moral way. For example, we are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not. Some people are so highly socialized that the attempt to think, feel and act morally imposes a severe burden on them. In order to avoid feelings of guilt, they continually have to deceive themselves about their own motives and find moral explanations for feelings and actions that in reality have a non-moral origin. We use the term “oversocialized” to describe such people.

>28. The leftist of the oversocialized type tries to get off his psychological leash and assert his autonomy by rebelling. But usually he is not strong enough to rebel against the most basic values of society. Generally speaking, the goals of today’s leftists are NOT in conflict with the accepted morality. On the contrary, the left takes an accepted moral principle, adopts it as its own, and then accuses mainstream society of violating that principle. Examples: racial equality, equality of the sexes, helping poor people, peace as opposed to war, nonviolence generally, freedom of expression, kindness to animals. More fundamentally, the duty of the individual to serve society and the duty of society to take care of the individual. All these have been deeply rooted values of our society (or at least of its middle and upper classes [4] for a long time. These values are explicitly or implicitly expressed or presupposed in most of the material presented to us by the mainstream communications media and the educational system. Leftists, especially those of the oversocialized type, usually do not rebel against these principles but justify their hostility to society by claiming (with some degree of truth) that society is not living up to these principles.

>would you rather die a good man or live a monster?

>You ENJOY reading literature? That's just a SURROGATE ACTIVITY, bro.