/lit/ - Literature

>>16456792
bump

>>16448611
Definitely making us more insane. Kaczynski is right.

>>16437988
"As for your colleague’s claim that the “overall material standard
of living seems to be increasing,” the way that works is that the technoindustrial
system simply defines the term “high standard of living” to
mean the kind of living that the system itself provides, and the system then
“discovers” that the standard of living is high and increasing. But to me
and to many, many other people a high material standard of living consists
not in cars, television sets, computers, or fancy houses, but in open spaces,
forests, wild plants and animals, and clear-flowing streams. As measured
by that criterion our material standard of living is falling rapidly."

--Kaczynski, Technological Slavery (2019), p. 164.

>>16416810
Kaczynski's works are amazing and must-reads.

don't be a fag.

>Read Kacyznski's books
>become totally convinced
>only collapse of industrial civilization can avert disaster
>there must be a revolutionary movement to force collapse
>be me
>cowardly
>addicted to vidya and porno and fast food
>can barely bring myself to make Kaczynski threads on 4chan

I feel totally trapped, like I know what needs to be done but I can't bring myself to take the leap and do it. Any books on how to break free from restraints and take the next steps necessary?

>>16401667
certainly Kaczynski.

Any seriously dangerous books that are not currently censored but will likely be in the future?

>>16238612

>>16182334
probably the most important piece of writing in the last 300 years.

>>16186799
this.

>>16098132
Soon he'll be Ted-pilled, just like journalist poo-in-the-loo-apu: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/lost-at-the-mall/article32303678.ece

>>16100923
pic related.

>>15835599
pic related

>>15394533
this

>>15340650
yep.

>>15331620
>i just need more of Kaczynski
What are all of the writings written by Kaczynski that you have read so far?

>>15314623

>>15305347
this. 100x

>>15293468
it's not accurate to say reproduction has been outsourced to the third world. rather, reproduction has become scientifically mechanized and is now meaningless.

>>15292433
this. x1000.

>>15285402
only god, or a revolution.

>>15260157
Yes

>>15256647
yes absolutely.

his ideas are original in many areas and re-articulations of age-old ideas in others. The central point is the autonomy of technology: the idea that societies evolve organically like organisms in biology, and their evolution is beyond prediction and control. when increasing means is added to this mix (i.e. technology), the results are disastrous both to human freedom and to the integrity of the biosphere. so, it is about technology itself, not its mis-use.

I think they are absolutely right. But you have to have some--around a college level I think--understanding of history and you have to learn to reason clearly. If your only education has been average public school and college humanities then your brain has probably been so perverted and your thinking ability so retarded that it will be much harder. but if you and your family worked hard to educate you in critical thinking and your reasonably intelligent, then it's no problem.

similar books: "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul is the closest, but it's all very depressing. It's not focused on doing anything about the situation, only expressing in elegant prose the problem of modern life and the autonomy of technology.

You really should be doing a deep dive into anthropology books after Kaczynski to reevaluate primitive life.

Has anyone here read Kaczynski's unpublished autobiography "Truth vs. Lies"? I know you can request it from University of Michigan, but I thought it was also floating online.

>In deciding what position to take on any issue, the editors, publishers, and owners of the media must consciously or unconsciously balance several factors. They must consider how their readers or viewers will react to what they print or broadcast about the issue, they must consider how their advertisers, their peers in the media, and other powerful persons will react, and they must consider the effect on the security of the System of what they print or broadcast.

>These practical considerations will usually outweigh whatever personal feelings they may have about the issue. The personal feelings of the media leaders, their advertisers, and other powerful persons are varied. They may be liberal or conservative, religious or atheistic. The only universal common ground among the leaders is their commitment to the System, its security, and its power. Therefore, within the limits imposed by what the public is willing to accept, the principal factor determining the attitudes propagated by the media is a rough consensus of opinion among the media leaders and other powerful people as to what is good for the System.