/lit/ - Literature

>>14844529
blocks your path

>>14845924
the first chapter of pic related.

>>14841277
yes.

>>14797952
"In today’s society the common people, generally speaking, seem to
have lost any conception of freedom beyond the kind that comes with days
off from work."

--Theodore Kaczynski, "Technological Slavery" (2019), p. 317.

"Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not
serve to guarantee much more than what might be called the bourgeois
conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a “free”
man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set
of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve
the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual. Thus
the bourgeois’s “free” man has economic freedom because that promotes
growth and progress; he has freedom of the press because public criticism
restrains misbehavior by political leaders; he has a right to a fair
trial because imprisonment at the whim of the powerful would be bad
for the system. This was clearly the attitude of Simón Bolívar. To him,
people deserved liberty only if they used it to promote progress (progress
as conceived by the bourgeois).28 Other bourgeois thinkers have taken a
similar view of freedom as a mere means to collective ends. Chester C.
Tan explains the philosophy of the Kuomintang leader Hu Han-Min: “An
individual is granted rights because he is a member of society and his
community life requires such rights. By community Hu meant the whole
society or the nation.”29 And Tan states that according to Carsun Chang
(Chang Chun-Mai, head of the State Socialist Party in China) freedom
had to be used in the interest of the state and of the people as a whole.30
But what kind of freedom does one have if one can use it only as someone
else prescribes? Our conception of freedom is not that of Bolívar, Hu,
Chang or other bourgeois theorists. The trouble with such theorists is
that they have made the development and application of social theories
their surrogate activity. Consequently the theories are designed to serve
the needs of the theorists more than the needs of any people who may be
unlucky enough to live in a society on which the theories are imposed."

--Theodore Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future (1995), paragraph 97.

>>14740397
blocks your path.

>>14662000