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Technics and Civilization, Lewis Mumford

I'm planning on making a thread on his ideas to help determine just that.

Yeah, I also doubt his intentions were purely motivated by ideological beliefs about the dangers of technology. Like you said, fifteen years is a long...

Like I said, it's complicated, probably one of the toughest issues that one thinks about when reading his works. I think violence can be justified, so...

It's complicated. K definitely has a twisted streak (e.g. his journal entries expressing glee when he learned his bombs had killed people). Yet his id...

Technological Slavery, Ted Kaczynski turns out crazy old uncle ted has some interesting ideas

Obviously I largely agree, however lately from various things I have read I have started to wonder if the optimism/pessimism divide is a product of a ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=720O_yBLrTs god he's still going

Also, Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How, Ted Kaczynski.

Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott The Technological Society, Jacques Ellul

Finished The True Believer by Eric Hoffer. Very good, would recommend.

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When I first saw the news, in my gut I thought: Pfizer probably sat on its vaccine until after the election because a Biden administration would be mo...

Nevada just got called by AP.

It's finally fucking over, goddamn

eight, motherfucker

stop, you have violated the law :lol:

https://i.ibb.co/19Gp3SB/triggered.jpg

Yesterday I thought Trump had Georgia but yeah now I'm not so sure. Would be pretty cool to see a lone blue island in a sea of red.

:up: This is the beginning not the end

What are the estimates for when we will know the last few states?

It's looking like Nevada will decide who wins the election.

Me, us, everyone, idk

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Jan_Matejko_-_Sta%C5%84czyk_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/suoGNEg.png From here.

Texas is gonna be a shitshow

like most things, when done in moderation, it's fine, healthy even

Actually I think at least in some cases the allure of fascism is not personal domination but just a want for a master, someone to work for and be herd...

I think something that tends to happen with philosophy is that you loop back to where you started from, but afterwards you have a better understanding...

Unless they have no other alternative, which very well could be the case.

Industrial Society and its Future, Ted Kaczynsky

Male Fantasies v1 piqued my interest. Picked up a copy, fascinating read.

Until they come back again... :worry:

Most of the time the only value of reading is to better calibrate your sense of what not to read.

I get that, sometimes I'm the same way. Other times, it just seems like LARP-ing, dressing up in costumes for fun, "I am a so-and-so who believes in s...

Do you think the quest for wisdom in philosophy could be just a dream, a mirage? I'm sympathetic to this. It's absurd to think that 2K years of thinki...

I think a measurement of progress in philosophy could be the degree in which questions of a particular domain are classified. We break them down into ...

If every member of a group comes to believe that the group that they are a part of should not exist, and they collectively decide to disband the group...

https://twitter.com/CDPHE/status/1319731941835329536 It's easier to stay indoors in CO, especially NoCo, on account of the wildfires making the atmosp...

No shit! I just started re-reading this.

I think this sounds vaguely Buddhist? There are lots of labels for things, including the label "thing" and the label "label". The sense of self is jus...

Oh yeah I see now.

The reply name contains a link to the comment, which fulfills the same function without duplicating text :up:

:fire: That was fantastic.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-will-run-again-2024-if-he-loses-joe-biden-says-steve-bannon-1540118 Another tacit admission of failure, loss and...

Yeah, it seems like it has. It'll come and go, and return once more.

Silver-linings are understood to be accidental goods that come about from things that are otherwise bad. They are not something to be sought after in ...

Agreed. This seems like a specific instance of the broader asymmetry and deprivationalist account (re: intra-worldly balance) of pleasure and pain. Is...