Gee’s Reviews > The Philosophy of Ted Kaczynski: Why the Unabomber was Right about Modern Technology > Status Update
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Leftism cannot rebel against Modern Technology, because Leftism quite literally is Modern Technology. The powerlessness of submitting to oversocialization generates feelings of inferiority that must be projected into the hopes for a massive movement which everyone is forced to join (i.e., the universal adoption of Socialism, the universal rejection of Religion, the universal acceptance of 68 genders etc.)
— Nov 21, 2023 07:12PM
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The discomforting truth is that “[n]onviolence works only when you have the police to protect you. In the absence of police protection, nonviolence is very nearly the equivalent to suicide.” No one really rejects all violence; rather, we have just outsourced its use to the police and the military.
— Nov 22, 2023 08:53AM
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...his references to “leftists” must not be misinterpreted as references to a literal set of human beings, let alone any one individual in particular. Rather, he chose to designate the leftist as a “psychological type” which could be reliably identified by a few recurring features, principally “feelings of inferiority” and “oversocialization.”
— Nov 21, 2023 07:10PM
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modern leftish philosophers are not simply cool-headed logicians systematically analysing 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 . . . Their attack is an outlet for hostility, and, to the extent that it is successful, it satisfies the drive for power
— Nov 19, 2023 09:12PM
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Kaczynski recognized that the System’s technical needs always will outcompete people’s subjective needs as early as the 1971 essay “Progress Versus Wilderness,” in which he questioned whether it is even possible to maintain technical and economic “progress” without worsening this conflict
— Nov 19, 2023 09:07PM
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Leftism is in the long run inconsistent with wild nature, with human freedom, and with the elimination of modern technology. Leftism is collectivist . . . [b]ut this implies management of nature and of human life by organized society and it requires advanced technology [and] sophisticated psychological techniques
— Nov 19, 2023 03:38PM
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against the possibility of consciously steering a society in a particular willed direction in the first chapter of Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How, titled “The Development of a Society can never be Subject to Rational Human Control.”
— Nov 18, 2023 05:24PM
