Mentally diseased woman hating racist antI-semite incel who unapologetically killed innocent people says "fuck the system" and that's what anyone focuses on?

“Just a sec”

puts on gigantic goose costume

I don't know... I've always found Kaczinsky an interesting guy, but now that I'm around halfway through his book, I find his arguements surprisingly weak as in he doesn't really put a lot of effort into justifying the basics. He just goes on to say "yeah obfuscating the process of survival is bad" and sure I can see how some people might find hunting rabbits with bows more fulfilling than looking at Excel all day but if you don't accept that immediately then his arguements become pretty weak.

Fuck Kaczynski, read Bookchin.

Big Ted. What a nice nickname for someone who I'm sure was a nice young man.

Industrial revolution stands on the shoulders of a giant called the agricultural revolution.

I brake for hunter gatherers.

Learning to walk upright and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

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I identify as a “honkee”

We are undeniably better off because of the industrial revolution. It's caused problems but those are well worth it for the benefit.

If you gain this, you will inevitably lose that.

I would argue that the Agricultural Revolution was the turning point that set humanity on its current path, for better and worse.

To be fair, life before agriculture was often harsh, but many of the problems that define civilization today, such as large-scale warfare, rigid social hierarchies, widespread inequality, organized slavery, and systemic exploitation, became possible only after humans settled down and began producing agricultural surpluses.

Regardless of what is happening in the world right now, we are living in one of the most peaceful and prosperous periods in human history. Aside from the anti-vaccination movement, which is a travesty for humanity, we have the best medicine, the highest life expectancy, and the lowest infant mortality rates in history.

That said, I suspect humans are better adapted to living in small migratory bands of hunters and gatherers than in large, sedentary urban societies. Civilization has given us extraordinary technology and material comfort, but it may have come at the cost of the social structures, physical activity, and close-knit communities that humans evolved to thrive in.

getting older is realizing the Unabomber may have had a point...

I read his writing for the first time recently. It certainly sticks with you. He was certainly no dummy. I still take issue with some of his stances. Big of me, I know.

I made an attempt to read that guy's book once. Holy hell the man is a nutter, and not a writer by any means.

I made it a quarter of the way through, if that. Absolute waffle.

Fun fact: You wouldn't be driving behind them or honking your horn if it wasn't for the industrial revolution.

The more you know...