We are living not in a capitalist dystopia, we live in a modernist dystopia. That is, technology itself is the value, rather than a means to an end. You can li

We are living not in a capitalist dystopia, we live in a modernist dystopia. That is, technology itself is the value, rather than a means to an end. You can live in, say, in a socialist or fascist society, and you would still be subjected to modernism. It permeates everything. e.g. > It's kinda weird that you wouldn't just listen to your body. That's precisely the modernist sickness of the mind. The idea that we need technological mediation for cooking, eating, exercise,... and that because these activities are mediated by technology (ideally speaking, the high technology of that time), it is inherently better. The amish were famously the first to reject modernism, and they did so in quite an extreme fashion. They don't reject technology, but they reject the idea that technology is an inherent value. When we feel a general malaise, it is because we intuitively feel we are submitting to the machine, rather than having the machine submit to us. The suffering is real, and people have been describing it for a long long time. The problem is, we can't seem to shake it. There was already great clarity on these topics in the 70s. Yet, we keep doubling down. Technology needs to become a tool again, not an end of itself. Only then, when we've rejected modernism, we'll be able to imagine new futures.