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I'd call it Butlerian Jihadism or just Butlerism, but then again, it's kinda niche :p

• skyyler 3y ago
  It's not as niche as you'd think. The kids are talking about the unabomber's manifesto. I'm pretty concerned by that.
  • hotpotamus 3y ago
    Here's[0] an article Bill Joy wrote at the turn of the millennium wherein he quoted the unabomber and spent a lot of time thinking about the power of then emerging technologies. Kaczynski was obviously intelligent (with academic creds too) and had thought through many of the implications of tech long before most others had. His actions were insane, but his malcontentment with technology perhaps was not. [0]https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/ https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/
  • cykros 3y ago
    I'd be more concerned at any point if kids stopped taking things to extremes and missing out on the nuances of things. It's what kids do. It's more concerning when in their mid twenties, early 30s, they don't grow up. Which seems to have more to do with the general infantilization arising from a variety of factors, perhaps most notably crippling debt for which they themselves are the pledged collateral, by which of course I mean student loans, which stops them from starting families, owning homes, and generally getting the experience of actually having responsibility for various systems that require having an intimate experience with nuance.