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by qpooqpoo 3y ago
No, Kaczynski compiled his own writings. He also wrote a second book, Anti-Tech Revolution. In Kacynski's latest edition of Technological Slavery Skrbina's introduction doesn't even appear. It was a shitty introduction any
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by qpooqpoo 3y ago
The book Technological Slavery is not "by" David Skrbina. It is by Theodore Kaczynski. Skrbina just wrote the "afterward" in that book.
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by qpooqpoo 4y ago
Anti-Tech Revolution and Technological Slavery are both amazing books and must-reads.
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by qpooqpoo 4y ago
His books are even better. "Anti-Tech Revolution" and "Technological Slavery".
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
Agreed.
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
Thank you for this discussion. Suffice it to say I think you are dead wrong here. But a debate on the points you now raise is beyond the time I have to devote now.
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
"(a) humans behaved the way he needs them to behave for his system to work." This is flatly wrong. Humans aren't "needed" to behave in this system in any way other than they have always behaved throughout history.
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
You're still conflating the success of a tactic in furtherance of a goal with the success of a goal.
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
"..the Unabomber gets remembered as this struggle's John Brown, not this struggle's Abraham Lincoln." You could be right about this. But then you could be wrong. Ideas still matter, and their particular expression stil
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
On this point you would do well to read the third chapter of "Anti-Tech Revolution." In it, Kaczynski argues for why an anti-tech revolution as he lays out would succeed and why its success would be more or less permanent while a
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
"You appear to be assuming the communist manifesto was a success due to the Russian Revolution." You've missed the point. The point is not that the communist manifesto was ultimately successful or not judging by how its ideas
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
Now, when looking at the short-term (historically speaking), Kaczynski's actions have been a resounding success. The manifesto and his other works are read by millions--far far more than if they were published traditionally where they
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
This only makes sense if you place a limited and arbitrary timeframe on when "success" must be achieved, and what the "success" should be. Remember, the communist manifesto was published in 1848, and by your standard of
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
"His approach was not successful, no." According to what criteria do you make this determination?
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
"The tranquility he's describing would, I imagine, guide one to understand that you can't control other people's actions." This makes no sense.
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
Also check out Kaczynski's books: "Technological Slavery" and "Anti-Tech Revolution."
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
"...whether or not murder is acceptable..." Here you're begging the question. Murder is unjustified killing, and by calling something murder before you've even fully determined the truth of the justification, your premi
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
Check out "Anti-Tech Revolution." That's his second book.
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
“There is an old saying in politics: ‘As soon as you start explaining, you have lost.’ It becomes incredibly difficult to counter misinformation with a point by point rebuttal—even when you are trying to bring science to bear. Any liar and
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
What are you worried about? A debate about facts on a controversial topic with someone who is interested in it? Why does everyone here seem so timid and silly? Is it really necessary to get your panties in a bundle about someone intereste
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
This constitutes the "proof" that Kaczynski was somehow lastingly affected by the study? A writers theory in a book? The problem with that is that I can just as well present evidence that the book is completely inaccurate: http
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
"If anything's a conspiracy theory, it's that the entirety of your comment history on Hacker News, spanning 2 years is to post solely on the topic of the Unabomber, and that you do the same thing on Reddit." How is that
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
Kaczynski has come out and said it wasn't stressful, and that it was mostly multiple choice questions. Other participants in the study and other researchers involved have come out and stated that it was benign. No other students involv
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
Yes, this is more or less correct. You should absolutely read Kaczynski's two books as well, "Technological Slavery" and "Anti-Tech Revolution."
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
"200 hours of brutal psychological experimentation" This is a conspiracy theory and a myth.
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by qpooqpoo 6y ago
"Not to fail in an ad hominem" You mean TO fail in an ad hominem.
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by qpooqpoo 7y ago
Also the books "Anti-Tech Revolution" and "Technological Slavery"
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by qpooqpoo 7y ago
"...Thus we are left with the inescapable conclusion that democracy became the dominant political form of the modern world not through human choice but because of an objective fact, namely, the association of democracy, since the begin
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by qpooqpoo 7y ago
"Technological Slavery" and "Anti-Tech Revolution"
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by qpooqpoo 8y ago
You should certainly also read the books "Technological Slavery" (2010) and "Anti-Tech Revolution" (2016) by Kaczynski

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