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by qpooqpoo 8y ago
Why??? Why on earth would you want to bias a reader and make him/her prejudicial to ideas. The whole point of rational inquiry is to dispassionately asses ideas on their own merits. This is why we have double-blind review. And at a
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by qpooqpoo 8y ago
I agree. I recommend that you read Kaczynski's two books: "Technological Slavery" (2010) and "Anti-Tech Revolution"(2016). The second book is truly extraordinary and insightful. Here's a review by MIT: "
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by qpooqpoo 8y ago
But "mental health" also implies specific value judgements which are relative to the dominant ideology of a society or civilization. It's these value judgements that determine how the "averages" or the data in gene
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by qpooqpoo 8y ago
There's a lot that's wrong with this post, which is at odds with all the available anthropology on hunter-gatherer tribes. For instance, the death by age 30 idea is completely misleading. While it's true that infant-mortali
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by qpooqpoo 8y ago
This is totally false. In modern techno-industrial society you have abundant freedom to do meaningless things--you have a ton of choices in how you fritter away your time in hedonistic pursuits--but in all practical, life-and-death choices
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by qpooqpoo 8y ago
"find a place where he is welcome to do so." These places are disappearing rapidly from the map. There's very little wild country left, and at the rate economic growth is going, there probably wont be any left in several dec
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by qpooqpoo 8y ago
Also read his two books: "Technological Slavery" and "Anti-Tech Revolution"
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by qpooqpoo 9y ago
"Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is Kaczynski’s well-reasoned, cohesive composition about how revolutionary groups should approach our mercurial future….. I recommend that you read this compelling perspective on how we can frame our
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by qpooqpoo 9y ago
Kaczynski has written two books since his incarceration: TECHNOLOGICAL SLAVERY (2010) and ANTI-TECH REVOLUTION: WHY AND HOW (2016) His essential points, according to the preface to Technological Slavery, are: 1) Technological progress is ca
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by qpooqpoo 9y ago
Yes, he is a remorseless killer. No he's not "batshit crazy". You might also want to check out his most recent work, "Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How" (2016) Here's what MIT's student newspaper had to s
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by qpooqpoo 9y ago
It's so refreshing to actually read a truly free thinking and intelligent discussion on the problems of technology and its impacts on society. Anyway, I just finished reading Kaczynski's first book, "Technological Slavery&quo