Thread 106181189

Technology was a mistake.

>>106181189 (OP)
Hi Ted

it's actually so depressing. every new technology is just different ways to optimize working

>>106181189 (OP)
I'm a weird guy also, with occasional peaks of arrogance and a wish for the world to read my words.
But it's crazy to me (if it's true) to see this guy thinking it's going to be useful to bomb random stuff. It's like he could not accept defeat or something, so he became chaotic.

I find it weird to think this guy is intelligent when I see its path. But maybe that's a lack of perspective? I'm not getting what he was trying to achieve by doing what he did. What led him to think "yeah I'm gonna bomb random people that'll show them".

I have fucked up thoughts, but they're always precisely targeted to individuals that fucked me up. And I'd prefer to isolate myself than to become even a justified murderer.
So why does this guy, having his faraway peace, still sent bombs? It's like he could never detach mentally from something.

>>106181189 (OP)
Have you ever read a pop-sci article where they take some complicated topic and "explain" it at about a third grade level for the "I heckin' love science!" crowd?

That is what Kaczynski is to Ellul.

Have you ever met someone who swears they love and are fascinated by some topic, but they've never engaged in it in any way other than those pop-sci articles?

That is what Kaczynski fans are to Ellul.

>tl;dr: Go read Ellul, instead of reading a pop-sci level understanding of his ideas filtered through schizophrenia

>>106181189 (OP)
Aren't you supposed to be dead right now?

>>106181618
You can't kill an ideology

>>106181342
Ted just broke, he tried to isolate but they just kept fucking with him and when he saw a piece of nature near his cabin asphalted he just snapped and started making those bombs I doubt he gave a fuck at that point, just wanted to make someone pay.

>>106182189
It isn't even that interesting. He was just a schizo. Industrial Society and It's Future literally ends with a long rant begging people to be non-violent, because if you are violent, people will focus on the violence and condemning it rather than the ideas you are attempting to call attention to. He wrote this after mailing people bombs. Truly the worst schizo idealized on this board. Even Terry was more interesting and coherent.

>>106181189 (OP)
normalshits observing one of those rat experiments where they subject the rats to awful stimuli to yield objectively detrimental social conditions
>wow that's bad wtf
normalshits when you threaten to take away their goonVR 4k UltraBBC feasibility porn, opiates/uppers/downers, HFCS goyslop, v8 pickup trucks, 24/7 exposure to screens and scrolling, dating apps, etc.
>NOOOOOO THIS IS AN OUTRAGE YOU CAN'T DO THIS NOO!!!!!!!!

>>106182189
>>106182222
Yeah it exposed him as a pseudofundementalist and makes it easy to be sympathetic to the mkultra v2k stuff.

Why i think trying to sail to the inner earth is a more viable strategy than cabin in the woods

>>106181409
Tedcels don't want analysis they want to use his own shitty ideas to gussy-up their idolization of a terrorist as something deeper than it is.
Ellul was actually smart and never killed anybody. They're not interested.

>>106182284
I do feel some sympathy for him because he got MKULTRA'd. If that hadn't happened to him, he'd have just been some Number Theory professor and nobody would have ever heard of him unless they just happened to like that area of math. But he is extremely overrated and romanticized to hell for no real reason. His writings are just Ellul rewritten with simpler language and a simpler understanding of the ideas. He's dumber Ellul, plus mail bombs. He didn't originate the ideas. He didn't extend the ideas. He didn't really call extra attention to the ideas. All he did was make a dangerous schizo the face of the ideas, which might've been his actual purpose.

>>106181323
Always have been

>>106182320
>never killed anybody
This is not a good thing

>>106181189 (OP)
Possibly, but writing was the original sin and this nigga wrote.

>>106181409
>>106182320
>read Ellul
fine, which books do you recommend? are they on z-lib?

>>106183387
for pleb

>>106181189 (OP)
Good.

>>106181189 (OP)
>Technology was a mistake.
Life was a mistake.

>>106182189
>when he saw a piece of nature near his cabin asphalted
He didn't give a shit about nature.