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Ted Kaczynski vs. Technological Slavery
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NEW INTERVIEW with David Skrbina, PhD:
“We have to end the existing technological system!“
A professor of philosophy, Dr. Skrbina is the author of several books, including The Metaphysics of Technology (Routledge) and Panpsychism in the West (MIT Press). Technological Slavery, the collected writings of Ted Kaczynski, contains an Introduction by Skrbina as well as correspondence between Kaczynski and Skrbina. Professor Skrbina is also featured in the 2020 Netflix documentary, Unabomber – In His Own Words.
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5 comments
Greetings Mr. Midjord,
Great session.
Besides David Skrbina’s oeuvre, Friederich Junger’s The Failure of Technology: Perfection Without Purpose (whom Mr. Skrbina also mentions in his work) is a remarkable analysis. It came out more than 70 years ago but its observations seem more relevant today than they were three generations ago.
With reference to the East, certainly, there have been some negatives that have adversely affected social life.
However, the verticality of being in the shape of faith/metaphysics/spirit [Islam in our instance] is intact which acts as a shock absorber in case the horizontality of life [ethnocultural bonds] fraying in the face of technocratic devilry.
Regards,
Quite disappointing. Your questions were great but unfortunately Skrbina is a typical academic intellectual and thus unable to perceive or think outside of his modern, liberal worldview. That is also why he fundamentally misunderstands and misrepresents Kaczynskis most basic points about the nature of technology and what to do about it. It is also why the only solution he can think of is essentially the kind of globalism we are heading towards right know. There are no unique insights he has. I my opinion he does a great disservice to Kaczynskis ideas.
How does he misrepresent Kaczynski’s ideas?
I relistened to it and think that it was unfair to accuse him of misrepresenting Kaczynski. His own ideas diverge quite a bit but he never claims that these are Kaczynskis ideas.
One thing I’ll note however is that he said that Kaczynski doesn’t go into details and is only very vague on how an anti-tech revolution would look like. This is plainly false, Kaczynski wrote an entire book, “Anti-Tech Revolution Why and How” about this very topic where he goes into great detail on every aspect of a revolution like this. Not sure why Skrbina said this.
I agree, ATR: W&H is only necessarily vague but rather straightforward and explanatory of what is envisioned, and it provides adequate examples to be quite inspiring to any with a faith in the fruit of their labors; if we believe, we can achieve.
When people believe that revolution is possible, then in fact it becomes possible.