Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition
Logical, lucid, and direct, Technological Slavery radically reinvigorates and reforms the intellectual foundations of an age-old and resurgent world-view: "Progress" is a myth. Wild nature and humanity are fundamentally incompatible with technological growth. In Technological Slavery, Kaczynski argues that: (i) the unfolding human and environmental crises are the direct, inevitable result of technology itself; (ii) many of the stresses endured in contemporary life are not normal to the human condition, but unique to technological conditions; (iii) wilderness and human life close to nature are realistic and supreme ideals; and, (iv) a revolution to eliminate modern technology and attain these ideals is necessary and far more achievable than would first appear. Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, Kaczynski weaves together a set of visionary social theories to form a revolutionary perspective on the dynamics of history and the evolution of societies. The result is a comprehensive challenge to the fundamental values and assumptions of the modern technology-driven world, pinning the cause of the rapidly unfolding catastrophe on technology itself, while offering a realistic hope for ultimate recovery. Note: Theodore John Kaczynski does not receive any remuneration for this book.
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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition
Logical, lucid, and direct, Technological Slavery radically reinvigorates and reforms the intellectual foundations of an age-old and resurgent world-view: "Progress" is a myth. Wild nature and humanity are fundamentally incompatible with technological growth. In Technological Slavery, Kaczynski argues that: (i) the unfolding human and environmental crises are the direct, inevitable result of technology itself; (ii) many of the stresses endured in contemporary life are not normal to the human condition, but unique to technological conditions; (iii) wilderness and human life close to nature are realistic and supreme ideals; and, (iv) a revolution to eliminate modern technology and attain these ideals is necessary and far more achievable than would first appear. Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, Kaczynski weaves together a set of visionary social theories to form a revolutionary perspective on the dynamics of history and the evolution of societies. The result is a comprehensive challenge to the fundamental values and assumptions of the modern technology-driven world, pinning the cause of the rapidly unfolding catastrophe on technology itself, while offering a realistic hope for ultimate recovery. Note: Theodore John Kaczynski does not receive any remuneration for this book.
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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition

Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition

by Theodore John Kaczynski PhD
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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition

Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition

by Theodore John Kaczynski PhD

Overview

Logical, lucid, and direct, Technological Slavery radically reinvigorates and reforms the intellectual foundations of an age-old and resurgent world-view: "Progress" is a myth. Wild nature and humanity are fundamentally incompatible with technological growth. In Technological Slavery, Kaczynski argues that: (i) the unfolding human and environmental crises are the direct, inevitable result of technology itself; (ii) many of the stresses endured in contemporary life are not normal to the human condition, but unique to technological conditions; (iii) wilderness and human life close to nature are realistic and supreme ideals; and, (iv) a revolution to eliminate modern technology and attain these ideals is necessary and far more achievable than would first appear. Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, Kaczynski weaves together a set of visionary social theories to form a revolutionary perspective on the dynamics of history and the evolution of societies. The result is a comprehensive challenge to the fundamental values and assumptions of the modern technology-driven world, pinning the cause of the rapidly unfolding catastrophe on technology itself, while offering a realistic hope for ultimate recovery. Note: Theodore John Kaczynski does not receive any remuneration for this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781944228033
Publisher: Fitch & Madison Publishers, LLC
Publication date: 07/18/2022
Edition description: Fourth edition
Pages: 355
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Theodore John Kaczynski, Ph.D. (a.k.a. Ted Kaczynski) has focused his life’s work on sounding the alarm about society’s paramount problem: the omnipresent, subjugating, and destructive force of technological progress. His extensive writings articulate a comprehensive critique of the global “techno-industrial system” and forecast its catastrophic consequences for humankind and the biosphere. His recent works focus on realistic strategies for collective action to alter the current trajectory of society, and avoid unmitigated disaster. Dr. Kaczynski was born in 1942 in Evergreen Park, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Epigraph v

The epigraph is from Brutus's speech delivered to the Roman commonwealth in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2.

Preface to the First and Second Editions 1

Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition 9

Note on the Fourth Edition 15

Letter to Scientific American 19

Industrial Society and Its Future (ISAIF) 25

Postscript to ISAIF 113

The System's Neatest Trick 117

Extracts from Letters to David Skrbina 133

Letter to David Skrbina January 2, 2004 135

Letter to David Skrbina, August 29, 2004 135

Letter to David Skrbina, September 18, 2004 145

Letter to David Skrbina, October 12, 2004 151

Letter to David Skrbina, November 23, 2004 164

Letter to David Skrbina, January 3, 2005 182

Letter to David Skrbina, March 17, 2005 187

Letter to David Skrbina, April 5, 2005 207

Letter to David Skrbina, July 10, 2005 212

Notes to Letters to David Skrbina 215

Excerpts from Letters to a German 231

Extract from a Letter to A.O. 247

Extract from Letter to J.N. 253

Excerpts from Letter to M.K. 265

Letter to Dr. P.B. on the Motivations of Scientists 273

Appendix 1 On learned Helplessness 291

Appendix 2 Human Will Versus the "Objective" Forces of History 295

Appendix 3 Why Democracy is the Dominant Political Form of the Modern World 301

Appendix 4 Sarmiento and the Gauchos 311

Appendix 5 Disposal of Radioactive Waste 319

Appendix 6 Nations That Made a Conscious Decision to Adopt Democratic Government Usually Did So Because They Believed That Democracy Would Help Them to Achieve Economic and Technological Success 323

Appendix 7 Loyalty to the System Versus Loyalty to Traditional Social Groups: Some Examples Relevant to Paragraphs 57 & 52 of ISAIF 337

Appendix 8 In Support of the Letter to Dr. P.B. 341

List of Works Cited 345

Index 363

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