Industrial Society and Its Future

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Yes but there is nothing we can do about it.

Really too bad he had to kill people, he could have his own TV show now otherwise. His manifesto is so strangely accurate.

He mentions "The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer, and looking at its wiki page it's uncanny how much it lines up with the modern left and alt-right movements in america
To anyone that's read it, is it worth reading?

>If leftism ever becomes dominant in society, so that the technological system becomes a tool in the hands of leftists, they will enthusiastically use it and promote its growth. ...They will use it to oppress everyone else if they ever get it under their own control.
Well he wasn't wrong about this

No.

>>9862982
Don't worry, Neo-China will outcompete and destroy them.

Ted Kaczynski and Marshall McLuhan were the only thinkers of the latter 20th century who were right about anything.

>>9863591
>ellul

>>9863552
Neo-China is what Kaczynski was afraid of. Pure and soulless efficiency at the cost of humanity. But to be fair that's been pretty much the norm for all of Chinese history, if anybody's suited to the world of tomorrow it's them.

>>9863591
>>9863677
>Illich