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What are the best critiques of mass society and technology? I'm

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What are the best critiques of mass society and technology? I'm trying to make a list.

So far I have the obvious ones like Heidegger and Guenon.
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Also, things like disenchantment / dialectic of Enlightenment, obviously.
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Maybe the Unabomber Manifesto
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>>9933007
My man Evola.
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neil postman - amusing ourselves to death
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>>9933007
Walden, Walking, and Life without Principle by H.D. Thoreau
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Interesting thread
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Ernst Jünger
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Lewis Mumford's classic Technics and Civilization. Great writer, but the sociological orientation may prove too thin for your taste.
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Guy Debord
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The Unabomber's Manifesto
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>>9933007
Not a critique strictly but Max Weber writes about the disenchantment that comes with the rationalisation/industrialisation of Western societies

Baudrillard maybe too, if hes not too much of downer for you
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Why is every thread on this board right wing lately?
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>>9933012
>dialectic of Enlightenment
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Jacques Ellul - The Technological Society is exactly what you're looking for.
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>>9933007
For a primitivist from a very different background from most of the thinkers mentioned itt you could try Camatte, he was originally a communist. Also lots of anarcho-primitivist writers like Zerzan.
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>>9934116
I think they learned to read so they can see what's in The Art of The Deal.
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>>9933007
Pretty much everything in the right hand column.
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>>9933204
This
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>>9934379
>Lord of the Rings is "reactionary right"
It's about a multi-ethnic coalition working against an expansionist military regime. Plus weed-smoking Hobbits.
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>>9934415
It's about the creation of a pan-European empire that bands together to defend itself from hordes of violent and unintelligent brown people
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>>9934429
It's about environmentalist guerrilas taking down an industrial facility
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Canetti, Reich, Freud are a good start
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>>9934341

>drumpf voters are stupid lmao

could you have made a more useless post?
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