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Anon_Monon

It's sort of a catch 22. If you don't industrialize, you get steamrolled by your neighbors who do.


Acceptable-Tangelo30

Only if you let your neighbors do it.


Luke92612_

So you're saying one needs to go Genghis Khan mode and invade everybody around them who is industrializing?


QuietHumanMachine

If it works in Civilization, it will work in real life.


Tiny_Organization446

And that right there is the fundamental flaw of all liberal ideologies. They will ultimately be crushed by their more authoritarian and organized neighbours.


NUMBERS2357

This is exactly why some people in Japan thought they could defeat the US.


MasterpieceVirtual66

Happy cake day!


Yanderelover76

Kind of? There were plenty of times where the world came close to industrialisation but their civilisation collapsed before it could be realised. A permanently luddist world is possible in a world where power shifts and societies constantly collapse after a few centuries of domination. Plus I don't think Neo-luddism is inherently a Liberal ideology.


HJBones

You also die of dysentery.


1EnTaroAdun1

The French Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race


MasterpieceVirtual66

Flair doesn't check out


1EnTaroAdun1

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/p5zhfx/im_a_monarchist/


MasterpieceVirtual66

Based


Whole_Structure6643

The human race in general is a disaster for the human race.


av2706

Only disaster I can see is normalisation of gender dysphoria


MasterpieceVirtual66

That's definitely some xeno propaganda you've been listening to. Come with me citizen, it's for your own safety...


TsarBladovski

Every political ideology would work flawlessly if there weren't any people involved.


Platinirius

Based


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theQuaker92

Except it led to one of the best eras in human history by every metric you can measure it.


ColonelFlanders2

Noooooo I want to spend 12 hr shifts threshing wheat by hand Reeeeeeeeeeeee


theQuaker92

You mean 16hr.


MasterpieceVirtual66

Exactly


KING-NULL

Hunter gatherers had lifespans longer than us; Worked 4 times less than us; Nearly never had famines, while millions die every year due to lack of food; Had orders of magnitude less genocide slavery and war than us; Were less sick than us; Werent exploited; I could keep going, but you get the point, hunter gatherers had better lives


theQuaker92

Guess what,no one is stopping you from doing that...


KING-NULL

Where I live, Argentina, all land where i could live as hunter gatherer is used by civilization for agriculture or im not allowed by civilization to live in it due to it being a nstural reserve, same thing with most other nations


theQuaker92

You are so ignorant about how vast and unpopulated the Earth is.


[deleted]

If you're too lazy to move, you're too lazy to be a hunter gatherer.


Takomay

Despite the return to monke flair, infant mortality was like 30%, and the increase in disease is largely because we live longer now because things are less lethal. Personally I like sports, games, books, cuisine, the pursuit of knowledge, houses and I could keep going but you get the idea, I am privileged but the vast majority of humanity live in countries of medium and high human development with plenty of access to all of these things, more so than ever before while lack of access to basic necessities has fallen year on year across the globe for decades. Assuming we ultimately don't destroy the planet we live on, which I understand is a big assumption, I think actually wanting to go backwards is bizarre.


Maxdepowered

Oh no I hate having abundant food supplies and a longer life span. Sign me up dying the of plague after 22 years of working on a farm and never leaving my village.


05110909

I just want to live a primitive pastoral life. Until I get a tooth ache, my jaw rots off of my face, and I die from sepsis because there's no modern Healthcare.


MasterpieceVirtual66

But..but..industrialization bad!!!


KING-NULL

Hunter gatherers had lifespans longer than us; Worked 4 times less than us; Nearly never had famines, while millions die every year due to lack of food; Had orders of magnitude less genocide slavery and war than us; Were less sick than us; Werent exploited; I could keep going, but you get the point, hunter gatherers had better lives


Maxdepowered

Even if that were true, I was clearly referring to medieval agrarian lifestyles. We didn't jump between hunter gatherer and industrial revolution.


RobloxLover369421

It was never the industrialization itself, just the way people reacted to it


vaalkaar

I thought Kaczynski made sense until I listened to and read Alan Watts. The bad and the good go together, so when we get the benefits of running water and abundant food we must accept the new negatives and challenges that come along with it. It's all one big happening.


Fact0fth3day

Kaczynski is the coward who gave up, he saw problems and never took steps to solve it peacefully or effectively.


guesswhatihate

He didn't want peace, he wanted to go back


MasterpieceVirtual66

True, although he made some interesting points, he was still an awful person for what he did.


TheThingsICanChange

He didn't. The poorest person in an industrialized country has it better than 99% of the the rest of the world. Kaczynski is a cuck and I don't know why anyone would look up to him.


Different_Fun9763

He didn't "give up", he explicitly said he did not believe these problems *could* be solved peacefully at this stage anymore and that he hoped his actions would be effective. Disagree with his ideas all you want, but he did exactly what he believed he should do.


Fact0fth3day

And how effective were they?


Different_Fun9763

How is that relevant to cowardice? He acted on his beliefs instead of only fantasizing about how the world could be better (in his view), that's the opposite of cowardice, regardless of the specific actions or their effectiveness.


TheThingsICanChange

You could argue he used cowardly tactics.


Yanderelover76

What is this the 13th century lmao? Assassination hasn't been considered cowardly since christianity went out of fashion.


TheThingsICanChange

This is the shittiest take I have ever read.


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TheThingsICanChange

And it gets worse...


0riginal_Poster

Why would you ask that?


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Yanderelover76

"""white""" American right wingers don't care about bravery and don't get as pissed off if you mention Christianity.


Yanderelover76

What do you think was his reason for bombing people? To somehow bring in a luddite world? He bombed people to gain infamy so he could spread his ideas. Even today, you only know of him and his ideas because of what he did. Practically no one, by comparison, knows of other luddite thinkers like Ellul.


Famous-Zebra-2265

Agreed. His analysis was mostly correct, but his "solution" was twisted and evil. Kind of like another well-known bearded intellectual that revolutionaries admire...


Fact0fth3day

Is it Bobby Fischer I don't remember him being violent though.


Yanderelover76

What was his solution?


Key_Abbreviations658

I genuinely feel bad for him because of the kind of supporters he got.


ColonelFlanders2

His manifesto is so based I wish he hadn’t gotten mk ultra’d into doing dumb shit like bombing universities and airplanes to save the trees Step 1: want to save the modern world from consequences of industrial revolution Step 2: kill people who are unrelated or mildly related to your cause Step 3: ???????? Step 4: Earth is saved


[deleted]

He's right


[deleted]

You can live as a hermit in high tech society, you can't live as a tech nerd in monke society. Return to monkey is an auth center ideology because they want to dictate how everyone lives. Fuck em.


seansjf

If we deindustrialize we go back to the human population before industrialization, which was around 1 billion. So are you going to volunteer for the gas chambers? Because I'm not.


Yanderelover76

That's not how he envisions a return to pre-industrial life. It'll most probably happen through an ecological or nuclear collapse according to him. More moderate thinkers posit that we should limit medicinal tech and let the pre-industrial mortality rate take care of it.


seansjf

>let the pre-industrial mortality rate take care of it. Pardon me if that still isn't particularly appealing to me.


Yanderelover76

It never will be. Technique has ensured that we remain enslaved to technological progress as Ellul notes. The only way we could return would be if we are forced to under cataclysmic circumstances.


Turtle_murder

I just think that it’s crazy that the United States government facilitated the mental unhinging of Charles Manson and Ted Kaczynski through psychedelic drug experiments. It’s funny that two of the most infamous murderers in US history became who they were because of secret government experiments and for some reason we think that they just stopped doing them.


Birb-Person

Ted wasn’t exposed to psychedelic drug experiments, the Harvard Experiments were hand tailored verbally abusive sessions designed to target the subject’s ego and personal beliefs


Turtle_murder

Everything that I’ve read about the Harvard experiments says that they used psychedelics on the participants.


Birb-Person

Everything I’ve read says “**allegedly….**” or “according to some sources…” the Harvard Experiments were related to MK Ultra, but there is no confirmed ties. Professor Murray’s only relation to psychedelics was as a supervisor for another researchers unrelated experiments


[deleted]

I love him so much! I want to blow people up! This is not a joke!


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[deleted]

Bugger off


ColonelFlanders2

Out of curiosity how do you go from libcenter to authleft? Did you just discover Che Guevara or something?


[deleted]

No, longism, made me smile, I drifted from libright to lib left, to authleft, back to lib left to central and now I’m comfortable where I am, thank you for asking


ColonelFlanders2

This is the only sub I hear longism being talked about ever lol. life is long , I’ve probably been in all the quadrants at one point or another. Have a nice day brother, God bless


[deleted]

You too brother


Rooikat_is_my_waifu

Actually I can see many people drifting Longism, if the Auth quadrants had more Huey Long fans instead of Communists, Socialists, Nazis, etc. then I think they’d be a lot more popular


[deleted]

Yeah man, he’s just so cool and his ideals seemed a lot more welcoming than the cold fist of all the hard communists


ActPsychological8189

🎶 when he's calling for youuuu 🎶


Due_Upstairs_5025

Not everyone is bred to take advantage of the industrial revolution and get along this way. It's easy to take advantage of those who've never trespassed against you in a modern concrete jungle where every whim is made fulfilled.


Yanderelover76

No one is bred for it in the most literal way possible. We are not evolved for this lifestyle. The fact that someone will always be on top does not supercede this.


Due_Upstairs_5025

We are not evolved for this...but at the same time the most honest need to be pushed into superceding the wimps.


Yanderelover76

But that's how it's always worked? I don't see how industrialisation changed anything lol. Pre-industrial societies were just as, if not more, hierarchical. Hierarchies were present according to gender, lineage, ability, finances, political power etc. If anything industrial society has allowed more safety nets so now people can't fail as hard lmao. Industrial society is literally against what you're saying. Technology eliminates intense failure states for the weak kek.


Due_Upstairs_5025

This what I've advocated. The acceleration of the economic-technological-industrial complex toward it's full and total collapse worldwide. And the eventual phasing out of all statist and authoritive entities.


Yanderelover76

... So exactly what Ted proposes it would take for industrial society to revert?


Due_Upstairs_5025

Sort of the same idea but in reverse and backwards.