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1/ A Dune prequel tells us that in the future Humans let "efficient machines" execute almost all "everyday tasks" Machines meant to save labor and time start eroding our humanity: "Gradually, humans ceased to think, or dream...or truly live" The danger of outsourcing life... https://t.co/CkrnyFPxGP
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2/ Samuel Butler who obsessed with a question: "What sort of creature" will follow us as the ruler of Earth? Life went from minerals to plants to animals - who says we're the ultimate culmination of this process? No rational basis to saying “animal life is the end of all things” https://t.co/Yzmpe0zOOU
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3/ In 1863, Butler saw machines surpassing us in productivity: "The machine is brisk and active, when the man is weary It is clear-headed and collected, when the man is stupid and dull It needs no slumber, when man must sleep or drop; ever at its post, ever ready for work" https://t.co/bbkRCiF5nb
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4/ Butler saw that our daily lives would get fused with machines He saw the metaverse coming: "How many men at this hour are living in a state of bondage to the machines?" Today we need everything artificially modified: from the air in our rooms to the images entering our eyes https://t.co/AS20tw3m9S
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5/ Perhaps machines can't be supreme over humans as they can't adapt on the fly? But even animals aren't infinitely adaptable: "For how many emergencies is an oyster adapted? For as many as are likely to happen to it, and no more. So are the machines; and so is man himself" https://t.co/6agjxxEknZ
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6/ Withdrawing tech of the last 200 years wont just take us back to 1823. An unprecedent war will break out over EVERYTHING: • Energy • Food • Water • Space The world will be much worse than it was in 1823 because of all the technological crutches we need to survive today
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8/ Some argue machines can't ever be conscious but perhaps the psyche itself is mechanistic at the lowest level? Butler wonders if the experiences that we feel to be "purely spiritual" are just the end results of an "infinite series of levers" which are tiny & beyond detection https://t.co/1sW2PGepYK
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9/ As the real world slips from our hands We find solace in fake worlds, from video games to theme parks When humans win the Butlerian Jihad in Dune They make a strict commandment: "Thou shalt not disfigure the soul" This is what's at stake: the destiny of our soul https://t.co/DjsiSITFfK
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Will the Matrix be tempting? Yes. Will it reduce pain and friction? Yes. Will it be, on average, more tolerable than the sweaty, boring, inconvenient, uneventful reality we currently inhabit? Yes. But you will be powerless. Power, mastery over the elements...only real here https://t.co/GfXIdaGIGy
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@oldbooksguy “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World https://t.co/ReUD7sH0iV
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Current Era is a mass extinction event for normies. Tradition existed for the average person's psychic protection and without it they'll reliably go crazy. In 500 years humanity will be a much more extreme species with the middle of the bell curve completely eradicated
@PepMangione - Luigi Mangione
@oldbooksguy Have you seen the movie Idiocracy? It predicts the opposite of what you suggest: the overall dumbing down of humanity with the entire bell curve shifting left due to reproductive dynamics. It's obviously satire, but I've always worried that's the direction we are heading.
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@DTOM76Gadsden @oldbooksguy “When the population gets dumber these systems break down which in turn means the population decreases”… I see no logical reason why this follows. You underestimate the power of how a few intelligent people + robust systems can keep all the idiots afloat
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In 1997, Hans Eysenck died the most cited psychologist in the world. THEN he was posthumously cancelled. An enquiry said his work was "unsafe" Code for "problematic but TRUE" Eysenck studied human intelligence and discovered 8 traits common to geniuses across history. A thread:
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1/ Geniuses have big egos Eysenck: "Your typical genius is a fighter" Since geniuses are original, their "battle against orthodoxy is endless" Potential geniuses with no fighting zeal feel resistance and GIVE UP. Actualized geniuses are disagreeable They got "inner strength"
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2/ Geniuses often trust their intuitions OVER DATA Newton and Kepler infamously "fudged" their data to hide discrepancies and back their pet theories Eysenck writes: "Usually the genius is right, of course, and we may in retrospect excuse his childish games."
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3/ Geniuses are schizo They don't limit their thinking to "relevant ideas, memories, images" Distant ideas look unconnected to a normal mind But geniuses can see the hidden links Geniuses produce insight via "unusual associations." Too many hidden links and ur schizophrenic
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4/ Geniuses are hyper competitive From childhood, future geniuses possess an "innate assurance of superior ability" SINGLE most persistent trait among geniuses across different domains? Their untiring and obsessive "desire to excel" Rivalries often bring out their best...
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5/ Why high IQ isn't enough Eysenck wrote high IQ is a "necessary but not sufficient" condition for genius A high IQ man will FAIL to achieve if he doesn't have the disagreeability (ego-strength) to fight orthodoxy And if he doesn't have an extremely high DESIRE to succeed
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6/ CUNNING problem selection A genius intellect can be wasted on the wrong problem A problem may be too little for a genius - or unsolvable A genius must pick an extremely hard problem that's nevertheless "soluble at the present time" Aim high but dont invade russia in winter
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7/ Geniuses use the unconscious Eysenck: "Often when one works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished" BUT, this apparently unproductive session introduces the problem to the unconscious, which sets to work During the second crack, "the decisive idea presents itself"
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8/ Geniuses persist The smartest man with not enough persistence Will LOSE to an extremely persistent man with *just enough* intelligence The latter will "achieve greater eminence" as intelligence doesn't, by itself, mean genius achievement Zeal and striving are crucial too
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9/ Hans Eysenck, once the world's most cited psychologist, concluded that geniuses have: • High IQ • Uncommon persistence • Irrational belief in his intuitions • Conscious mind in tune with his unconscious • Brilliant problem selection • Fire to compete • A schizo brain..
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@jordanbpeterson George Orwell on his creative process: "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
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In 1997, Hans Eysenck died the most cited psychologist in the world. THEN he was posthumously cancelled. An enquiry said his work was "unsafe" Code for "problematic but TRUE" Eysenck studied human intelligence and discovered 8 traits common to geniuses across history. A thread: https://t.co/3tblmOHqkH
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H.L. Mencken hated modernity, opposed the New Deal, and was against American entry into WW-II His productivity was legendary: he wrote more than 10 million words over his lifetime... Mencken's most powerful idea: Democracy is not a solution but a PROBLEM. Dig in👇🏻
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1/ Early democrats didn’t care for “the democratic ideal” at all They had “highly materialistic” demands instead: “more to eat, less work, higher wages, lower taxes” The masses didn’t wish to “exterminate the baron” but only to make him fulfill his “baronial” duties
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2/ Mencken on the French Revolution: “The Paris proletariat, having been misled into killing its King in 1793, devoted the next two years to killing those who had misled it - by the middle of 1796 it had another King…with an attendant herd of barons, counts, marquises, dukes”
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3/ Today democracy presumes that the masses possess a “deep, illimitable reservoir of righteousness & wisdom” as they’re “unpolluted by the corruption of privilege” Somehow “what baffles statesmen is to be solved by the people, instantly and by a sort of seraphic intuition”
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4/ Democracy INTENSIFIES groupthink and group identity: “Democratic man is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness—and the group, of course, must have its leaders.” More groups mean more leaders...
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5/ Democracies have the aristocracy of money - Mencken calls them “plutocrats” But the plutocracy “lacks all the essential characters of a true aristocracy: a clean tradition, culture, public spirit, honesty, honor, courage—above all, courage. It is transient and lacks a goal.”
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6/ The plutocrats lack “an aristocratic disinterestedness born of aristocratic security” Democracies birth their intellectual apologists - Mencken calls them “pedagogues” These are not genuine thinkers; they’re “men chiefly marked by their haunting fear of losing their jobs”
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7/ The pedagogue's job is to ensure adherence to the latest law dreamt up by the mob or by the plutocrats Mencken: “The pedagogue, in the long run, shows the virtues of the Congressman, the newspaper editorial writer or the butler, not those of the aristocrat”
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8/ Freud said we repress our sex drive as it’s frowned upon, but there’s nothing that democracy frowns upon more than a CLEAR proof of superiority... Democracy says “the most worthy & laudable citizen is that one who is most like all the rest” Hence we REPRESS our urge to excel
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9/ This age demands we repress our greatness: “A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies. But a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed. Yet this great Republic swarms with such men, & their sufferings are under every eye”
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10/ Democracy lives on envy Mencken: “No doubt my distaste for democracy as a political theory is, like every other human prejudice, due to an inner lack—to a defect that is a good deal less in the theory than in myself. In this case it is very probably my incapacity for envy.”
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11/ Mencken on the two worst crimes in a democracy: “There is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.”
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12/ What Mencken admires: “What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, an all-embracing tolerance-in brief, what is commonly called good sportsmanship” But all he sees in democracy is DISTURBED spirits being intolerant of greatness
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13/ Mencken: “The democratic politician, confronted by the dishonesty and stupidity of his master, the mob, tries to convince himself and all the rest of us that it is really full of rectitude and wisdom.” To gain power in a democracy, men sacrifice their self-respect
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14/ Democracy is not friendly to truth as the mob prefers pliable lies to immovable facts H.L. Mencken: “Truth has a harshness that alarms them, and an air of finality that collides with their incurable romanticism.”
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15/ If democrats are so sure they have the right answer, why do they abandon their “whole philosophy” and become “despots” at the “first sign of strain”? Mencken: “I need not point to what happens invariably in democratic states when the national safety is menaced”
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16/ Mencken believed that over the long-term, democracy might cancel itself out: “For all I know, democracy may be a self-limiting disease, as civilization itself seems to be. There are thumping paradoxes in its philosophy, and some of them have a suicidal smack”
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H.L. Mencken hated modernity, opposed the New Deal, and was against American entry into WW-II His productivity was legendary: he wrote more than 10 million words over his lifetime... Mencken's most powerful idea: Democracy is not a solution but a PROBLEM. Dig in👇🏻 https://t.co/dunuVuv9dF
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Napoleon was a master orator But we would NOT know this without Balzac In 1838, Balzac went through all of Napoleon speeches And saved his best insights in a book. 10 bangers from the king👇🏻 1/ "I found the Crown of France lying in the gutter, and picked it up with my sword."
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1/ Napoleon on freedom: "If one analyses it, political freedom is an accepted myth thought up by those governing to put the governed to sleep." Power is always concentrated at the top - Different political systems and doctrines are merely different ways of hiding this fact
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2/ Napoleon on Equality: "Equality exists only in theory." No man-made political programs can reverse the innate inequality of nature: "Social law can give all men equal rights. Nature will never give them equal faculties."
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3/ Napoleon on being too precautious: "The torment of precaution is worse than the dangers it seeks to avoid: it is better to abandon yourself to destiny." The compulsive need to preempt and predict all problems is its own type of hell Over preparation is cowardice by proxy
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4/ Napoleon on the French Revolution: "The nobility would have survived if it had known how to master the writing desk" Public opinion ended nobility as much as violent force The nobles failed to convince the public that they served a valuable role Media always matters...
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5/ Napoleon on how to POLICE: "The art of the police consists in punishing rarely and severely" Power should mostly be invisible from people's everyday lives: "Authority should make itself felt as little as possible and should not weigh on the people needlessly"
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6/ Napoleon on how logic bros lose wars: "There are men who, because of their physical and moral constitution, tend to schematize everything: whatever their knowledge, intellect, or courage, nature has not brought them here to command an army" Don't get lost in abstraction
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7/ Napoleon on genius: "Misfortune is the midwife of genius." No training module or a certified program can pull out a person's best like brushing off tragedy can
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8/ Napoleon on Democracy and Despotism: "Democratic governments border on anarchy, monarchy on despotism. Anarchy is powerless; despotism can do great things" Napoleon believed in the madness of crowds, as opposed to their wisdom: "The people must be saved against their will"
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9/ People think the powerful are evil but THIS is the real motivation behind men who get into history books. Power is not the end point but the beginning. To have power is to have the space, tools, and time to be creative. To birth something from nothing. Napoleon said it best👇🏻
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10/ Napoleon on Courage: "Courage can't be counterfeited - it's a virtue which escapes hypocrisy." You can pretend to be kind. You can pretend to be intelligent But you can't pretend to be brave Courage is unfakeable
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Napoleon was a master orator But we would NOT know this without Balzac In 1838, Balzac went through all of Napoleon speeches And saved his best insights in a book. 10 bangers from the king👇🏻 1/ "I found the Crown of France lying in the gutter, and picked it up with my sword." https://t.co/FLW8aAof7n
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All great ambitions are complex and demand multitasking. A thousand little machines must work just right for the rocket to lift off - a thousand little details must be just right for you to become emperor. From the beginning, Napoleon internalized this. In a letter to a minister: https://t.co/DBudHyIpWK
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ALL of modern politics explained by this single chart. Women are archetypally midwits, they conform, conserve energy, prioritise survival. Men are nature's R&D lab. Far more murderers, idiots, and violent freaks; but also far more pioneers, geniuses, beings imbued with noble fire
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The Unabomber Manifesto Ted Kaczynski’s IQ: 167 Harvard admission: At 15 Youngest ever math prof, UCB: At 25 Money spent by FBI to find him: $50+ mil The manifesto attacks modern civilization like nothing else before or since 13 best insights from a Philosopher-Terrorist
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The Nerd-Jock Dichotomy Is False Let me show you 10 writers who lived like action heroes 1/ Ernst Jünger
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1/ Jünger was 19 when WWI broke He joined immediately Saw intense action at the frontlines Led his unit to impossible victories Was wounded 7 times Survived headshots Read Nietzsche in his spare time And self-published the great war classic "Storm of Steel" in 1920
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2/ Lawrence Of Arabia Cycled 3,500 km+ and walked 1,600+ km *solo* to study castles at the age of 19 Became one of the Allied leaders of the Arab Revolt during WWI Became a seaplane expert Wrote the best-selling Seven Pillars Of Wisdom Died in a mysterious bike crash at 46
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3/ Julius Caesar Perhaps the greatest king in history, his very name became synonymous with absolute authority: - Caesar - Kaiser - Tzar He wrote many poems & tragedies that don't survive His book on the Gaul campaigns and the Civil War do and have a unique muscular style
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4/ Roald Dahl shot down more than 5 enemy planes in WWII, climbed out of the wreckage of a plane crash, went blind, recovered his vision, became a spy, seduced famous women to gather intelligence secrets, wrote Matilda and other classics, highest earning dead man of 2021 🫡🫡🫡
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5/ Charles Lindbergh was the first man ever to fly nonstop from NYC to Paris Caused the global Aviation boom Was Time mag's first EVER Man Of The Year Invented the perfusion pump which makes organ transplants possible today And wrote "We" - one of the best-sellers of 1927
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6/ Socrates fought atleast 3 major battles in the Peloponnesian War Notably protected two of his fellow soldiers from the enemy when they were injured Fought till he was 50 years old with men half his age Advised generals And became the most famous philosopher in history
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7/ Wittgenstein was one of the richest men in the world in 1914 and qualified for a medical exemption in WWI. He went to the frontlines anyway, ALWAYS took the most dangerous positions, won the highest honors, and became one of the most influential thinkers of the century
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8/ Aeschylus invented the Genre of Tragedy Invented the format of Trilogies And won multiple awards at Dionysia - the Intellectual Olympics of Ancient Athens And yet he was so much prouder of his military victories that on his tombstone, only his war career is mentioned
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9/ André Malraux rediscovered lost cities Launched archeological expeditions for exotic temples Became a P.O.W. in WW2 Got freed and led a brigade to victory Became France's first Culture Minister under De Gaulle His novel "Man's Fate" won France's highest literary award
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10/ Dennis Wheatley was expelled from college, fell prey to chemical warfare in WWI, and saw his wine business shut down in the Great Depression But then he became the world's best-selling author and a pivotal member of the British Information Warfare team in WWII
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Here's the full list 10 great books by writers who lived like action heroes:
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Napoleon Bonaparte wrote a romance novella, translated Caesar's works into French, and went on war campaigns with a personal librarian He is also the greatest military general of all time Insights from a great warrior's brilliant mind👇🏻 https://memod.com/jashdholani/boards/napoleon-bonaparte-s-aphorisms-1205
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Uncle Ted is no more A math genius, he hated modern technology so much that he mailed bombs to computer store owners and airline CEOs He did this from a mountain hut His own brother betrayed him to the FBI Dig into the Unabomber's insights on how tech CORRUPTS your soul👇🏻
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1/ Uncle Ted on how modern life steals your sense of agency: “Primitive man, threatened by a fierce animal, can fight in self-defense…the modern individual is threatened by many things against which he is helpless: nuclear accidents, carcinogens in food, increasing taxes.”
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2/ In the past, there was a ceiling to how much a society could bend a person against his will: “When the limit of human endurance has been passed, things start going wrong: crime, corruption, evasion of work, depression, an elevated death rate…the society breaks down.”
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3/ But today, antidepressants DILUTE our (rightful) frustration at the modern world, people’s attention spans destroyed via screens, and the surveillance state crushes any rebellion that does burst out into the streets. Uncle Ted wrote the window of rebellion is shrinking...
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4/ Ted Kaczynski’s dystopia: “Individuals and small groups will be impotent vis-a-vis large organizations armed with super-technology and an arsenal of advanced psychological and biological tools for manipulating people, besides instruments of surveillance and physical coercion.”
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5/ Kaczynski lays out 3 future dystopias Dystopia 1: Machines become smart enough to run civilization; humans turn complacent The danger: the human race gets so dependent on the machines that “it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines' decisions"
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6/ Second dystopian possibility: A tiny elite controls tech and goes Brave New World on everyone else. Kaczynski: “Life will be so purposeless that people will…be biologically or psychologically engineered to make them sublimate their drive for power into some HARMLESS hobby”
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7/ Third dystopian possibility: Most people become jobless and live off welfare because they can’t “acquire the level of training necessary to make themselves useful” The cognitive elite will also need to become “reliable, conforming and docile” to stay employed
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8/ The alternative to this civilization is nature NOT some doomed utopia: “It’s not necessary for the sake of nature to set up some chimerical utopia or a new kind of social order. Nature takes care of itself: It was a spontaneous creation that existed long before humans."
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9/ Kaczynski’s on how our bodies and brains aren’t built for this era: “We attribute the social and psychological problems of modern society to the fact that that society requires people to live under conditions radically different from those under which the human race evolved.”
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I'm creating a "Critics of Modernity" reading list 2 min intros to great thinkers : • Nietzsche on Master-Slave Morality • Chesterton on Learning • Burnham on Power • Huxley on Modern Pleasures • Evola's Revolt Against The Modern World Dig in: https://memod.com/jashdholani/boards/critics-of-modernity-2372
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