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"We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature."
-Henry David Thoreau
-Henry David Thoreau
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Forwarded from TED TALK๐ฒ (Aะฝัะพะฝะธะพ)
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Typical people are not like us. They need the influence and dependance on others to even remotely comprehend why things are the way they are. The difference is that people like us have always had this nagging feeling at the back of the head telling us that something is terribly wrong. That feeling has always felt very natural and familiar to us.
I walk through populated urban areas with pure disgust on my face. It feels repulsive and unnatural. People who have never experienced this before will never truly understand what it is like.
Typical people need guidance, but we must come to the terms and accept that we are different and we have always been different.
I walk through populated urban areas with pure disgust on my face. It feels repulsive and unnatural. People who have never experienced this before will never truly understand what it is like.
Typical people need guidance, but we must come to the terms and accept that we are different and we have always been different.
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"There is no law that says we have to go to work every day and follow our employerโs orders. Legally there is nothing to prevent us from going to live in the wild like primitive people or from going into business for ourselves. But in practice there is very little wild country left, and there is room in the economy for only a limited number of small business owners. Hence most of us can survive only as someone elseโs employee."
- Theodore John Kaczynski | Industrial Society and Its Future
- Theodore John Kaczynski | Industrial Society and Its Future
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๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ข๐ญ. ๐
๐๐ซ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ, ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ-๐๐๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐ ๐จ๐๐ฅ, ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ ๐, ๐๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐.
"I suggest that one of the biggest mistakes modern American revolutionaries make is that, in the name of "tolerance," they let anyone and everyone of a vaguely rebellious disposition join their movements. The result is that they get diluted, or even swamped, by large numbers of make-believe revolutionaries for whom rebellion is only a game. Even if it sounds "intolerant," revolutionaries must form a movement that is exclusive to the extent that it incorporates none but real revolutionaries. Only in this way can the movement have cohesion and the capacity for vigorous action".
- Theodore John Kaczynski | 29-11-1998 Letter to John Zerzan (Considered founder of Anarcho-Primivitism)
"I suggest that one of the biggest mistakes modern American revolutionaries make is that, in the name of "tolerance," they let anyone and everyone of a vaguely rebellious disposition join their movements. The result is that they get diluted, or even swamped, by large numbers of make-believe revolutionaries for whom rebellion is only a game. Even if it sounds "intolerant," revolutionaries must form a movement that is exclusive to the extent that it incorporates none but real revolutionaries. Only in this way can the movement have cohesion and the capacity for vigorous action".
- Theodore John Kaczynski | 29-11-1998 Letter to John Zerzan (Considered founder of Anarcho-Primivitism)
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๐๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ
"A revolutionary movement must have courage. A revolution in the modern world will be no dinner party. It will be deadly and brutal. You can be sure that when the technoindustrial system begins to break down, the result will not be the sudden conversion of the entire human race into flower children. Instead, various groups will compete for power. If the opponents of technology prove toughest, they will be able to assure that the breakdown of the technosystem becomes complete and final. If other groups prove tougher, they may be able to salvage the technosystem and get it running again. Thus, an effective revolutionary movement must consist of people who are willing to pay the price that a real revolution demands: They must be ready to face disaster, suffering, and death".
- Theodore John Kaczynski | Road to Revolution
"A revolutionary movement must have courage. A revolution in the modern world will be no dinner party. It will be deadly and brutal. You can be sure that when the technoindustrial system begins to break down, the result will not be the sudden conversion of the entire human race into flower children. Instead, various groups will compete for power. If the opponents of technology prove toughest, they will be able to assure that the breakdown of the technosystem becomes complete and final. If other groups prove tougher, they may be able to salvage the technosystem and get it running again. Thus, an effective revolutionary movement must consist of people who are willing to pay the price that a real revolution demands: They must be ready to face disaster, suffering, and death".
- Theodore John Kaczynski | Road to Revolution
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"In living close to nature, one discovers that happiness does not consist in maximizing pleasure. It consists in tranquility. Once you have enjoyed tranquility long enough, you acquire actually an aversion to the thought of any very strong pleasure - excessive pleasure would disrupt your tranquility. One also learns that boredom is a disease of civilization. It seems to me that what boredom mostly is is that people have to keep themselves entertained or occupied, because if they arenโt, then certain anxieties, frustrations, discontents, and so forth, start coming to the surface, and it makes them uncomfortable. Boredom is almost nonexistent once youโve become adapted to life in the woods. If you donโt have any work that needs to be done, you can sit for hours at a time just doing nothing, just listening to the birds or the wind or the silence, watching the shadows move as the sun travels, or simply looking at familiar objects. And you donโt get bored. Youโre just at peace."
- Theodore John Kaczynski
- Theodore John Kaczynski
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New technologies often appear optional when first introduced, but eventually society restructures itself in such a way that these technologies become necessary just to survive. Take the internet for example, it would be almost impossible to get by without using the internet. Even if one completely eliminates internet usage in his personal life, most jobs still require internet usage. There is simply no way of getting around the internet. The same would apply for transhumanism. Likely even moreso, since the changes brought by transhumanism are even greater than those which were brought by the internet. Even if in the highly unlikely scenario that transhumanism was optional, due to it increasing the efficiency of the human by such a large magnitude, individuals who embraced transhumanism will be propagandized as superior, with those remaining in their natural forms socially ostracized. We see this today as those without the newest belongings, especially those that are technological, as less than others.
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"Force and violence are the ultimate sanction. When a major social conflict cannot be resolved through compromise, the issue is settled by physical force or the threat of it. As I argued in 'Industrial Society and Its Future', if we try to compromise with technology we play a losing game. The system never is and never will be satisfied with any stable situation - it seeks always to expand its power and will never permanently tolerate anything that remains outside of its control. Thus the conflict between us and the system is irreconcilable and in the end can be resolved only through physical force".
- Theodore John Kaczynski | In Defense of Violence
- Theodore John Kaczynski | In Defense of Violence
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Rest In Peace Chris Mccandless๐ฒ
18th August 1992๐ฅ
"Do not hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. You will be very glad that you did".
- Alexander Supertramp aka
Chris Mccandless
18th August 1992๐ฅ
"Do not hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. You will be very glad that you did".
- Alexander Supertramp aka
Chris Mccandless
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๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฆ'๐ฌ ๐ง๐๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ค ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐ญ
"The System needs an orderly, docile, cooperative, passive, dependent population. Above all it requires a nonviolent population, since it needs the government to have a monopoly on the use of physical force. For this reason, integration propaganda has to teach us to be horrified, frightened, and appalled by violence, so that we will not be tempted to use it even when we are very angry. (By "violence" I mean physical attacks on human beings.) More generally, integration propaganda has to teach us soft, cuddly values that emphasize nonaggressiveness, interdependence, and cooperation.
On the other hand, in certain contexts the System itself finds it useful or necessary to resort to brutal, aggressive methods to achieve its own objectives. The most obvious example of such methods is warfare. In wartime the System relies on agitation propaganda: In order to win public approval of military action, it plays on people's emotions to make them feel frightened and angry at their real or supposed enemy.
In this situation there is a conflict between integration propaganda and agitation propaganda. Those people in whom the cuddly values and the aversion to violence have been most deeply planted can't easily be persuaded to approve a bloody military operation.
Here the System's trick backfires to some extent. The activists, who have been "rebelling" all along in favor of the values of integration propaganda, continue to do so during wartime. They oppose the war effort not only because it is violent but because it is "racist," "colonialist," "imperialist," etc., all of which are contrary to the soft, cuddly values taught by integration propaganda".
- Theodore John Kaczynski | The System's neatest trick (Technological Slavery, Volume 1)
https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-system-s-neatest-trick
"The System needs an orderly, docile, cooperative, passive, dependent population. Above all it requires a nonviolent population, since it needs the government to have a monopoly on the use of physical force. For this reason, integration propaganda has to teach us to be horrified, frightened, and appalled by violence, so that we will not be tempted to use it even when we are very angry. (By "violence" I mean physical attacks on human beings.) More generally, integration propaganda has to teach us soft, cuddly values that emphasize nonaggressiveness, interdependence, and cooperation.
On the other hand, in certain contexts the System itself finds it useful or necessary to resort to brutal, aggressive methods to achieve its own objectives. The most obvious example of such methods is warfare. In wartime the System relies on agitation propaganda: In order to win public approval of military action, it plays on people's emotions to make them feel frightened and angry at their real or supposed enemy.
In this situation there is a conflict between integration propaganda and agitation propaganda. Those people in whom the cuddly values and the aversion to violence have been most deeply planted can't easily be persuaded to approve a bloody military operation.
Here the System's trick backfires to some extent. The activists, who have been "rebelling" all along in favor of the values of integration propaganda, continue to do so during wartime. They oppose the war effort not only because it is violent but because it is "racist," "colonialist," "imperialist," etc., all of which are contrary to the soft, cuddly values taught by integration propaganda".
- Theodore John Kaczynski | The System's neatest trick (Technological Slavery, Volume 1)
https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/the-system-s-neatest-trick
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The system must collapse sooner rather than later so that much of the biosphere can be saved, whereas if it were to collapse later there will not be anything left of the biosphere to support life on earth.
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"Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While itโs still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards".
- Edward Abbey
- Edward Abbey
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"Technique has penetrated the deepest recesses of the human being. The machine tends not only to create a new human environment, but also to modify man's very essence. The milieu in which he lives is no longer his. He must adapt himself, as though the world were new, to a universe for which he was not created. He was made to go six kilometers an hour, and he goes a thousand. He was made to eat when he was hungry and to sleep when he was sleepy; instead, he obeys a clock. He was made to have contact with living things, and he lives in a world of stone. He was created with a certain essential unity, and he is fragmented by all the forces of the modern world".
- Jacques Ellul | The Technological Society
- Jacques Ellul | The Technological Society
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