The Industrial Revolution, to me, is just like a story I know... ..called The Puppy Who Lost His Way. The world was changing... ..and the puppy was getting... bigger. So, you see, the puppy was like industry,... ..in that they were both lost in the woods,... ..and nobody, especially the little boy - society - knew where to find them. Except that the puppy... was a dog. But the industry, my friends,... ..that was a revolution

The Industrial Revolution, to me, is just like a story I know... ..called The Puppy Who Lost His Way. The world was changing... ..and the puppy was getting... bigger. So, you see, the puppy was like industry,... ..in that they were both lost in the woods,... ..and nobody, especially the little boy - society - knew where to find them. Except that the puppy... was a dog. But the industry, my friends,... ..that was a revolution

OK. This is epic.

He was a great critic, but his Luddite solutions were draconian and unrealistic at best. We are however on a path that will either lead to our destruction or change what it means to be human.

dude needed to get laid is all:

https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/ ... with-women

He made some interesting points.

If we’re going to take his manifesto seriously, I’d ask how much insight he had into the psyche of the typical, everyday, pre-industrial revolution schmuck.

His own life was unfulfilling because he was effectively an incel.

If we’re going to take his manifesto seriously, I’d ask how much insight he had into the psyche of the typical, everyday, pre-industrial revolution schmuck.

His own life was unfulfilling because he was effectively an incel.

I wonder what his thoughts on technology and the industrial revolution would have been had he been raised as a peasant farmer in Eastern Europe circa 1800 where the few times he had enough food to take a shit he was ravaged by dysentery and his teeth fell out of his head before he was thirty years old.

It is a little funny he isn’t more studied. At least more in the main media streams people see. I realize there are stacks of academic papers on him.

He lived a life outside of modern society much like those schmucks. He is a genius who was a college professor. His foresight on technical progress was frankly astonishing. That manifesto is clearly a brilliant social critique. Maybe if he applied that intelligence towards making money he would have been a Bill Gates instead of incarcerated. Gates just got too rich to be an incel.

His core premise was that technological advancements make modern life unfulfilling.

His core premise was that technological advancements make modern life unfulfilling. In order for that to be true, he’d have to have some sense of the relative contentment of past generations.

His own lack of experience made him unaware that fulfillment can come from many places - faith, family, achievements by your favorite football team, etc.

I think it’s likely that his mathematical genius made him blind to all the shit he didn’t know.

His core premise was that technological advancements make modern life unfulfilling. In order for that to be true, he’d have to have some sense of the relative contentment of past generations.

His own lack of experience made him unaware that fulfillment can come from many places - faith, family, achievements by your favorite football team, etc.

I think it’s likely that his mathematical genius made him blind to all the shit he didn’t know.

No. He was wrong. Technology has improved life in hundreds of ways. Those who find life unfulfilling would feel the same way if they were still tending to a farm with an ox and a plow. A portion of society is always going to feel unfulfilled no matter what they have and how they live.