Ted Kaczynski on Revolution and the Technoindustrial System

Please note that the venue is in the vicinity of the Scott Monument and will be announced to RSVPing members closer to the event date. We will NOT be meeting at the monument, itself.

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Please join us for a discussion of a short reading from Ted Kaczynski’s 2008 book, Technological Slavery.

We’ll look specifically at his essays, “The Coming Revolution” and “The Road to Revolution.”

Here are a few quotes from the first:

“The yearning for freedom, attachment to nature, courage, honor, honesty, morality, friendship, love and all of the other social instincts…even free will itself: all of these human qualities, valued in the highest degree from the dawn of the human race, evolved through the millennia because they were appropriate and useful in the primitive circumstances in which people lived. But today, so-called ‘progress’ is changing the circumstances of human life to such an extent that these formerly advantageous qualities are becoming obsolete and useless.”

“The values linked with ‘progress’ have now become the values of [the] dominating regime: the technoindustrial system that rules the world today. [But] other new values are emerging that are beginning to challenge…the values of the technoindustrial system. The new values are totally incompatible with technoindustrial values, so that the tension between the two systems of values cannot be relieved through compromise. It is certain that the partisans of technology will not voluntarily give in to the new values. Doing so would entail the sacrifice of everything they live for; they would rather die than yield. If the new values spread and grow strong enough, the tension will rise to a point at which revolution will be the only possible outcome. And there is reason to believe that the new values will indeed spread and grow stronger.”

Find the essays here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWfSkA9iNvBMYFHyBM1NUqeVDLmJFB2O/view?usp=sharing

We hope to see you there!

C&S