Civilization is Unhealthy

There exists today an incredibly warped conception in the minds of the modern civilian about what life was like for the nomadic hunter-gatherers of the pre-civilized world and those who still exist today. Much of this is descended from the cultural effect of those European men who first ‘contacted’ the peoples of the Americas andContinue reading “Civilization is Unhealthy”

Misanthropy: An Analysis

In the previous post, we mentioned how a dedicated analysis of misanthropy is due. Misanthropy is generally defined as a dislike of humanity as a whole – that is to say that the misanthrope judges the net value of humans as negative. A misanthrope will look at the state of the world and conclude that,Continue reading “Misanthropy: An Analysis”

But People Will Just Industrialize Again, Right?

This is perhaps the most common point of contention that people who are not well-read in techno-skeptic literature will give as to why they do not see a point in revolution. This is even a common point made by people who are techno-skeptics, but are not interested or have any faith in revolution against theContinue reading “But People Will Just Industrialize Again, Right?”

Neoliberal Despair and Nihilism

The topic of suicide is discussed in this article There is a present sentiment that has been instilled in much of the people who have lived in our modern industrial technological neoliberal capitalist era that is both implicitly and explicitly adjacent to collapse-awareness. This sentiment I am discussing is a crushing nihilism. This is, ofContinue reading “Neoliberal Despair and Nihilism”

The Most Dangerous Aspect of Modern Technology

In 2009, a correspondent of Theodore Kaczynski asked if nuclear weapons are the most dangerous aspect of our modern technology. In the following, this writer will summarize and paraphrase the response given by Kaczynski, along with his own commentary. Nuclear weapons have been considered for a long time as the principle danger facing mankind, intensifiedContinue reading “The Most Dangerous Aspect of Modern Technology”