The Many Delusions of Transhumanists

The idea of a coming technological utopia in which humans upload their minds into a machine to live forever conquering the universe or living in an immortal video game is a popular fantasy held by many technophiles. It is an appealing idea that may serve to help people cope with their anxieties about the future

Capitalism vs Communism is Mostly a False-Conflict

There is hardly a person alive or dead who has not been exposed to the passionate ideological conflict that has raged proper for the past century and a half, most of whom have taken a strong stance regardless of their familiarity with the particular details of either economic system. This war is hardly surprising as

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 and

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,

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 the

Personal Deindustrializaton and Living in Harmony with Nature

Whether or not you have any sort of hope that the global system of industrialism can be defeated, something that we certainly should do is to deindustrialize our personal lives. As Nietzsche claims, a philosopher, to deserve our respect, must preach by example. It will also show those around us that this lifestyle can be

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, of

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, intensified