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Technological Slavery: Ted Kaczynski’s Warning and the Rise of the Machine Mind (Reading #5)
Episode 105
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Before he became a symbol of rebellion and tragedy, Ted Kaczynski was a mathematician turned philosopher who saw the trajectory of civilization as a slow suicide by technology. In this reading and analysis of Technological Slavery, George Monty dives into the uncomfortable truths of Kaczynski’s arguments — the loss of autonomy, the illusion of progress, and the psychological toll of a world governed by machines.
This episode isn’t an endorsement — it’s an examination of a prophetic, dangerous mind who saw the future unfolding faster than anyone could stop it.
In this episode:
- The core philosophy behind Technological Slavery
- How technological systems dominate human behavior
- The paradox of freedom in a hyper-connected world
- The moral and psychological collapse of industrial society
- Can humanity reclaim control from its own creation?
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Speaker 0 (0s): Right, right.
Speaker 1 (6s): Welcome back. My friends. Hope you're all having a great day were getting right back into some Technological Slavery Reading number for you
Speaker 0 (14s): Or for, for, for by Theodore John Cause it's the same
Speaker 1 (22s): And one revised and expanded addition. If you remember, when we left
Speaker 0 (25s): Off,
Speaker 1 (28s): Excuse me, when we left off with, so the motivations of scientists' the nature of Freedom, how people adjust, right?
Speaker 0 (34s): And we are moving forward
Speaker 1 (37s): With the industrial society and its future. Let's jump right in. I don't want to keep you any longer than I already have some principles of history. Think of history as the sum of two components and erratic component that consists of unpredictable events that follow no discernible pattern
Speaker 0 (1m 1s): And a regular
Speaker 1 (1m 1s): Component that consists of long-term historical trends. Here we are concerned with the long-term trends.
Speaker 0 (1m 11s): First principal, right?
Speaker 1 (1m 13s): If a small change is made, that affects a long-term historical trend than the effect of that change will almost always be transitory. The trend will soon revert to its original state example. A reform movement designed to clean up political corruption in a society rarely has more than a short-term effect sooner or later, the reformers relax and corruption creeps back in the level of political corruption in a given society tends to remain constant or to change only slowly with the evolution of society.
Normally a political cleanup will be permanent only if a company by widespread social changes, a small change in the society will not be enough. If a small change in a long-term historical trend appears to be permanent. It is only because of the change acts in the direction in which the trend is already moving so that the trend is not there
Speaker 0 (2m 21s): And altered, but only pushed a step ahead. You know what I,
Speaker 1 (2m 27s): Regardless of what country you live in, I think we are seeing evidence of this first principle take place.
Speaker 0 (2m 33s): Yes. And let me try to break that down a little bit for everyone. Does anybody really remember before COVID I know it's been a while
Speaker 1 (2m 45s): Really overwhelming for a lot of people and th
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