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Technological Slavery: Ted Kaczynski’s Warning and the Rise of the Machine Mind (Reading #7)
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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 1 (19s): Welcome back, everybody let's jump right back in to Technological Slavery writing's of the Unabomber Human Race at a Crossroads we have gotten ahead of our story. It is one thing to develop in the laboratory, a series of psychological or biological techniques from manipulating human behavior and quite another to integrate these techniques into a functioning social system.
This to me brings to mind the Stanley Milgram experiments. For those of you on aware of the Stanley Milgram experiments, look up a Stanford prison experiment and Stanley Milgrim. I think you'll find it amazing. The latter problem is the more difficult of the two. For example, while the techniques of educational psychology doubtless works quite well in the lab schools, where they are developed, it is not necessarily easy to apply them effectively.
Throughout our educational system. We all know that many of our schools are alike. The teachers are too busy as of 1995, taking knives and guns away from the kids to subject them to the latest techniques for making them into computer nerds. Thus, in spite of all its technical advances relating to human behavior, the system to date has not been impressively successful in controlling human beings.
The people whose behavior is fairly well under the control of the system are those have the type that might be called booyah, but there are growing numbers of people who were in one way or another are rebels against the system. Welfare leeches, youth gangs, Colt, a Satanist Nazis, radical environmentalist's militiamen, et cetera. The system is currently engaged in a desperate struggle to overcome certain problems that threaten its survival among which the problems of human behavior are the most important.
If the system succeeds in acquiring sufficient control over human behavior quickly enough, it will probably survive. Otherwise it will break down. We think the issue will most likely be resolved within the next several decades, say 40 to a hundred years. Suppose the system survives the crisis of the next several decades. By that time, it will have to have solved or at least brought under control.
The principle problems that confront it in particular that have socializing human beings that is making people sufficiently docile so that their behavior no longer threatens the system that being accomplished. It does not appear that
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