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Technological Slavery: Ted Kaczynski’s Warning and the Rise of the Machine Mind (Reading #1)
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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?
Transcript:
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Speaker 0 (0s): Your skin is technological.
Speaker 1 (11s): Industrial society and its future.
Speaker 0 (18s): Okay.
Speaker 1 (19s): For those of you that are not aware of mr. Kaczynski, he was the Unibomber and Harvard graduates graduate. Have a, I believe he was in the Harvard LSD studies is Well mathematician turned in by his brother and he had some fascinating ideas on the future of technology. And that's what we're going to get into his philosophy and get into some of his ideas and kind of go through and point out some areas in which he may have been correct in some ways in which he may have not been correct.
So it should be fun. I, I, I find his writings to be peculiar in their authenticity. It seems they're very genuine. What he's saying is something he truly believes, and he presents a lot of evidence to back it up. And it's a, it is a new angle that is rarely spoken up.
So without getting too much further into the weeds, let's just go ahead and start it here. The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life expectancy of those of us who live in advanced countries, but they have destabilized. A society have made life unfulfilling have subjected human beings to indignities have led to widespread psychological suffering in the third world to physical suffering as well and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world.
The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to a greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world. They will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering, even in advanced countries and a lot in their right. Let's just go over a little bit of it here. Would you agree that it has destabilized society?
I would think so. The ever widening gap in education finance literacy health clearly has been radicalized during the industrial revolution. Has it subjected human beings to indignities? Well, I think we all have added to that.
I'm talking to you on an iPhone and I have phones made at Fox con in China where people live in the building's like dorms and they have nets outside there Dwellings so that people don't jump off the roof and kill themselves or so that when people jump off the roof, they land at a net.
Speaker 2 (3m 43s): It is
Speaker 1 (3m 45s): To be fair, quite unfulfilling. And I think a
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