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Technological Slavery: Ted Kaczynski’s Warning and the Rise of the Machine Mind (Reading #3)
Episode 103
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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 1 (15s): Hello, everybody. I hope your day is going awesome. Sun is shining and the birds are singing. We are in the midst of a Corona virus, pandemic lockdown, blade runner, total recall, 1984, brave new world. Something like that. I hope you guys can find a reason to smile. I hope you can find something to love. Something to look forward to and something to do asked for this podcast, we are getting into some more of a, the industrial society and its future.
According to the writings of Theodore John Kaczynski, Reading number three, this particular reading is going to be a sources of social problems. However, I wanted to give you guys a little look ahead into some other interesting ideas that we'll be talking about. The nature of freedom, some principles of history, industrial technological society cannot be reformed. How about this?
The restriction of freedom is unavoidable in industrial society. The bad parts of technology cannot be separated from the good parts and is technology more, a more powerful social force than the aspiration for freedom. Got to get into all of that ladies and gentlemen, hope you're having a great day.
Let's get started on some of the sources of social problems. And I want you to think about, as you are listening to this, do you agree? Do you disagree? Is there more to add or do you know people that are going through some of these things? Let's check them out. Here we go. Any of the foregoing symptoms can occur in any society, but in modern industrial society, they are present on a massive scale.
We aren't the first to mention that the world today seems to be going crazy. This sort of thing is not normal for human societies. There's good reason to believe that primitive man suffered from less stress and frustration and was better satisfied with his way of life than modern man is. It is true that not all was sweetness and light and primitive societies, abusive women. What was common among the Australian Aborigines transsexuality
Speaker 2 (3m 1s): Was fairly common amongst some of the American Indian tribes, but it does appear that generally speaking, the kinds of problems that we have listed in the proceeding paragraph were far less common among primitive peoples. Then they are in modern society. We attribute these social and psychological problems of modern society to the fact that
Speaker 3 (3m 26s): That society requires people to
Speaker 2 (3m 28s): Live under conditions, radically different from those under which
Speaker 3 (3m 35s
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