Carolina QuotesThe ultimate goal of a revolutionary movement today must be the total collapse of the worldwide technological system.
Ted Kaczynski Connected to the Carolinas
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p. 138
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- Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
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- 2015
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- p. 138
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“The ultimate goal of a revolutionary movement today must be …” Ted Kaczynski. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-26B337127A. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/26b337127a
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As technology progresses and globalization grows more pervasive, the world-system becomes ever more complex and more tightly coupled, so that a catastrophic breakdown has to be expected sooner or later.
The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called "democratic" structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a "democratic" system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.