Carolina QuotesPeople ... can think of nothing better to do than to continue attacking particular evils while vaguely hoping that their work will somehow help to solve the overall problem of technology. In reality their work is counterproductive, because it distracts attention from the technological system itself as the underlying source of the evils and leads people to focus instead on problems of limited significance that moreover cannot be permanently solved while the technological system continues to exist.
Ted Kaczynski Connected to the Carolinas
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- Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
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