This is a libertarian, anarcho-capitalist manifesto with a sprinkling of 1960 tech boosterism so that they can point at people who disagree and call them luddites.
I'm a massive techno-optimist. I think science and technology has self-evidently bought vast improvements to the human experience. I think it's an absolutely essential part of solving many of the problems that plague the world right now, and will do so in the future. But I whole-heartedly reject sizeable chunks of this teenage-political-science-student level manifesto.
If that somehow makes me a luddite, then pass me an iron bar and point me towards the nearest cropping frame, because apprently I have some wrecking to do?
I think a TO would be how can we make the whole world more democratic, more self sufficient, more distributed with the lowest possible impact on the environment. And to do that, we would need to educate the world's population to never before seen levels. Technology is a byproduct of an educated population. 1/10th of everyone who has been alive is right now. This is a huge resource we are wasting with the subjugation of the classes.
Well, essentially the libertarian anarcho-capitalist bits.
TBH, I can can just strongly disagree with people like that, but what got me worked up about this pile of high-school grade political science was the way it conflated all that libertarian anarcho-capitalism with being pro-tech, and implying that any concern for the negative effects of developement (or of the economic system) therefore automatically puts you on the "enemies" side of things.
It's a frantastically offensive false catagorisation that I strongly reject.
This is a libertarian, anarcho-capitalist manifesto with a sprinkling of 1960 tech boosterism so that they can point at people who disagree and call them luddites.
I'm a massive techno-optimist. I think science and technology has self-evidently bought vast improvements to the human experience. I think it's an absolutely essential part of solving many of the problems that plague the world right now, and will do so in the future. But I whole-heartedly reject sizeable chunks of this teenage-political-science-student level manifesto.
If that somehow makes me a luddite, then pass me an iron bar and point me towards the nearest cropping frame, because apprently I have some wrecking to do?