Technological Slavery Reading #3

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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): Human race evolved that is for sure, and to behave in ways that conflict with that

Speaker 2 (3m 43s): Patterns of behavior that the human race developed while living under the earlier conditions. It is clear from what we have already written that we consider lack of opportunity to properly experience the power process as the most.

Speaker 3 (4m 1s): How important have the abnormal conditions to which modern society subjects people, but it is not the only one before dealing with Disruption of it.

Speaker 2 (4m 12s): Power process as a source of social problems, we will discuss some of the other sources among the abnormal conditions present in modern industrial society are excessive density of population isolation of man from nature, excessive rapidity of social change and the breakdown of natural,

Speaker 3 (4m 35s): Small scale communities, such as the extended family, the village or the tribe. I would agree.

Speaker 2 (4m 43s): And with all of those, what do you guys think have normal conditions, excessive density of population. Yes. Where I live, I live in Honolulu in there's so many Crain's downtown and they were just constantly building bigger, taller, newer buildings, and it's just becoming so dense. And I always think to myself, you know, as a delivery driver, right, I deliver to some of the new buildings, the construction sites, some of the older buildings.

And I, I always speak to the doorman. He was like, you know, I got a quick joke for ya. Do you know the difference between a good building and a bad building? And for those of you that don't live in like a city, there's all these skyscrapers. Okay. And there is a really tall buildings and people that are always morning, is that a good building? Is that a bad building? So do you know the difference between a good building and a bad building to live in a good building, has a doorman, a bad building, has a man at the door, pretty classic.

Anyways, I always talk to the guys at the front desk and I ask them, especially in the new building's like, Hey, who's buying all these things, man. And a lot of the times the doorman, you know, he'll speak of of, Oh, well, you know, that right was this celebrity That bought one. And then there was this person that bought one and I go, what is their, a lot of like vacancies, a see rates. And a lot of times there's really not that many vacancy rates.

And I got into a conversation a while back with a guy that says the majority of place is being bought up in these high rise. And in mind you, these are not cheap high rises. These are like a million dollars for a 800 square foot, one bedroom overlooking the ocean and its a tower with like 800 units in, it may be a thousand units. So a lot of these places are being bought by, you know, hedge funds or group, right.

Of people getting together to invest money in property and then they can write it off later or you know, they can put it in whatever they are going to put it in some sort of financial instrument But so there's all these people that don't even live there, buying properties as an investment that they can Maybe Airbnb or they could just rent out or just right off, you know, and as they do that, they were constantly driving up the price. Okay. And you know, driving out to people. So it's, it's right on par with his idea of excessive density of population, also isolation of man from nature, the more people are herded into cities.

The more you use it, I get away from that connection of, of the plan that you get away from your connection of earth. Instead of being in the jungle, you're in the concrete jungle, the rapidity of social change, the breakdown of natural small-scale communities, all that. So I, I would argue that in a weird way, there is a, Reading turned to small scale communities online, which is not the same and that there is no real visceral connection to family or traditions or stuff like that.

However, its, it is sort of a small school, a scale community back to the book. It as well, all known that crowding increases stress and aggression. The degree of crowding that exists today and the isolation of man from nature are consequences of technological progress. All preindustrial societies were predominantly rural. The industrial revolution vastly increase the size of city's and the proportion of the population that lives here.

And then additionally mean a modern agricultural technology has made it for the earth

Speaker 3 (8m 56s): To support a far denser population than it ever did before. Also technology exacerbates the effects of crowding because it puts increased disruptive powers in people's hands. For example, of a variety of noise, making devices, power mowers, radios, motorcycles, et cetera. If the use of these devices is unrestricted. People who want peace and quiet are frustrated by the noise.

If they are used is restricted. People who use the devices are frustrated by the regulat...