We tried to civilize ourselves with technology. But the banality of comfort and the sterility of enlightenment did not calm the primal chaos within, it only made it restless, till it commandeered our gadgets and digitally reprimitivized us with culture war tribalism and trolling.
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There are some very interesting insights in Ted Kaczynski's manifesto from decades ago. Now I am in no way condoning anything about him, particularly his actions, but some of his observations on technology are astonishingly prescient considering how long ago he wrote them.
I have read excerpts from it and concur, he was remarkably perceptive. What a tragic waste.
