LUDDITE CLUB

View Instagram post Almost every national government in the world claims to be 'democratic', and yet people have never had this little control over their own lives. To blame certain groups, or even certain ideologies, is far-sighted and has gotten us nowhere. History has shown that the technological infrastructure of industrial society inevitably leads to stratification and inequality, among countless other societal issues. Do YOU want to help put an end to the Techno-industrial system? Join the Wilderness Front today🌲

“But what kind of freedom does one have if one can use it only as someone else prescribes?”

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“The human being was made to breathe the good air of nature, but what he breathes is an obscure compound of acids and coal tars. He was created for a living environment, but he dwells in a lunar world of stone, cement, asphalt, glass, cast iron, and steel. The trees wilt and blanch among sterile and blind stone facades. Cats and dogs disappear little by little from the city, going the way of the horse. Only rats and men remain to populate a dead world. Man was created to have room to move about in, to gaze into far distances, to live in rooms which, even when they were tiny, opened out on fields. See him now, enclosed by the rules and architectural necessities imposed by overpopulation in a twelve-by-twelve closet opening out on an anonymous world of city streets." - Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society

"Among the abnormal conditions to which modern society subjects man are excessive density of population, isolation of man from nature, excessive rapidity of social change and the breakdown of natural small-scale communities such as the extended family, the village or the tribe” - Theodore Kaczynski

"There is 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." - Theodore Kaczynski

Results of disrupted power process in Industrial society

“A technological society has to weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently. An individual's loyalty must be first to the system and only secondarily to a small-scale community, because if the internal loyalties of small-scale communities were stronger than loyalty to the system, such communities would pursue their own advantage at the expense of the system. Suppose that a public official or a corporation executive appoints his cousin, his friend or his co-religionist to a position rather than appointing the person best qualified for the job. He has permitted personal loyalty to supersede his loyalty to the system, and that is "nepotism" or "discrimination", both of which are terrible sins in modern society. Thus an advanced industrial society can tolerate only those small-scale communities that are emasculated, tamed and made into tools of the system.“

Post-collapse