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I mean… he's certainly wrong about many things such as leftism in general being incompatible with nature (cooperation and empathy is everywhere in nature, we just chose to ignore it for quite a while - not saying all left movements include those tho'…) or technology inherently bad. But when it comes to how the tech is used against people, how people are manipulated into fitting the system instead of the other way around and how it makes life worse… yeah, he surely got a point.
I can't say I agree with all I read about him, but this paragraph I quoted got me thinking and I recognized it as a warning.
I wouldn't say that I'm in favour of a Luddite way of living or want to join the Amish.
I would like having a SWOT analysis of technology though instead of blindly adopting it and dealing with fallout later if ever.
The realist in me realizes that there's money to be made and that's why technology gets shoved down our throats by oligarchs whether we want it or not.