Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How - Softcover

Kaczynski, Theodore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944228004 ISBN 13: 9781944228002

Publisher: Fitch & Madison Publishers, LLC, 2016

Synopsis

There are many people today who see that modern society is heading toward disaster in one form or another, and who moreover recognize technology as the common thread linking the principal dangers that hang over us... The purpose of this book is to show people how to begin thinking in practical, grand-strategic terms about what must be done in order to get our society off the road to destruction that it is now on." —from the Preface.

Publisher's Description:

A comprehensive historical analysis explaining the futility of social control and the catastrophic influence of technological growth on human social and planetary ecological systems. Distilled from the critical socio-historical analysis is the author's own theoretical framework for effecting meaningful and lasting change.

Note: Theodore John Kaczynski does not receive any remuneration for this book.

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From the Author

Selected Quotations from
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
by Theodore John Kaczynski

Technology Can Not Be Controlled

• "The development of societies will forever remain beyond rational human control." (p 31)
• "(H)umans' capacity to control the development of their societies not only hasfailed to progress, but has actually retrogressed." (p 12)
• "If the development of the technological world system is allowed to proceed to its logical conclusion, then in all probability the Earth will be left a dead planet." (p 55)
• "We have to conclude that humans will become obsolete." (p 71)

Short-Term Focus = Long-Term Extinction

• "Natural selection favors self-propagating systems that pursue their own short-term advantage with little or no regard for long-term consequences." (p 44)
• "Through a process of natural selection, the world comes to be dominated by organizations that make maximum possible use of all available resources to augment their own power without regard to long-term consequences." (p 57)
• "[There exists] a process common to all technologically-advanced civilizations that consistently leads them to self-destruction." (p 55)

It Can't Be Fixed -- The Technological System Must Go

• "The only way to get off the road to disaster that we are now on would be through a total collapse of organized society and therefore a descent into chaos." (p 33)
• "Desperate competition among the global self-prop systems will tear the world-system apart.... The chances of survival will approach zero. A catastrophic breakdown has tobe expected sooner or later." (p 48-49)
• "Anti-tech revolutionaries can't be satisfied with extracting concessions from the power-structure; they have to bring it down altogether." (p 144)
• "The goal a revolutionary movement sets itself must be nothing less than the total collapse of the technological system." (p 161)
• "A revolutionary organization should seek not to be liked, but to be respected, and it should have no aversion to being hated and feared." (p 155)
• "If the technological system were eliminated now a great deal could still be saved." (p 68)

Alternative Solutions

• TJK coins the term "Technianity" -- a religious belief in technological progress leading to a technological utopia such as the Singularity. (p74)
• "The notion of a future society governed in accord with a mathematical control system, rationally chosen and designed, can be dismissed as science fiction." (p 189)

From the Inside Flap

Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How builds on and extends Theodore Kaczynski's previous works, Industrial Society and Its Future and Technological Slavery, and represents the culmination of a lifetime of purposeful research and analytic inquiry into the devastating implications of technological growth, as well as the urgent need and organized procedures required to halt it. 

Anti-Tech Revolution argues that the global technological system is fundamentally incapable of reforming itself and will, unless challenged, inevitably lead to total disaster for humans and the biosphere.  It offers a strategic program for organizing and motivating people to take effective steps toward meaningful change, based on a comprehensive analysis of social movements and a new theoretical framework for understanding the dynamics of social change.

Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is more than a theoretical analysis.  It is a practical guide, offering methods to steer humanity away from the unprecedented existential crisis it faces as a result of runaway technological growth.  A work of advocacy and a call to serious, specific, practical action, Anti-Tech Revolution implores its readers to address the problem of technology head-on with optimism and courage.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fitch & Madison Publishers, LLC
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1944228004
• ISBN 13: 9781944228002
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236