Message from @Shiba Inu
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Ted pointed out how, in modern society, there is no effort needed to provide for yourself, society tends to care for people from cradle to grave so long as you work. In an attempt to find a sense of satisfaction with one's self, people turn to what he called "surrogate activities," activities not necessary for survival, as a replacement, and as a result, many people are unable to find true happiness in the world and forge their own path, and he does a great job of pointing out how this lack of self-autonomy is responsible for widespread psychological problems and modern man's decadent spirit.
There's also gems like this
```Modern technology, with its rapid long-distance transportation and its disruption of traditional ways of life, has led to the mixing of populations, so that nowadays people of different races, nationalities, cultures, and religions have to live and work side by side. If people hate or reject one another on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual preference, etc., the resulting conflicts interfere with the functioning of the System. Apart from a few old fossilized relics of the past like Jesse Helms, the leaders of the System know this very well, and that is why we are taught in school and through the media to believe that racism, sexism, homophobia, and so forth are social evils to be eliminated.```
This is the greatest piece of literature ever written.
You can have modern technology in an ethnostate so i don’t see what he’s getting at
It won't remain an ethnostate
If there’s laws that keep it that way it will
The United States was an ethnostate as well as Great Britain
They also had laws that favored white majorities
But they abolished those laws
Yes
Has nothing to do with tech
What makes you think those same laws couldn't be abolished in the future?
in the new ethnostate
It has to do with the development of large scale civilization and the ensuing globalization, which is enabled by technology
Do you disagree with the assertion that less advanced civilizations are more traditional?
Surely you are lying to yourself if you do
The key is ending the cycle
of decadence
not starting over from scratch and doing the same shit over again that led us here
It’s up to the people to ensure an ethnostate’s survival over the years, just like its up to the people to preserve anything else. Modern tech is beneficial in many ways
It was up to the Americans and the British to ensure an ethnostate's survival. Clearly they failed.
Yeah. What a bunch of losers
The process will repeat itself
The system cannot be reformed
it must be destroyed
How would you do that anyway
I don't know if it's even possible at this point. We may have crossed the point of no return
It not being possible doesn't mean it isn't true, though. Fighting a losing war doesn't instantly make you wrong.
It is possible that the system will collapse in on itself, or one day people may grow tired of it (which some are now, though they are misguided)
The first is more likely than the second
I can see automation collapsing the system by taking away significantly more jobs than can be replaced
The only way you can be sure history doesn’t repeat itself is the complete extinction of peoples or maybe colonization of a new planet
Become neo-luddite
difference between marxian socialism and spenglerian socialism?
your mom
my socialism can be the only socialism REEEE
honestly neo-luddism wont save the world
only transhumanism will
thats what humans have done successfully for eternity