Technological Distancing
by Sufi

The Unabomber's Manifesto Thesis

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in "advanced" countries.
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Well, if I hadn't experienced enough I just witnessed proof how technology distances us. It is very interesting because technology attempts to connect us artificially. Technology doesn't care about its users, the connection is artificial!

Artificial Connection:

What this means is that we are becmoming extensions of technological "improvements". Here's an example:

A cellphone acts as a commmunicative device to bring us together right? WRONG. The freaking suppliers of your cellphone service don't give a fuck if you are connected with your friends and family! They want you to have it so that you can use THEIR service, THAT is artificial connection.

The suppliers of cellpones and cellphone planners are merely puppets to the controlling grasp of wealth and disordered capitalist ideologies.

So this is where technology is prevailing and the human race being subjected to sever mutations.

Artifical connection wants us to become more distant from each other. We get the idea that we really don't need to speak to each other in person anymore that we can easily speak together hundreds and hundreds of miles away. That doesn't connect us, it distances us. Communication shuold have been made in plain view which heightens a sense of community. Artificial connection won't allow that to happen, unfortunatley because of the hurried stressful nature of the human condition.

Now, another phenomena occurs when you ask an individual when your recipient (the person you want to contact). The individual is either a good friend or a family member of the one you seek but the most astonishing thing occurs when they say "I don't know" which is what they oftentimes say!

Why do they say that?

They say that because they haven't the slightest or faintest idea that their closest ones are not around them and they haven't got a clue where they went! How can that be?! Simple! It's because of technological distancing. Life has become so hurried that technology makes it stressful and in doing so it alienates us! It also attempts to distance us but it works anyways.

Next time when someone asks you where a person you know is, just tell them he/she is before you sound like a fucking dumbfuck for not knowing.


Technology Blows and I love It For Giving Me The Time To Write On HERE! =D