Was he wrong?

*snake has grown to the top of its dominance hierarchy

ftfy

he wasn't executed

That makes no sense. The snake is the system itself.
The dominating/dominated relation, which is a traditional political form, is dead. It has been replaced by the general hegemony where everybody is involuntarily complicit with the system simply because there's no existing alternative to it, no possibility of opposing it from the outside. Hence your existence is that of a hostage helping the system from within rather than an enemy attacking it from without.

Didn't he actually take a class with Chomsky (as his peer)? I think the professor was important too.

Where did you hear that? I've read a couple biographies on him and have never seen that mentioned before, but it would deeply interest me if true

I recently read his manifesto and, man, he wasn't a crazy fellow. Many of his remarks on industrial society are kinda accurate.

no.
and Zerzan is an idealist.

My own academic advisory actually, but we were a few beers in so no promises. I'll ask him again tonight. I'm pretty damn sure that he said Chomsky and the bomber took Quine's logic class together, but it sounds like a lot of bullshit.

>advisory
advisor*

I wouldn't normally spellcheck myself but that looked like it actually could lead to confusion

I wonder what teddy thinks/feels now that he's out of prison and can see first hand how much technical industrial society has advanced

About all the things he said that he ripped off Jacques Ellul? No. About all the things he said that he didn't rip off from Ellul? Yes, absolutely.

And just like that, his entire philosophy and terrorist activity is btfo'd definitively.

Ted doesn't wear glasses and neither do I.
You ever heard of Darwin?

kek

Was the unabomber anprim? I don't know shit about his views honestly.

> You ever heard of Darwin?

You mean that marine biologist with a weak power process, aka a leftist?

He's anprim but not feminist anprim like Zerzan basically. Ted likes to pretend that he's more jaded than the other anprims.

JUST

He actually stated that he finds egalitarian values commendable, but then adds that they wouldn't work in a post-technological world. It's in his new book, "Anti-Tech Revolution", I think.

He was right about what technology has done to civilization.

He was wrong to think that it could be stopped.

Also wrong for killing random people.

i dont give a shit about his political beliefs 2bh but he's literally 100% right about technological centralization. like it's not a matter of opinion here, he was factually correct. it's a truth of the universe.

That's a sketch of the sketch artist

It's not the right sketch.

Your triggering me

Is that Weird Al Yankovic? If so, then no.

>Darwin
>Marine Biologist
you're gonna need to bait a bit harder if you wanna reel in those (you)'s

You sure? Looks right to me.

Is civilization fucked bros?

>Cracked.com
Shit, I haven't gone to that site in years. Not remotely Veeky Forums, though.

Pretty sure he was a materialist.

he's 5'1? wtf

talk about weak power process

Execution by imprisonment

How fucking big do you think an inch is?

asked about this last night, evidently it's true

Yeah but his relationship with Joy Richards was too cute

His head is also less 2 inches tall

this sounds like exactly the type of thing that chomsky and (((them))) would suppress if it is true.

>tfw Weird Al got away with it scott free

His manifesto was a brilliant and unique take on the malaise of modern technological society. Even technocrats who he wanted to kill such as Bill Joy expressed interest in it. But the idea that he could somehow put a stop to the creeping technological dystopia by bombing researchers and engineers is absurd. Then again I suppose he had no other options available to him and wanted to strong arm his manifesto into publication.

>His manifesto was a brilliant and unique take on the malaise of modern technological society.

but Ellul wrote The Technological Society in 1954.

BOO HOO IF I CAN'T WIN THE GAME I'LL TURN OVER THE WHOLE TABLE

What a fucking loser.

>WIN THE GAME
Who is winning the game, user?

Motherfucker had a thin head

Pol Pot was the ideal primitivist

Exactly.

>his egalitarianism
?

>what's not to like

13. Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American Indians), repellent (homosexuals) or otherwise inferior. The leftists themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit to themselves that they have such feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with their problems. (We do not mean to suggest that women, Indians, etc. ARE inferior; we are only making a point about leftist psychology.)

14. Feminists are desperately anxious to prove that women are as strong and as capable as men. Clearly they are nagged by a fear that women may NOT be as strong and as capable as men.

15. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.

16. Words like “self-confidence,” “self-reliance,” “initiative,” “enterprise,” “optimism,” etc., play little role in the liberal and leftist vocabulary. The leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society to solve everyone’s problems for them, satisfy everyone’s needs for them, take care of them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.

17. Art forms that appeal to modern leftish intellectuals tend to focus on sordidness, defeat and despair, or else they take an orgiastic tone, throwing off rational control as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation and all that was left was to immerse oneself in the sensations of the moment.

wassup man

>Liberals are control freaks with a victim complex who are compensating for their lack of self worth
>Conservatives endorse free-market capitalism, yet are completely unaware that such wanton economic expansion leads to the break down of traditional values, which leaves them impotent to preserve said values

That kind of 'conservative' is what we today call a neo-liberal.

Ted and Zerzan had a falling out because Ted said Zerzan wasn't logically accepting of the many, many shortcomings of anarcho-primitivism, and that it was intellectually dishonest to not bring them up.

hi there CIA, how’s it hanging

Be careful we don't hang you
As for Ted, I'll buy his thesis that life is just all self-propagating machines
I think that essay, on self-propagating machines, was worthwhile, I've read the rest of his stuff and it is forgetable and not even right
I don't get why he doesn't see why any action taken against increasing technology is bound to fail because of scale

it s the only anti conservative quote in the entire manifesto. he considers conservatism a movement that has always existed more or less in its present form throughout much of recorded western society.

modern liberalism he considers an emerging mental illness, a byproduct of the industrial and now tech societies. he exposes the movement for not being interested in humanity at all and only doning the mantle of crusader for human rights in order to have an outlet to vent their frustrations and feelings of powerlessness