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Harm/Benefit Analysis

March 8, 2016

Harm/Benefit Analysis According to Kaczynski, we need to reject organization-dependent technologies that tie us into the technosphere, and cultivate organization-independent ones: Small-scale technology is technology that can be used by small-scale communities without outside assistance. Organization-dependent technology is technology that depends on large-scale social organization. We are aware of no significant cases of regression in […]

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Shrinking the Technosphere, Part VIII

December 1, 2015

Shrinking the Technosphere, Part VIII This series of blog posts offers a preview to a book which is yet to be written. Since it is turning out to be a rather long series, it seems fair to recap, to give you an idea of where we have been and where we are going. We started […]

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Shrinking the Technosphere, Part VII

November 24, 2015

Shrinking the Technosphere, Part VII You have survived your first winter on the land. Congratulations! The worst part of the ordeal is quite possibly over. Gone are whatever addictions and expectations with which you arrived, be they internet access or coffee. Your new world consists of the few people around you, and a huge number […]

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Shrinking the Technosphere, Part V

November 10, 2015

Shrinking the Technosphere, Part V Before we proceed any further in describing how political technologies can be used to bring about the sort of dramatic social change that might grant humanity a new lease on life on planet Earth, let’s describe what “naturelike technologies” might look like. By “naturelike” we mean something that is in […]

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Shrinking the Technosphere, Part III

October 20, 2015

Shrinking the Technosphere, Part III [Part I] [Part II] Previously in this series of posts we outlined how inside the US special interests use political technologies to keep the population fooled. We also showed how these efforts will eventually fail, either through internal contradiction or because the parasites eventually end up killing the host. We […]

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Shrinking the Technosphere, Part II

October 14, 2015

Shrinking the Technosphere, Part II [Part I] Political technologies have three main goals: 1. Changing the rules of the game between participants in the political process. 2. Introducing into the mass consciousness new concepts, values, opinions and convictions. 3. Direct manipulation of human behavior through mass media and administrative methods. Political technologies pursue these tactical […]

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Shrinking the Technosphere, Part I

October 13, 2015

Shrinking the Technosphere, Part I On September 28, while addressing the UN General Assembly, Putin proposed “implementing naturelike technologies, which will make it possible to restore the balance between the biosphere and the technosphere.” It is necessary to do so to combat catastrophic global climate change, because, according to Putin, CO2 emissions cuts, even if implemented […]

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