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The ultimate goal of a revolutionary movement today must be the total collapse of the worldwide technological system.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
No matter how much energy is provided, the system always expands rapidly until it is using all available energy, and then it demands still more.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
The development of a society can never be subject to rational human control.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
In the short term, natural selection favors self-propagating systems that pursue their own short-term advantage with little or no regard for long-term consequences.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
As technology progresses and globalization grows more pervasive, the world-system becomes ever more complex and more tightly coupled, so that a catastrophic breakdown has to be expected sooner or later.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
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.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
It seems amazing that those who advocate energy conservation haven't noticed what happens: As soon as some energy is freed up by conservation, the technological world-system gobbles it up and demands more. No matter how much energy is provided, the system always expands rapidly until it is using all available energy, and then it demands still more.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
Where (as today) problems of transportation and communication do not constitute effective limitations on the size of the geographical regions over which self-propagating systems operate, natural selection tends to create a world in which power is mostly concentrated in the possession of a relatively small number of global self-propagating systems.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)
An antitechnological movement that focused on the elimination of capitalism would gain little in return for an enormous expenditure of energy. What is worse, by focusing on capitalism the movement would distract its own and other people's attention from the far more important objective of bringing down the technological system itself.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015)