Uncle Ted has passed. RIP
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They just can't help themselves, can they? Nothing about his manifestio is violent or unhinged. It's all reasonably articulated ideas. They're just trying to prime people who might be inclined to read it now that he's passed.
His manifesto is more accurate than basically every other written predictions of our society.
He's the American Nostradamus.
It's not even that difficult to discern. Once you understand historical cycles and basic human behavior, seeing repeated patterns throughout society and history, regardless of scale, it's quite easy to predict. Too many people, especially lefties, like to assume only "authorities" and "scientists" can know what's going to happen, believing that everything is complicated and laypeople can't see or know what problems or causes are, and extrapolate from there.
They used to be able to. If you read contemporary news reports around when ISAIF was published prior to him having been caught, I suspect they would have used far more neutral language than this. Calling something "unhinged" would have been reserved for the OpEd pages.
This is a recent phenomenon.
Yeah I've noticed this shift too. When I was younger there was no way a "respectable" journalist would use that kind of language.
The Columbia school of journalism literally changed their principles. They switched from objectivity and emotional detachment to outright activism and relativism. These are the official standards for the industry.
Same as with language of the current generation media has lost a lot of articulation, too. Idiocracy seems more and more like a prediction for the future.
You can see how newspapers have just become propaganda since about 2012.
Hahaha no they've been propaganda for much longer than that. Remember the Maine?
What a lunatic!
The problem is he did not think the solution was to hand over full control of government and thereafter our lives to a small self-appointed group of pseudo-religious elites.
Instead his solution was to get out of the city, grow or hunt your own food, stay off the grid as much as possible and take responsibility for your own welfare.
Absolute lunacy, I know.
He came up not too long ago in a (surprisingly cordial considering the participants) IRL conversation I had with some shitlibs, and it took a surprising amount of effort to keep my drunken self from accidentally calling him "Uncle Ted".
Someone told me to check out his manifesto. I’ll see what it was all about.
His manifesto is one of the most coherent, articulate arguments against modern society. I have come to understand that we must either return to a pre-industrial society, or (more likely) move to a society that restricts technology to a cadre of people who can understand it.
The normie Internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Now I want to read it even more
Example: "The Leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs."
Nailed it. Damn the guy sounds like the first Alex Jones
He blasts the Left repeatedly.
Always worth keeping in mind the publication date while reading as well. If it were published today it would probably gain traction sheerly because of how well-articulated and thorough it is, but adding in the fact that it was written decades ago makes it nothing short of prophetic.
In a somewhat less serious vein, I read a bit from my one of my Calvin and Hobbes books recently and was blown away at how apt sone of the strips lampooning victimhood culture were to modern times, despite being written no later than 1995. History really does rhyme.
I have been rereading Calvin and Hobbes since my childhood when I was following it in the newspaper and every time there is something new to learn. It is a timeless classic.
He wasn't overly fond of the right either in fairness
"Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values."
True. For the average (ie, not us) rightist this is a major blind spot.
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I'm as right as they come, but I'm not fond of us either. Look at the pussies we continue to elect to represent us. The right gets off on being the lovable loser
This speaks to me on a visceral level. Most people are unfit to be trusted with something as ubiquitous as an automobile but we kept handing out technology as it evolved faster and faster and now the digital age has more or less destroyed the fabric of society because the people accessing it now are no longer those with enough cognitive capacity to recognize and mitigate against the dangers it poses.
It's going to be a wild future with AI on the horizon. Imho people should need pass a test to even touch some stuff if it was according to me. We do the same with cars, forklifts, cranes, etc. While most tech that is potentially harmful doesn't hurt your body, it sure does hurt your mind. I am specifically thinking about the Internet and especially social media(which I would outright abolish if I could).
100% this.
He was only one, but an important one, of a bunch of thinkers who acted as a wall for me to bounce off of. I didn't end up particularly close to this wall but you always leave a little behind and bring a bit with you
Man out of time.
What he ended up doing was bad, and yet I truly do hope he is resting in peace now. The man had a troubled life and was likely the victim of MKULTRA, which probably resulted in him turning to the options he did. He was unbelieveably smart and faced literal torture in his lifetime. I don't blame him for turning to the actions he committed.
Industrialised Society and Its Future should be read by a lot more people.
He tried to warn us. RIP.
Hugh Scrutton, Thomas Mosser, and Gilbert Murray were unavailable for comment.
Who was he?
167 IQ mathematician who tried to warn the world about the dangers of technology and leftists.
He’s better known for his mail bombs.
Mathematician, bomber, original indawoods guy, victim of government sponsored psychological torture.
If you're actually interested, read his wiki, it's surprisingly neutral in tone after the intro.
After that his manifesto is an interesting read. There's a few decent YouTube breakdowns too
Dankula has done a Mad Lads about him.
FYI -
https://youtu.be/EE-dAerfrWk
"I have opinions about modern society. My conclusion: murder random people with explosives."
Rest in piss.
Your brain on leftist propaganda
Genuinely sad at his passing.
A complex figure to mourn for due to all the reasons we already know about. A prognosticator with a view that was sadly all too prescient.
He will be missed.