Dialectics of Decline

Dialectics of Decline

Rage Against the Machines is Justified

A Defense of the Luddites

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Apr 10, 2025
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No one wants to to be called a Luddite. When someone slings this pejorative at you it means that you are old fashioned, reactionary, anti-modernist. It conjures up the image of the guy who still has a rotary phone and uses a typewriter, who hates any and all new technology due to fear and hatred of the unknown. The Luddite is cast as an out-of-touch bul…

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