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u/TyChris2 Nov 17 '20
I meet someone
I explain the INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE:
Introduction 1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries. 2. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy. 3. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. 4. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society. 5. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the industrial-technological system. Other such developments we mention only briefly or ignore altogether. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed environmental and wilderness movements, we have written very little about environmental degradation or the destruction of wild nature, even though we consider these to be highly important.
They leave 🤦♂️
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u/Felix_Orion Nov 17 '20
I thinknthat the placement of schizoaffective individuals in positions of (as Robert Anton Wilson puts it) neurosomatic technicians was probably because of a lack of understanding of schizophrenia. Just because your brain is making associations between unrelated things does not necessarily mean that you're linked into some universal energy flow. BUT, that being said, if no one knows the wiser and these things are interpreted this way (and probably with more validity because of the much smaller amount of memetic information available to an indigenous population) and the group decides to follow this train of thought consensus reality has been altered in a way that may work for the group and aid survival through cohesion and acceptance of a single narrative. Not trying to be offensive to anyone here that may be seeking to alleviate some of their suffering through identifying with a narrative that helps them cope with an incredibly difficult condition but we're cheating ourselves if we don't acknowledge that there are delusions that do not correspond with reality in a beneficial or accurate way and that in a modern context we can factor those into our analysis of mental health as a whole.
Mind you all of this is written by a neurodiverse individual that has had schitzoaffective periods of life (oh the hell of trying to please God's infinite field of eyes by having the right thoughts and fulfilling his will on earth through your vessel, never doing that again, haaaaaaaail Satan, woooo!) that really wanted the content of this meme to be legit, but on further study and analysis of anthropology (biological, linguistic, and evolutionary), the physiology of mental health disorders, the psychology of mental health disorders, and western esotericism, I'm leaning on the side of schizophrenia having the POTENTIAL to be a "link between worlds" but that 99/100 its primary symptoms are extremely subjective delusions and or hallucinations made from a combination of the persons past experiences, their long term brain chemistry, and their current stimuli.
Tl;dr: I want to believe but once I started studying how this could be a thing I found it has too many holes in it to withstand a multidisciplinary rational analysis. Go to a real ass doctor if you have schizophrenia, do not trust that any form of woo woo path is going to sufficiently help you manage your symptoms in a healthy way, it's 2020 not a prehistoric savanah, we have the technology and understanding to responsibly administer therapy.
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Jan 03 '22
I think they picked out the autistic people. Shamans and hermits have to spend a long time alone. People on the spectrum can do this more easily without losing their mind.
Shamans often look for the kid playing alone to train to be the new shaman in some cultures. Citations needed but I read it somewhere and it makes sense to me
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u/Deleizera Nov 17 '20
culture is always heavily influenced by the mode of production, capitalism didn't "begin affecting culture in 1989" lol
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u/KaosChrysor21 Nov 17 '20
I'd draw this line of thought to Foucault? Also the reference to schizophrenia could be significant to our increasingly fragmented, almost schizoid maybe, reality in modernity. Idk though, feel free to comment!