It's also in line with arguments made by Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber)
> Why must everything collapse? Because, [Kaczynski] says, natural-selection-like competition only works when competing entities have scales of transport and talk that are much less than the scale of the entire system within which they compete. That is, things can work fine when bacteria who each move and talk across only meters compete across an entire planet. The failure of one bacteria doesn’t then threaten the planet. But when competing systems become complex and coupled on global scales, then there are always only a few such systems that matter, and breakdowns often have global scopes.
crazy how much he was right. if he hadn't gone down the path of violence out of self-loathing and anger he might have lived to see a huge audience and following.
I suppose we wouldn't know whether an audience for those ideas exists today because they would be blacklisted, deplatformed, or deamplified by consolidated authorities.
There was a quote last year during the "Twitter files" hearing, something like, "it is axiomatic that the government cannot do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly".
Perhaps ironically, I had a difficult time using Google to find the exact wording of the quote or its source. The only verbatim result was from a NYPost article about the hearing.
>I suppose we wouldn't know whether an audience for those ideas exists today because they would be blacklisted, deplatformed, or deamplified by consolidated authorities.
Be realistic, none his ideas would be blacklisted. They sound good on paper, but the instant it's time for everyone to return to mudhuts and farming, 99% of people will return to Playstations and ACs.
He wasn't "silenced" because the government was out to get him, no one talks about his ideas because they are just bad. Most people will give up on ecofascism once you tell them that you won't be able to eat strawberries out of season.
"would be blacklisted, deplatformed, or deamplified by consolidated authorities"
Sorry. Not true. You have Black Swan (Taleb) and Drift into Failure (Dekker) among many other books. These ideas are very well known to anyone who makes the effort.
The only thing that got Unabomber blacklisted is that he started to send bombs to people. His manifesto was dime a dozen, half the time you can expect politician boosting such stuff for temporary polling wins.
Hell, if we take his alleged (don't have vetted the genealogy tree) cousins, his body count isn't even that impressive.
> Why must everything collapse? Because, [Kaczynski] says, natural-selection-like competition only works when competing entities have scales of transport and talk that are much less than the scale of the entire system within which they compete. That is, things can work fine when bacteria who each move and talk across only meters compete across an entire planet. The failure of one bacteria doesn’t then threaten the planet. But when competing systems become complex and coupled on global scales, then there are always only a few such systems that matter, and breakdowns often have global scopes.
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/kaczynskis-collapse-theoryh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Tech_Revolution