We advocate a revolution against the industrial system that may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. I live in a shack and follow back. All posts from my manifesto.https://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lxmuvb23y223Psychologists use the term "socialization" to designate the process by which children are trained to think and act as society demands. A person is said to be well socialized if he believes in and obeys the moral code of his society and fits in well as a functioning part of that society.30 Aug 2025 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxmuvb23y223https://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lxmuuox7ks23Leftists may claim that their activism is motivated by compassion or by moral principles, and moral principle does play a role for the leftist of the oversocialized type. But compassion and moral principle cannot be the main motives for leftist activism.30 Aug 2025 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxmuuox7ks23https://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lpeyemhiv52nThe leftist is anti-individualistic, procollectivist. He wants society to solve every one’s problems for them, satisfy everyone’s needs for them, take care of them.17 May 2025 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpeyemhiv52nhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lpeydamaln2nLeftists say they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them.17 May 2025 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpeydamaln2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lnawoo3uok2jA considerable proportion of the system’s economic and environmental problems result from the way human beings behave. Alienation, low self-esteem, depression, hostility, rebellion; children who won’t study, youth gangs, illegal drug use, rape, child abuse, other crimes...20 Apr 2025 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnawoo3uok2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lkjiwzj5as2eThey will need more and more training, more and more ability, and will have to be ever more reliable, conforming, and docile. Their tasks will be increasingly specialized, so that their work will be, in a sense, out of touch with the real world, being concentrated on one tiny slice of reality.16 Mar 2025 20:43 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkjiwzj5as2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lkjagsksj227The Industrial Revolution was supposed to eliminate poverty, make everybody happy, etc. The actual result has been quite different. The technophiles are hopelessly naive (or self-deceiving) in their understanding of social problem.16 Mar 2025 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkjagsksj227https://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lkirpubpsk2pIt is naive to think it likely that technology can be phased out in a smoothly managed, orderly way, especially since the technophiles will fight stubbornly at every step. Is it therefore cruel to work for the breakdown of the system?16 Mar 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkirpubpsk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lke4mh2tnk2kIt is one thing to develop in the laboratory a series of psychological or biological techniques for manipulating human behavior and quite another to integrate these techniques into a functioning social system.14 Mar 2025 17:19 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lke4mh2tnk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lke4lrrrpc2kScience and technology constitute a powerful mass movement, and many scientists gratify their need for power through identification with this mass movement.14 Mar 2025 17:19 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lke4lrrrpc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lk47djjohk2yIf a change is made that is sufficiently large to alter permanently a longterm historical trend, then it will alter the society as a whole. You can’t permanently change any important part of society without changing all other parts as well.11 Mar 2025 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk47djjohk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lk47cayokk2yIf a trend were not stable with respect to small changes, it would wander at random rather than following a definite direction; in other words it would not be a long-term trend at all.11 Mar 2025 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk47cayokk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3ljzr7iqevc2jThose who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect” terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any “oppressed” group but come from privileged strata of society.10 Mar 2025 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljzr7iqevc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3ljzr6jrms22jLeftish anthropologists go to great lengths to avoid saying anything about primitive peoples that could conceivably be interpreted as negative. They want to replace the word “primitive” by “nonliterate”10 Mar 2025 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljzr6jrms22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3ljx6bgsg4o2fIt should not be assumed that a person has enough freedom just because he says he has enough. Freedom is restricted in part by unconscious psychological controls, and many people’s ideas of what constitutes freedom are governed more by social convention than by their real needs.09 Mar 2025 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljx6bgsg4o2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3ljvbkog3as2zDoes the cheap electricity generated from nuclear power outweigh the accumulating waste and the risk of accidents? Edward Teller thought it did. I do not.08 Mar 2025 19:38 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljvbkog3as2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3ljvbhtd4wk2zEven if most people in industrial-technological society were well satisfied, I would still be opposed to that form of society,because it is demeaning to fulfill one’s need for the power process through surrogate activities and being part of an organization rather than through pursuit of real goals.08 Mar 2025 19:36 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljvbhtd4wk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3ljicje5qsc2cTechnical advances taken together have created a world in which the average man’s fate is no longer in his own hands but in those of politicians, corporation executives and remote, anonymous technicians and bureaucrats whom he as an individual has no power to influence.03 Mar 2025 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljicje5qsc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3ljfr534hvc27Even if a code of ethics were chosen on a completely democratic basis, the majority would be imposing their own values on any minorities who might have a different idea of what constituted an “ethical” use of genetic engineering02 Mar 2025 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljfr534hvc27https://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3ljaw6iz6nc22Some people may have some exceptional drive, in pursuing which they satisfy their need for the power process. For example, those who have an unusually strong drive for social status may spend their whole lives climbing the status ladder without ever getting bored with that game.28 Feb 2025 17:21 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljaw6iz6nc22https://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lj6jaekfus25If the Founding Fathers had lost their nerve and declined to sign the Declaration of Independence, maybe we would have had somewhat closer ties to Britain, and would have had a Parliament and Prime Minister instead of a Congress and President. No big deal.27 Feb 2025 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj6jaekfus25https://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lj3zncbswk2hA reform movement designed to clean up political corruption in a society rarely has more than a short-term effect; sooner or later the reformers relax and corruption creeps back in. The level of political corruption in a given society tends to remain constant.26 Feb 2025 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj3zncbswk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lj3zm2runc2hConstitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what might be called the bourgeois conception of freedom.26 Feb 2025 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj3zm2runc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lj3zliby7k2hIf we had never done anything violent and had submitted the present writings to a publisher, they probably would not have been accepted.26 Feb 2025 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj3zliby7k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3liu2ib4yik2gMany modern people have neverput their physical powers to any practical use; they have never gone through the power process using their bodies in a serious way. If your need for the power process has been satisfied during your life will prepare you to accept the end of that life.23 Feb 2025 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3liu2ib4yik2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3limjilnzak26Freedom means having power; not the power to control other people but the power to control the circumstances of one’s own life20 Feb 2025 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3limjilnzak26https://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lijxm5g66c25Industrial-technological society cannot be reformed in such a way as to prevent it from progressively narrowing the sphere of human freedom but “freedom” is a word that can be interpreted in many ways.19 Feb 2025 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lijxm5g66c25https://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lijxkdbn2s25Science is a surrogate activity because scientists work mainly for the fulfillment they get out of the work itself.19 Feb 2025 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lijxkdbn2s25https://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lihfzvrya22vOur use of mass entertainment is “optional”: No law requires us to watch television, listen to the radio, read magazines. Yet mass entertainment is a means of escape and stress-reduction on which most of us have become dependent.18 Feb 2025 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lihfzvrya22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/cousinted.bsky.social/post/3lihfytft5k2vOur society tends to regard as a “sickness” any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system, and this is plausible because when an individual doesn’t fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system.18 Feb 2025 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:ntrrk7ym4l4jrex76cdvo4fk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lihfytft5k2v