Listening to this at the moment. I have always appreciated the neo-primitivist's critique of modern society if only as a counter to the incessant propaganda of the technology boosters.

Rather than regecting technology altogether I am more a fan of appropriate use. For example, in order to score brownie points on the world stage, my government is subsidizing electric vehicles. A better response would be to design urban areas in such a way that vehicle use is minimized.

From the podcast summary:

David Skrbina is a philosopher at the University of Michigan. He and Ted Kaczynski published the book Technological Slavery, which elaborates on the Unabomber manifesto and contains about 100 pages of correspondence between the two which took place over almost a decade. Skrbina discusses his and Kaczynski’s views on deep problems of technological society, and whether violent opposition to it is justified. [Cont...]

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