neo-Luddites
book review by Tim Harford
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Tim Harford:
Say what you like about Lord Byron, he knew how to turn a phrase. Here he is, speaking in the House of Lords in 1812. His topic is the foolishness of the factory-storming, machine-breaking Luddites: “The rejected workmen, in the blindness of their ignorance, instead of rejoicing at these improvements in arts so beneficial to mankind, conceived themselves to be sacrificed to improvements in mechanism.”*
sarcasm alert: Byron supported the Luddites*
2023-05-30 / notes
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it’s clear to anyone paying attention to the state of the planet and of the people on it that Homo sapiens must adapt or go extinct in this (anthropogenic) sixth extinction (!?)
to adapt means to let go of illusions and to adopt universal selflessness, universal peace, universal love, universal education, universal healthcare, and UBI (!?)
/ “To state the task plainly is to see how hard it is likely to be.” (!g)
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