Does the Future Suck?

[@BinaryDood]

"Technological revolution without social revolution will only exacergabte the vices of the system which came before it" comes to mind. Problem is things are moving too fast for the old organs of society to adapt and make sure they don't disrupt it completely. You need only read the (now multiple) e/acc manifestos to know what the mindset and ethos behind a lot of people releasing these distabilizng technologies are. And it aint pretty.

[@Phd366]

I love this type of channels. I’m so glad I found you! It is current but also the deeper meaning of things. Love it! ❤ I really hope you keep going and growing. 😊

[@GreatBooksProf]

I'm working on it! Thanks for the encouragement!

[@laljohnkhuptong2110]

Thank you for making it easy and comprehensive.

[@GreatBooksProf]

Thanks for watching!

[@filmandmediastudieschannel]

Great video! Thought you were going to go the direction of Dialectic of Enlightenment, so now I'm curious how Arendt's ideas on progress differ from Adorno and Horkheimer's...

[@guillermoperis1673]

True, both are escapist. HOWEVER, if the futurist possibility actually came true, we would all be even MORE ISOLATED than today through technology (which is a lot to say). If the trad dream came true out of choice (as it is possible today), we would all be more connected. The difference is roots.

[@wburris2007]

The self driving car is already safer than the majority of human drivers. You still need to pay attention, because of those rare cases where it will do the wrong thing, but mainly so you can't successful sue Tesla is something does go wrong.

[@stutzpunkt]

Goddamn! Your channel is excellent

[@GreatBooksProf]

@@stutzpunkt Thanks! I hope you enjoy the other videos.

[@TheRealNickG]

You came really close but never did actually go into a discussion about the relationship between technology and power, in the Foucauldian sense (probably because you've dropped his name so much in the past, you're still picking it up haha). Yes, a sense of control, but the way this new technology in particular makes power a "black box" that must "just be conformed to". Sort of like the sea of styles of angst toward heavy machinery and the the frontiers of mastering steel and steam produced a particular style of writing and topics for philosophy, a particular anxiety of this post modern shift is arising where the need to feel good about our technology and hauntological idealism ("reduce, reuse, recycle", "just say no", etc were all supposed to be solutions to problems, remember that?). Above all, once you are in the new and awesome gilded cage, I mean age, you are not really allowed to not participate or the power of the state, which is now partially behind the black boxes we are forced to interact with, will find ways to sanction you (credit score, professional standing, social media, etc).

[@stutzpunkt]

Go birds. Glad you didn’t die and can talk to me over the internet 🎉

[@GreatBooksProf]

I'm glad too! Big win today! #FlyEaglesFly

[@andrewmarkmusic]

I blame Hegel...

[@GreatBooksProf]

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[@me-nah3343]

Both of these movements are a response to modernity. But Trad-stuff is against social progress. It’s less of a neo-Luddite thing. It explicitly reacts to social progress, not tech. At least the stuff I’ve seen. They want regressive gender roles. And yeah, it’s about control and coping.

[@GreatBooksProf]

Social progress is, I think, it’s more explicit target. You’re right that the gender role stuff is its core tenet. But when you watch the parenting dynamics, it’s pretty clear there is a tech component as well. The young have wooden toys, and play outside, or help in the kitchen. Nobody has video games. I think the social and the technological are married in these accounts. In order to turn back the clock, a kind of isolationism is necessary and that means no iPads… except for the purposes of content creation.

[@dorothysatterfield3699]

I think the target audience for both the Trad-Wife and the Cyber-Truck-Guy videos is bros who may look like adults on the outside but are perpetual 14-year-old boys on the inside. And, yes, it's about control.

[@philosophyoftrucking]

I don’t know any Cowboys fans that have lost their appendix. Coincidence?

[@GreatBooksProf]

@@philosophyoftrucking #FlyEaglesFly 🦅

[@Ano2nymou5]

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[@lionelchan1601]

I hate to be that guy... but who's this "we" white man? Yeah your vision roped the rest of us in to varying degrees, sure, and ultimately willingly. But it is your vision, your imposition, your confidence in it, and your limitations of listening to "global south" critiques of it.