While this was an informative post, I do not think that most people are totally unaware of the main thrust of the argument here. Most people understand we need electricity to live. I think the issue here is that there is not a recognition of the limitations and cons of industrial society. And they are many. While undoubtedly industrial civilization has produced great material benefit, it is debatable whether human beings are actually happier today than they were a century or a millennium ago.
Let's take one point, for example. Industrial civilization ... (read more)
I don't want to straw your view of abortion based on this post alone, but
abortion certainly happened in more dangerous ways before current chemical
abortions in industrial civilization, still does, and your view may or may not
change if you yourself were pregnant against your own decision, none of which
seems to be considered here.
but I do love to talk about how rational economic competition necessarily pits
workers in a community against each other into competing for qualification, into
a union, which all else has the utmost monetary incentive to eat alive (WV Coal
Wars at the least charitable, gradually stemming to equally 'effective' social
and legal action)
I kept a list of all the books people added since this was last updated in this
comment
[https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-textbooks-on-every-subject?commentId=DvBpm66aKSz6PuWE3],
it's currently fully updated.
While this was an informative post, I do not think that most people are totally unaware of the main thrust of the argument here. Most people understand we need electricity to live. I think the issue here is that there is not a recognition of the limitations and cons of industrial society. And they are many. While undoubtedly industrial civilization has produced great material benefit, it is debatable whether human beings are actually happier today than they were a century or a millennium ago.
Let's take one point, for example. Industrial civilization ... (read more)