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Riffing off of Nietzsche, you could say that the “sins” of industrialization and the technological era are inextricably bound up with its benefits. Think in terms of vast time periods of cosmic history. We’re apes who have pretty recently developed an intellect, it’s no wonder that in the short term we’re fucking it up. Our scientific development has far outpaced our moral and spiritual development. However, we’re way too far gone to just throw it all overboard as Kaczynski suggests. It may be that, ironically, this short term barbarism is paving the way for an eventual better age where we strike an enlightened balance between naive Enlightenment-idealism which holds technology inevitably makes everything better and equally naive Luddism, even if this future is thousands and thousands of years into the future, if not longer.