/lit/ - Literature

>>16655642
The most successful American speeches of all time say "we", "us", "Americans", "American people". People want to belong to an ingroup, and these speeches make the best use of that knowledge

It is a great tool of rhetoric to use to our advantage.

>>16655642
basic subterfuge, most likely. people will probably present it as indicative of mental illness because they're retarded.

If you were to commit terrorist bombings, would rather pretend you are a scary ultra-sekrit organized group, or would you begin your manifesto with "Hi my name is Ted K, I live in Montana, and let me tell you why I think the industrial society is bad"?

>>16655711
would you rather**

Are you guys retarded?
It's normal in academic papers. Look it up.

Because he was Anonymous.
We do not forget. We do not forgive. We are a legion.

>>16655776
>peer reviewed terrorist manifesto

>>16655790
It's literally written in the style of a doctoral thesis back when Ted wrote his

MK Ultra does funny things to a man

>>16655790
>>16656167
Based

It makes sense in his most recent work as he was in need of help of some people oitside of the supermax. So it wasn't a book written by him alone

>tfw driven past the Supermax in Colorado numerous times

I miss you ted

Where am I even supposed to continue after reading this? It basically refutes every other work in political theory and it would be pointless to read something like Marx after being tedpilled, right? I pretty much started with him and now it feels like I misses out on everything else for good

>>16655642
I think he was probably of the mind that a lot of people were going to pick up and run with his manifesto and that he'd have some kind of posthumous following.

>>16656349
Anti-Tech Revolution and Technological Slavery.

Or you can start with Ellul's Technological Society -- which is critical of Communism/Marxism in part because it, also, sees technology as a god. Ted was also privy to Ellul's work.

>>16656358
>Anti-Tech Revolution and Technological Slavery
Read both, still don't know how to cope

>>16655642
To avoid getting caught. He thought that it would obfuscate his real identity. Unfortunately for him, women are evil and cannot be trusted, so his brother's wife convinced his brother to sell him out.

>>16656349
land?

>>16656839
Lmao no

>>16655642
To scare people into thinking there was some movement behind his beliefs, probably in the hope that a movement would then form. Fake it til you make it.

>>16656349
>>16656358
I read all three and what they try to tell you is that no amount of books will help you cope. Among other things

>>16657641
That's what they tell you, and judging by how impressionable most people on here seem to be it's likely that statement is taken for absolute Truth.

>>16657641
>>16657669
Ok but there must be some other form of cope, r-right??

>>16657737
Depends on who you ask. If you genuinely buy into everything Ted says, every last word, and have to stop yourself from doing anything at all during the day because you guilt yourself into thinking of it as a surrogate activity, I can't imagine you'll ever live a life free of anxiety or uncertainty if you're not mailing bombs yourself, part of a movement or made your conscious self completely subservient to the things you've already read.

>>16657813
Which part of his work do you disagree with?

>>16658623
Everything since he's a sad little incel lol

>>16658623
I haven't read him too much but I've never been entirely on board with the surrogate activities part in ISAIF due to how wide and damning a net he casts. That said I refrain from making extreme comments on those I haven't properly 'researched'. A lot of the people who talk about him are very transparent propagandists/shills, and some make claims that amount to never reading any books except what Ted wrote then doing your part, that is to say spreading the message and telling others to do the same.