History Quotes / LuddWasRight

!!!RealLife
->''“Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.”''
-->--'''Bertrand Russell''', Sceptical Essays

->'''Calvin's Dad:''' Our lives are filled with machines designed to reduce work and increase leisure. We have more leisure than any man has ever had. And what do we do with this leisure? Educate ourselves? Take up new interests? Explore? Invent? Create?\\
'''Calvin:''' Dad, I can't hear this commercial.\\
''[[[GettingTheBoot Calvin is thrown outside]]]''\\
'''Calvin:''' If it were up to my dad, leisure would be as bad as work.

->''"''[[SelfFulfillingProphecy Justify its destruction, then destroy it.]]'' Whenever I see a surge in stupidity surrounding something new and potentially good for human progress, I know it’s being repurposed to fit into the global agenda. Tools for communicating, researching, organizing, and empowering people will be turned into [[LowestCommonDenominator idle pleasures and amusement]], or worse yet, a hub of [[{{Facebook}} pointless social competition]]. I feel sorry for those who think innovation will ever lead humanity to some new era of intelligence and social awareness. Hacktivists and crowdsourcing and cryptocurrencies and [=WikiLeaks=] are all proof...we’re not giving the elite much incentive to let us keep these freedoms, although mobile devices and the Internet are proving to be a wonderful at pacifying people too."''

->''"We have been through economic revolutions before, but the robot revolution is different. Horses aren't unemployed now because they got lazy as a species, they’re unemployable. There's little work a horse can do that do that pays for its housing and hay. And many bright, perfectly capable humans will find themselves the new horse... The unemployment rate during the great depression was 25%.\\\
This list above is 45% of the workforce."''
-->--'''[[http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/humans-need-not-applyc C.G.P. Grey]]''', "Humans Need Not Apply"

->''"Whether you are a factory worker or an accountant, a waitress or a doctor, this is the wave that will lift you or dump you...The rise of intelligent machines will spawn new ideologies along with the new economy it is creating. Think of it as a kind of digital social Darwinism, with clear winners and losers: Those with the talent and skills to work seamlessly with technology and compete in the global marketplace are increasingly rewarded, while those whose jobs can just as easily be done by foreigners, robots or a few thousand lines of code suffer accordingly."''
-->--'''[[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/the-robots-are-here-98995.html#.U-1k4KOwQg8 Tyler Cowen]]''', "The Robots Are Here"

->''"Nerds tend to talk a big game about standing up for the underdog but, I’m sorry to say, don’t seem to really want a leveling of society, a removal of hierarchies. They bristle against hierarchies of [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem physical strength]], of [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney inherited capital]], and of '[[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections popularity]]'—but only because those get in the way of a hierarchy of book smarts and technical skill, which is [[MoralMyopia the right and proper hierarchy]]. The creepy nerd fantasy that remains alive and well in today’s Age of the Nerd Triumphant is not of making peace with the popular kids but taking their throne... I distrust the message we keep getting about the democratizing power of the Internet and New Media, about how progressive the Millennial Generation is.\\\
I distrust my fellow young nerds. I distrust techies when they bear gifts."''
-->--'''Arthur Chu''', [[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/01/occupying-the-throne-justine-tunney-neoreactionaries-and-the-new-1-percent.html "Occupying the Throne"]]

->''“Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.''”''

->''"All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization -- is like the axe in the hand of [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the pathological criminal."''

->''"All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization -- is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal."

->''"Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power."''

-->--Albert Einstein

!!!Quotes from works

!!!Quotes from RealLife

->''"Unbelievers in religion who think science can save the world are possessed by a fantasy that’s far more childish than any myth. The idea that humans will rise from the dead may be incredible, but no more so than the notion that 'humanity' can use science to remake the world...Myths can’t be verified or falsified in the way theories can be. But they can be more or less truthful to human experience, and I’ve no doubt that some of the ancient myths we inherit from religion are far more truthful than the stories the modern world tells about itself."''
-->--'''John Gray''', philosopher

->''"Whether you are a factory worker or an accountant, a waitress or a doctor, this is the wave that will [[TheSocialDarwinist lift you or dump you]]...Those with the talent and skills to work seamlessly with technology and compete in the global marketplace are increasingly rewarded, while those whose jobs can just as easily be done by foreigners, robots or a few thousand lines of code suffer accordingly."''
-->--'''Tyler Cowen''', [[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/the-robots-are-here-98995_Page2.html#.U8kAdkCmU1I "The Robots Are Here"]]

->''"If we're thinking on a remotely big picture level, the fact that depression appears to exist as a recognized problem only among technologically and economically 'advanced' western people should be a big honking warning sign."''
-->--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2011/05/climbing-starting-blocks-gremlins-ii.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->''"If you want level-headed advice about preparing for [[MillenniumBug a global crisis]], who better to turn to than a nude photographer who [[ButIPlayOneOnTV played a space creature on TV?]] ...It starts with Creator/LeonardNimoy scolding the ancient [[{{Atlantis}} Atlanteans]] for their hubris. This is to create a context for what comes next: this is all ''your'' fault, mankind. Your lazy dependence on transistors is what caused all this in the first place."''
-->--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/10-real-survival-guides-one-very-fake-apocalypse/ "10 Real Survival Guides For One Very Fake Apocalypse"]]

-->--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/10-real-survival-guides-one-very-fake-apocalypse/ "10 Real Survival Guides For One Very Fake Apocalypse"]]

-->-- ''CalvinAndHobbes''

-->-- '''Tyler Durden''', ''{{Fight Club}}''

-Calvin is thrown outside.-\\

-> In the world I see... you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.