From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 19:02:09 MDT
"Robert.Fish" wrote:
>
> I guess he had a manifesto of sorts - posted here:
> http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/lhletter1.html
>
> Doesn't sound specifically luddite, but similar.
I'd say more than just similar. Here are some relevant passages:
Page 1:
"Everyone knows earth has its problems. The longer the mass fails to
understand the longer suffering will occur for plants, animals, human,
and Earth. We all suffer to certain degrees, weather it's mental or
physical, and technology contributes to making many daily activities
easier, however you in turn become dependant on the technology, and when
something becomes broken, added pressures arise and the negative
emotions/suffering occurs.
Technology and complexity will never satisfy your desire of avoiding
suffering..."
Page 2:
"As long as greed persists, people will desire to capitalize, in turn
forcing people to slave away."
The rest is a rather typical pothead dogma of belief in astral
projection and other New Age vending machine spiritualism. While this
fellow certainly isn't a trained luddite commando, nor as intellectually
erudite as Ted Kazinski, nor sponsored by a luddite group, he is
certainly a loose cannon produced by left wing subjectivism.
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