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[dulouz]

1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in "advanced" countries.

2. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy.

3. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.

4. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence: it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can't predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society.

5. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the industrial-technological system. Other such developments we mention only briefly or ignore altogether. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed environmental and wilderness movements, we have written very little about environmental degradation or the destruction of wild nature, even though we consider these to be highly important.

[JongnoGuru]

Your manifesto! Oh, I remember it well. My favourite part was his attack on "surrogate activities" like bodybuilding and stamp-collecting. That one hurt!

[chiaa]

Heading to the Philippines on Thursday for my second trip there. I like the Philippines much better than Thailand. I found the Philippine people to be friendlier than the Thai. Always seemed to me that the Thai were only nice when they were getting money from you. Did not feel that way in the Pines. Of course both counties have their touts and beggars but this time I am going to try the approach of always having some fruit on me and giving that to them (especailly the kids).

My last trip I went over to Boracay. The place is really nice, but I did not get the feeling that I could roam around like I do in Samui. But, I did find it to be cheaper. I would recommend Boracay to someone for a three day max trip but would recommend Samui over Boracay for a longer period of time.

This time I am heading to Manila for three days and then to Cebu eventually ending up in the Leyte Gulf area. I want to see some WWII sites and there are two really nice (suppose to be) national parks right there. Hope to get in a couple of dives; perhaps take in one of the Thrasher shark dives.

Just my two cents

[dulouz]

As long as jeepnies exist as they do, the PI will never be considered a real country.

[mercury]

[gajackson1]

Puerto Galera . . .

'nuff sed.

~G.~

[Tiger Beer]

[I-am-me]

I might just become a jeepney driver in the philippines. Well, maybe an owner of several. Still researching if its a viable income.