In this talk I discuss how technology could possibly help people to return to traditionalism, but how the problem is a spiritual one, ultimately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age You can support this channel via Bitcoin: 17hC8dx5z545DTtEg9eddRQL2rpbEqsoJK

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1. Thanks for the response, it was interesting for me. Better we all find ways to overthrow the Globalist high low coalition of the NWO ;) Lack of spirituality is also why current attempts by Europeans government to implement pro natalist policies , especially that of the nationalist leaning regimes in Poland and Hungary are not working very well. Even young rightists are having difficulty really committing to rebelling against material comfort that modernity allows, even if that means forgoing children to a point where they only have one.
2. Have you seen Primitive Technology? That's what pure self-sufficiency looks like
3. I've been reading "The Four Futures" by Peter Frase. He's a Marxist and so disagrees with me at a basic level, but his insights into technology and social change are very interesting.
4. You should do a viewer hangout, id like to talk with you in person. You bring up some very interesting topics.
5. I say to may toe, you say to motto...
   
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6. 3d printing, cryto currencies and agorism are also all big hopes for the An-Cap community. Imagine a world where every individual could have robots that tend there own personal farms. where every tool you could possibly need you could create in your own garage and trade between individuals could be done with out a centrally controlled currency.
7. I love both The Diamond Age and Snow Crash, especially TDA.
8. This all sounds rather incredible. It's nice to think about for a few minutes, but ultimately the phantasm bursts upon contact with any kind of human experience.
   
   The only thing automation will allow to spring forth from mankind once he is freed from work, is the desire to kill his neighbour; this is what will run through the mind of a kenneled beast, or a pleb incapable of deriving any meaning from himself, or in a society that doesn't give him meaning.
   
   The conversation should be about how we're going to survive, and how we're going to go forward, and how we're going to try our very best to keep the pandora's box from opening so wide that we are flung full on into it's dizzying pit.
   
   Civilization is a human activity, it cannot run on machines alone. Machines that are not tools in the service of Man, are things that could potentially become dangerous. They either make us lazy, or, to go to the extreme lengths of artifical intelligence, could potentially kill us. There doesn't have to be any malice behind this; we are creating another race of beings, who will be competing with ourselves for resources.
   
   We need to stop desiring ease, and pleasure, and other bourgeois values, and stop trying to aim for these things as our goals as a species.
   
   Roman civilization wasn't built by people demanding equal rights and an end to world suffering. Rome was built by racists, elitists, extremists in the religious sense, by what we would now term patriots, or people who were indoctrinated in the absolute sense of themselves as a tribe with their own myth that guaranteed them their place in the universe.
   
   The world isn't such a vastly different place from what it once was, except materially; and the material and technological distactions need to be overcome if we are going to have a civilization built today that is the modern equivalent of Rome.
9. Social pressure from your hedonistic American peers are a massive factor in enslavement fills me with rage and I can do next to nothing about it
10. When your channel was new I asked if you to read Diamond Age and you hadn't at that point. I agree that it's a good book. There's other scifi along a similar theme. The Foundation series has some of the same themes as you talked about in this talk. There's Dune I'm sure you know about or have read. There's the Warhammer 40k books where man is in permanent decline and at racial holy war against all aliens. Warhammer 40k takes a lot of themes from Foundation along with many other scifi books but the grand theme of WH40k is Foundationesque
11. Another aspect that would compliment energy production and storage would be high-temperature superconductors for power transmission. In theory, a loss-free DC worldwide electricity grid could negate the need for advanced storage because it is always sunny somewhere.
12. I think that we should take a japanese model - I think that they mix modernity and the traditional life almost perfectly. Well.. at least some of them do.
13. it could be found in pdf on Google.
14. there is an interesting book for this topic called: archeofuturism
    written by Guillaume Faye a far- right French author, translated to English few years ago.
15. I don't think a full return to Amish style traditionalism would be desirable tbh, although If put in the situation I probably might grow used to it. But I actually disagree with technology, from here on in taking us further from traditionalism in a societal sense. Have you heard of  the uncanny valley effect? It's the idea that once human replicas or simulations get so real they are almost indistinguishable from reality, a lot of people feel revulsed and disengage. Barring a few exceptions I reckon that's pushed a lot of people like already away from really nihilistic things like virtual reality. It kind of reminds people that we have a desire to stay grounded, and that there's more to life than endless pleasure....to me that's kind of a mild foundation of Traditionalism..though it still fits into Modernity itself. In addition as we know we have political events that naturally push people into finding value in culture, ethnicity/tribe and nation. I also think that stronger social mores over things like smart phone use and video games will solidify as younger generations rise to parenthood and such. Automation reaching some finality would cause lots of unrest even with a UBI I've grown to think but I think by the time that hits that the population would be quite right leaning in many ways.
16. A technology that likely will have larger impact than anyone can imagine is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The obvious application is self driving cars but the general use is likely much larger. It's probable that a lot of white collar workers will be replaced by AI and trigger something akin to the IT-revolution of the 90's. A technological singularity might be likely at some point but imagining anything further than that is beyond human comprehension, I believe. That it will be anything resembling humanity is unlikely.
    
    One overrated technology is 3D-printing. It will always be a niche manufacturing method. It will, and has, opened up new markets but it won't replace traditional manufacturing methods such as injection molding, forging, extrusion, cold-formed steel, welding, etc.
    
    Another hype is decentralized energy. This is some kind of utopia dreamt up by the ecotards. The economies of scale when it comes to energy production are too huge to compete with on an individual level. Of course, anyone can go live off grid but it never comes without consequences. I'd rather bet on next generation nuclear fission reactors. They'll probably be smaller (50-250GWe) and modular to allow for assembly line production and won't use water as a moderator or coolant. Then they won't need a pressure vessel nor a huge containment building to further keep the costs down. Another prediction is that they won't appear in the western world at first, since the anti-nuclear lobby is too strong here. Maybe China will build them.
17. the spice must flow
18. Are we more prepared to colonize Mars then the pilgrims were to colonize America?
19. When you get rid of obligations, even the mundane day to day chores, you revert to a mental state of a child. Almost everyone I know does this (I too sometimes), except very few individuals, that are obviously driven by their passion and conviction in things they do.
    
    Most people view non-hedonistic use of free time as irrational and pathologic. I know a guy that is providing almost everything for his family, yet he is lambasted for his personal endeavors and passions that he pursues through hard work (beside his regular hard job).
    
    The whole argument about human creativity and free time sounds like some Marxist shite to be honest. If only we could pursue our dreams, and not be cogs in capitalist machine...yet people in developed nations never had more free time on their hands and the things they spend it on are trivial at best.
20. I think getting rid of contraception would go a long way
    Children are expensive, with many children per female traditional structures of life would be greatly encouraged.
    Technology could be used to solve the problem of surplus reproduction, most people could be made to fight to the death in a game called "Speedball", or they could go to some space colony, other options would include becoming a eunuch in the church or waging war against other races.