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#125 The System's Neatest Trick - Theodore Kaczynski
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#125 The System's Neatest Trick - Theodore Kaczynski

Book Club From Hell · Levi MK and Jack BC

July 27, 20251h 42m

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Written in prison in 2002, The System's Neatest Trick is an essay from Kaczynski's Technological Slavery. In it, Kaczynski describes how 'the System' - more or less a technological society - redirects the popular frustration caused by its intrusions into human life, and its subversion of the power process. Where does it redirect this frustration? Into 'activist' causes, both as a pressure-release valve on popular discontent, and as a way to expedite the social changes required for an expansion of technological slavery.

Read The System's Neatest Trick here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-the-system-s-neatest-trick

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