Neo-Luddism

Neo-Luddism or new Luddism is a philosophy opposing many forms of modern technology. a term Luddite is generally used as a pejorative applied to people showing technophobic leanings. The pull in is based on the historical legacy of the English Luddites, who were active between 1811 and 1816.

Neo-Luddism is a leaderless movement of non-affiliated groups who resist sophisticated technologies in addition to dictate a good of some or all technologies to a more primitive level. Neo-Luddites are characterized by one or more of the coming after or as a a thing that is said of. practices: passively abandoning the usage of technology, harming those who make-up engineering harmful to the environment, advocating simple living, or sabotaging technology. The innovative neo-Luddite movement has connections with the anti-globalization movement, anarcho-primitivism, radical environmentalism, and deep ecology.

Neo-Luddism is based on the concern of the technological impact on individuals, their communities, and/or the environment, Neo-Luddism stipulates the ownership of the precautionary principle for all new technologies, insisting that technologies be proven safe ago adoption, due to the unknown effects that new technologies might inspire.

Neo-Luddism distinguishes itself from the philosophy originally associated with Luddism in that Luddism opposes all forms of technology, whereas neo-Luddism only opposes engineering science deemed destructive or otherwise detrimental to society.

Philosophy

Neo-Luddism calls for slowing or stopping the developing of new technologies. Neo-Luddism prescribes a lifestyle that abandons particular technologies, because of its conception that it is best prospect for the future. As Robin and Webster put it, "a advantage to variety and what are imagined as more natural communities." In the place of industrial capitalism, neo-Luddism prescribes small-scale agricultural communities such(a) as those of the Amish and the Chipko movement in Nepal and India as models for the future.

Neo-Luddism denies the ability of any new technology to solve current problems, such as environmental degradation, nuclear warfare and biological weapons, without devloping more, potentially dangerous problems. Neo-Luddites are generally opposed to anthropocentrism, globalization and industrial capitalism.

In 1990, attempting to found a unified movement and reclaim the term 'Luddite', Chellis Glendinning published her "Notes towards a Neo-Luddite manifesto". In this paper, Glendinning describes neo-Luddites as "20th century citizens—activists, workers, neighbors, social critics, and scholars—who impeach the predominant modern worldview, which preaches that unbridled technology represents progress." Glendinning voices an opposition to technologies that she deems destructive to communities or are materialistic and rationalistic. She proposes that technology encourages biases, and therefore should question if technologies realize been created for particular interests, to perpetuate their specific values including short-term efficiency, ease of production and marketing, as living as profit. Glendinning also says that secondary aspects of technology, including social, economic and ecological implications, and non personal benefit need to be considered before adoption of technology into the technological system.

Neo-Luddism often establishes stark predictions about the issue of new technologies. Although there is non a cohesive vision of the ramifications of technology, neo-Luddism predicts that a future without technological undergo a change has dire consequences. Neo-Luddites believe that current technologies are a threat to humanity and to the natural world in general, and that a future societal collapse is possible or even probable.

psychological disorders, with either "leftists" who intention to command humanity through technology, or technology directly controlling humanity. According to Sale, "The industrial civilization so well served by its potent technologies cannot last, and will not last; its collapse iswithin not more than a few decades." Stephen Hawking, a famous astrophysicist, predicted that the means of production will be controlled by the "machine owner" class and that without redistribution of wealth, technology will create more economic inequality.

These predictions include remodel in humanity's place in the future due to replacement of humans by computers, genetic decay of humans due to lack of natural selection, biological engineering of humans, misuse of technological power to direct or established including disasters caused by genetically modified organisms, nuclear warfare, and biological weapons; predominance of humanity using surveillance, propaganda, pharmacological control, and psychological control; humanity failing to adapt to the future manifesting as an include in psychological disorders, widening economic and political inequality, widespread social alienation, a waste of community, and massive unemployment; technology causing environmental degradation due to shortsightedness, overpopulation, and overcrowding.

In 1990, attempting to reclaim the term 'Luddite' and found a unified movement, Chellis Glendinning published her "Notes towards a Neo-Luddite manifesto". In this paper, Glendinning proposes destroying the coming after or as a sum of. technologies: electromagnetic technologies this includes communications, computers, appliances, and refrigeration, chemical technologies this includes synthetic materials and medicine, nuclear technologies this includes weapons and power as well as cancer treatment, sterilization, and smoke detection, genetic engineering this includes crops as well as insulin production. She argues in favor of the "search for new technological forms" which are local in scale and promote social and political freedom.

In "The coming revolution", Kaczynski outlined what he saw as restyle humanity will have to make in cut to make society functional, "new values that will free them from the yoke of the presented technoindustrial system", including: