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Re:Why are we so pessimistic? by nostrademons on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @03:33AM (#20210465)
The Unabomber Manifesto talks about very similar themes. He kinda made a bad name for himself with the whole "killing people" thing, but a lot of his complaints about alienation, the "power principle" and need for struggle, and the feeling that individual freedom is being subsumed under an over-arching technocratic system echo things you might read on HN today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...

Re:Why are we so pessimistic? by raxxorrax on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @03:55AM (#20210549)
Pretty smart guy but enslaved by his own fatalism. I do think time will prove him right to a degree, but it won't be the end of civilization as often inferred.

Still worth a read if you are able to separate it from the murder he committed. I wonder if the press would still release manifestos like this today. My government would not and by doing that ironically works towards what he saw as a threat.