NED LUDD WAS RIGHT!
By Venomous Butterfly
The machine IS the enemy.
Smash it without mercy!
Don't
tell me technology is neutral. Every day I wander this city, and
every day
machines flash lights trying to
tell me what to do. Huge tarmac pathways cross
my
way, upon which gigantic, speeding metal machines move, machines
capable of
killing me if I cross their
path and already slowly suoffocating me with their
toxic
fumes which fill the air.
WHY SHOULD I
TOLERATE THIS INSANITY?
NED LUDD WAS
RIGHT!
The machine is the enemy.
SMASH IT WITHOUT MERCY!
Around
me stand tall buildings, -- ugly monstrosities of steel and glass
and
concrete, overpowering in their
hugeness and sterility. I dream of them as ruins
being
eaten by a forest. But for now, these structures--the products of
machines--house other machines. Machines on
which the lies by which society
defines
my life--and the lifes of everyone--are recorded, and which, with
electronic blips and flashes, can transmute the
lies and so control our lives.
I WANT TO
SMASH THE LIES!
NED LUDD WAS RIGHT!
The machine is the enemy.
SMASH
IT WITHOUT MERCY!!
And all of this did
not appear from nowhere. The roads, the cars, the traffic
lights, the skyscrapers, the computers could not
exist if, every day, the lives
of
millions were not eaten by the factories. Machines control their
daily
activity, determining their
movements, eating up their time, to produce more
machines. Their only respite comes when the
machines which control them break
down --
or when they break them down. Then for a moment, they are not
machines.
Don't tell me technology is
neutral--I'm not blind enough to buy that one!
NED
LUDD WAS RIGHT!
The machine is the enemy.
SMASH IT WITHOUT MERCY!!
Can't
you see? Each little machine -- each car, each computer, each
factory,
each worker -- is not a separate
entity, a mere individual tool. NO! They are
all
cogs in one vast machine, the machine of social reproduction --
and if we
let them be, we too are cogs,
the gears that manufacture society. Will you be a
mere
cog, a gear, a tool of social order?
TO
HELL WITH THE SOCIAL ORDER AND ITS PHYSICAL BODY: TECHNOLOGY!
NED LUDD WAS RIGHT!
THE
MACHINE IS THE ENEMY!
SMASH IT TO POWDER
WITHOUT A GRAIN OF MERCY!!!!!
And from the dust, a billion flowers bloom