Aug 15, 2025
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My great grandmother had seven kids. Four of them survived. The others, 'the Lord took' when young. One to polio probably, which my surviving great aunt was stricken with. My aunt knows but does not speak the names of those dead great uncles and aunt.
“But while the Luddites lost their war, their case was always correct. That war was not fought against technology per se—what Lewis Mumford called ‘technics’. Most Luddites operated weaving looms themselves, and were quite comfortable with machinery. What mattered was who controlled it. They were fighting what they called ‘the factory system’—the destruction of lived freedom, and the regimentation of both body and soul. Like the Fen Tigers and the many unnamed people who have stood up against the onward march of dehumanising ‘progress’, General Ludd and his legions were fighting the monster from the desert, and their struggle was existential. If they could see us today, transfixed by our glowing screens, deskilled and dependent on oligarchs for permission to earn, eat and speak, with the factory system gone global and the Earth heating up from its exhaust, they might be permitted a grim smile.”
— Paul Kingsnorth: Against the Machine (pp. 51-52)
Walls / Central Avenue, Wichita, Kansas.
When do you consider "modern times" to have started?
After 2000
After World War 2 (1945)
After the start of World War 1 (1914)
When industrialism started to take off (ca. 1830s)
When liberalism started to take off (ca. 1789)
When nation states and science started to take off (ca. 1648)
When Protestantism started to take off (ca. 1517)
When European colonialism started to take off / Fall of Byzantium (ca. 1450s)
Before this (please specify)
Other (please specify)
Not sure
We have never been modern (Okay there Bruno)
"The “greater holy war” is a man’s struggle against the enemies he carries within. More exactly, it is the struggle of man’s higher principle against everything that is merely human in him, against his inferior nature and against chaotic impulses and all sorts of material attachments. [….] : “Know Him therefore who is above reason; and let his peace give thee peace. Be a warrior and kill desire, the powerful enemy of the soul.”"
Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World (1934)