The idea that an ideology or theoretical work, no matter how much of a meme, should be not discussed due to “terrorism” is a cop out. The right response is condemning the work for being the insane drivel of an edgelord with no good ideas
Uncle Ted makes some solid points:
There is no law that says we have to go to work every day and follow our employer’s orders. Legally there is nothing to prevent us from going to live in the wild like primitive people or from going into business for ourselves. But in practice there is very little wild country left, and there is room in the economy for only a limited number of small business owners. Hence most of us can survive only as someone else’s employee.
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society.
sh**tting in the woods away from people, and it should be noted that Ted was an incredible misanthrope with no social life like his fans, is not an ideal lifestyle for most people. Also the current way we treat depression is ages overdone and not an original idea.
Face it, you either get involved in change in society or have two things happen; the fellow neurosis of the individuals involved kills the project through a neurodivergent death spiral, or the dominant forces kill your commune or encroach on “the pristine” the disassociated individuals have at that moment. All the lessons you can read on the great takedowns of utopia seekers in
The Holy Family by Marx and Engels or
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels. Because it is clear the Young Hegelian materialism adopted by the counterinsurgency section of academia isn’t working.