Excellent article, there is always need for some unpleasant facts to remind people how big miracle was the Industrial Revolution, an how delusionary are all "trad" dreams about old times, regardless whether from "left" or "right".
Fact that industrial and technological development and life of unlimited freedoom of wild tribal rider/raider are two great tastes, that, unfortunately, do not go well together.
industrial and technological development and life of unlimited freedoom of wild tribal rider/raider are two great tastes, that, unfortunately, do not go well together
You are wrong sir, they in fact are extremely related. As cowboys and indians, as sailors and pirates, as zulu and tommy. The man of the frontier is the man of the frontier. An unrivaled pragmatist who will use the most advanced technology in the pursuit of his primal unconstrained ends. And thus, Freedom™.
He is a tragic figure destined to be tamed and ultimately destroyed by society and civilization, through his own work, but it is slander to say that primal raider and sophisticated technologist don't go together when art and history are brimming with examples of the paradoxical merger between these two.
Who was creating these top of the line designs? People standing behind machines 12+ hours/day, doing exactly what they were told to the tiniest detail, watched by boss and foremen all the time - life that people like Geronimo would see as much worse than death.
John Moses Browning, whom I'm not sure I'd call so detached from the frontier given he was raised in Utah and spent years as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I do take your point, the frontier only exists because it's being propped up by civilization and its surplus. Though I do not see that as a contradiction.
Freedom in itself, as Burnham's Machiavellians point out, is a transitory state we only occupy when the inevitable lust of power for more of itself hasn't yet been satiated. A state that is always fated to come back as power saps itself in a doomed bid for control.
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Excellent article, there is always need for some unpleasant facts to remind people how big miracle was the Industrial Revolution, an how delusionary are all "trad" dreams about old times, regardless whether from "left" or "right".
And there is another fact unpleasant to OP and his ideology - fact that Industrial Revolution began, after people like OP were massacred, hanged, beheaded, burned alive in their huts and deported to West Indies to die.
Fact that industrial and technological development and life of unlimited freedoom of wild tribal rider/raider are two great tastes, that, unfortunately, do not go well together.
You are wrong sir, they in fact are extremely related. As cowboys and indians, as sailors and pirates, as zulu and tommy. The man of the frontier is the man of the frontier. An unrivaled pragmatist who will use the most advanced technology in the pursuit of his primal unconstrained ends. And thus, Freedom™.
He is a tragic figure destined to be tamed and ultimately destroyed by society and civilization, through his own work, but it is slander to say that primal raider and sophisticated technologist don't go together when art and history are brimming with examples of the paradoxical merger between these two.
Geronimo used top of the line Browning designs.
Exactly my point. Using, not creating.
Who was creating these top of the line designs? People standing behind machines 12+ hours/day, doing exactly what they were told to the tiniest detail, watched by boss and foremen all the time - life that people like Geronimo would see as much worse than death.
John Moses Browning, whom I'm not sure I'd call so detached from the frontier given he was raised in Utah and spent years as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I do take your point, the frontier only exists because it's being propped up by civilization and its surplus. Though I do not see that as a contradiction.
Freedom in itself, as Burnham's Machiavellians point out, is a transitory state we only occupy when the inevitable lust of power for more of itself hasn't yet been satiated. A state that is always fated to come back as power saps itself in a doomed bid for control.
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