I loved this reasoning from a colleague, it unknowingly describes the need for Bitcoin and FOSS (free and open-source software) and OSH (Open-source hardware).

"Theodore Kaczynski's ideas are of special importance today, in a period of aggressive "digitalization" policies.

He not only opened the honeypot of ideological subversion (exposing how the fallacies of progressivism operate at the psychological level), he opened the great honeypot of technological subversion.

Here is my chaotic perspective on the matter

Civilization appeases the masses with food, shelter and entertainment (bread and circuses). The meek citizens depend on the state apparatus to survive, most of them are indebted for decades for living in pile-up substandard housing, forgetting other basic skills, denaturalizing themselves as citizens, settling under state plans of urbanism distributed in expensive "property titles", subjected to speculation. To obtain food, household appliances, or titles they are coerced to obtain "legal tender" as the only means of payment allowed. The source of fiat money offered by the system is the "regulated professions". The time saved by the washing machine is given to the system. The official curricula fragment knowledge, bureaucratize and control the "regulated professions", where competences are vetoed according to title, with no possibility of escape the tax agency confiscates at its whim taxing the trade, restricting the use of technologies, energy and alternative management of productive means. And if not, a fine.

There comes a point of regulatory escalation in which the system does not provide sufficient fiat or credibility to obtain the above three in reasonable quantity/quality. For this reason, the state apparatus sharpens its nose in search of gobbling up the liquid to become bigger. More revenue means more taxation and a considerable increase in data traffic, increasing the fiscal harassment on the population. Cell phones, smartphones, pocket screens allow this drift of Chinese-style population control. Worms, Netflix and metaverse.

The alternative to this dystopia is to regain control of technology (means of production), natural competences and control of currency, using technology as a means and not as the end of progress. An example would be rural self-sufficiency. There it makes sense to use small screens to monitor the perimeter by CCTV.”