Professor Skrbina is probably best known for his close association with Ted Kaczynski aka the Unabomber. He worked on and helped Ted get his subsequent books and ideas out of prison and spread online [visit his website]. One of Skrbina’s own books caught my attention because of how novel the question that he posed in it seemed to me - how do we understand technology metaphysically? In our secular, material, and global society, nothing means anything in any higher sense because we simply don’t believe in metaphysics anymore. Funny enough, we attribute this change in human consciousness and perception of reality as a by-product of the rapid development and adoption of new technology. Is the death of the metaphysical in some way related to the development of technology?
Nowadays, many people are deeply uneasy about the rapid pace of technological development and the changes that result in society as result of its adoption. In recent years, vaccine mandates, 5G real-time surveillance grids, centralized digital currencies and so on are all high-tech tools of terror that are slated to be unleashed on the hapless peasant population by the tech-oligarchs very soon..
Skrbina and I discuss whether or not this is simply a fluke or a totally logical outcome of the development of technology, and whether or not we should go back in time to assassinate the guy who invented the first steam engine as a result!
Near the end of the interview, we got into a discussion of the depopulation agenda.
Skrbina took the position that the development of technology going forward was leading to rapid population growth and that a 90+% reduction in the world’s population was a desirable outcome to aim for to avoid planetary environmental catastrophe. In contrast, I took the view that the advance of technology has now decoupled from population growth and has actually cratered fertility in the developed world. I also take the view that the depopulation agenda is elite-driven and while I agree with the anti-tech position of Skrbina, I do not agree with any depopulation agenda that involves my people being reduced. If we are talking about depopulating, say, Africa, then alright, we can and probably should have that conversation.
But obviously, as a nationalist, I cannot support policies that target my own people. Especially when taking into account my strong-held belief that we have already been marked out as is for dhimmitude, democide and just destruction, frankly, by the global elites by the midpoint of this century.
Many thanks to Skrbina for coming on!
The Metaphysics of Technology w/ Professor David Skrbina