The machine IS the enemy.
Smash it without mercy!
Don't tell me technology is neutral. Every day I wander
this city, and every day
machines flash lights trying to tell me what to do. Huge
tarmac pathways cross
my way, upon which gigantic, speeding metal machines
move, machines capable of
killing me if I cross their path and already slowly suoffocating
me with their
toxic fumes which fill the air.
WHY SHOULD I TOLERATE THIS INSANITY?
NED LUDD WAS RIGHT!
The machine is the enemy.
SMASH IT WITHOUT MERCY!
Around me stand tall buildings, -- ugly monstrosities
of steel and glass and
concrete, overpowering in their hugeness and sterility.
I dream of them as ruins
being eaten by a forest. But for now, these structures--the
products of
machines--house other machines. Machines on which the
lies by which society
defines my life--and the lifes of everyone--are recorded,
and which, with
electronic blips and flashes, can transmute the lies
and so control our lives.
I WANT TO SMASH THE LIES!
NED LUDD WAS RIGHT!
The machine is the enemy.
SMASH IT WITHOUT MERCY!!
And all of this did not appear from nowhere. The roads,
the cars, the traffic
lights, the skyscrapers, the computers could not exist
if, every day, the lives
of millions were not eaten by the factories. Machines
control their daily
activity, determining their movements, eating up their
time, to produce more
machines. Their only respite comes when the machines
which control them break
down -- or when they break them down. Then for a moment,
they are not machines.
Don't tell me technology is neutral--I'm not blind enough
to buy that one!
NED LUDD WAS RIGHT!
The machine is the enemy.
SMASH IT WITHOUT MERCY!!
Can't you see? Each little machine -- each car, each
computer, each factory,
each worker -- is not a separate entity, a mere individual
tool. NO! They are
all cogs in one vast machine, the machine of social reproduction
-- and if we
let them be, we too are cogs, the gears that manufacture
society. Will you be a
mere cog, a gear, a tool of social order?
TO HELL WITH THE SOCIAL ORDER AND ITS PHYSICAL BODY:
TECHNOLOGY!
NED LUDD WAS RIGHT!
THE MACHINE IS THE ENEMY!
SMASH IT TO POWDER WITHOUT A GRAIN OF MERCY!!!!!
And from the dust, a billion flowers bloom.