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> ... flabbergasted by how thoroughly the Luddites were defeated. Like, not only was the movement defeated in its time, but the word itself “Luddite” was taken over by, you know, capitalists and industrialists who mean anti-progress and anti-technology in kind of a blind, ignorant way. Like, that level of defeat–even at the level of a language–is kind of hard to fathom.
#RomanMars on #LudditeMovement while talking about #BloodInTheMachine by #BrianMerchant
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