books on the concept of "McDonaldization"?>t. had McDonalds yesterday, ironically enough
>>24740198The geography of nowhere by James Howard KunstlerSeeing like a state by James C. ScottLeviathan and its enemies by Sam Francis Not directly related but talk about the nature of the homogenization and dehumanization of society.
>>24740208welp, I own all of these, I guess I better get reading. any more you can throw at me?
>>24740231I guess the book the term comes from “The McDonaldization of Society”. I thought that was just something you made up to see what anons would say in response, i didn’t realize there was an actual book about it until i looked up the term. The unibomber manifesto would also probably be good. Everything else I know of doesn’t talk about this explicitly but things around it. The social and psychological and civilizational changes that facilitated a process under which this concept falls.
>>24740326>The unibomber manifestoThat’s more of an indictment against technology in general, Ted’s proposed solution is to go full Luddite which isn’t realistic.
>>24740326Anything that may extend the concept to international relations in terms of competing worldviews?
>>24740348I don't think Ted actually expected his luddite philosophy to catch on in his own lifetime. He was driven to a bombing campaign out of fear of falling into obscurity and nobody ever learning about what he thought was very important information for them to have. So rather than a true earnest attempt to sell his way of life, he shifted to keeping it in the public consciousness by any means necessary. If he had never become the Unabomber it's very likely nobody would even know that Industrial Society and its Future even exists. It's not widely read even now, despite everything he did to make it famous.
>>24740362Do you think that psychologically he was afraid of what Ernest Becker spoke of?
no one reads "jihad vs. mcworld" anymore? somehow i dodged getting assigned it in college but it was hot stuff during the bush era
>>24740364If you’re referring to the denial of death, yeah that’s hardwired into ISaiF. Ted’s biggest issue wasn’t with technology itself, but how every technological advance was automatically heralded as “good” by humanity, regardless of the ecological & social ramifications.
>>24740390>every technological advance was automatically heralded as “good” by humanityliterally no one does this but he was a failed mathematician and so hadn't read widely apparently
>>24740404>literally no one does thisActually, most people are cattle, abd they do this.
>>24740404What’s one technological achievement or breakthrough where society put its hand up and said “hey we might want to talk about this first”?There are plenty of instances where we look back and admit it was a bad idea but none where we get out ahead of it before the bad shit happens. It doesn’t matter if it’s a smart phone or an atomic bomb. We sprint headlong into the promise of shiny new stuff to ogle and play with cheering and pumping our fists. We’ve never been shown a mock-up of these things no matter how horrible or destructive they have the potential to be and refused to allow them to come into existence,
>>24740382It know its in the McDonaldization reader but I want something more contemporary
Explain how it is ironic that you went to McDonald’s yesterday and you are now posting about McDonald’s. I’ll wait.
>>24740472Maybe OP didn’t go to McD’s at all yesterday and he’s just having a laugh at all us rubes who bought it
>>24740430If you don't make it someone else will.
>>24740472>being this much of a pedantGo smoke a joint or something
>>24740491I will not go quietly into the night.
>>24740430>What’s one technological achievement or breakthrough where society put its hand up and said “hey we might want to talk about this first”?
>>24740430>What’s one technological achievement or breakthrough where society put its hand up and said “hey we might want to talk about this first”?nuclear energy. it's a clean carbon free unlimited energy source so naturally virtue signaling environmentalists teamed up with the fossil fuel industry to block it everywhere.
Why do I as an adult male still feel excited when I'm being brought McDonald's? Is the childhood conditioning really that powerful?
>>24740737>Is the childhood conditioning really that powerful?Insanely. Just look at homosexuality instilled by as little as an older man's hand fondling your genitals when you're in grade school.
>>24740360 No I don’t. Though that’s not difficult to reconcile. They’re all different paths to the same goal that developed as emergent phenomenon in their local context. Forgotten truth is a very good book that goes into death about that.
>>24740742>talks about McDonald's, which has burgers, a type of meat sandwich>first reply is about a sexual meatOnly on 4chinz
>>24740796The Huston Smith book?
>>24740198 (OP)Burgerpunk 2.0Just ask AI to help you write it already!
