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Plight of the Luddite (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by drayv to c/comicstrips

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Luddites were anti-oligarch, not anti-technology.

Don’t regurgitate propaganda from the parasite class.

[–] big_slap 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

hmm, looking up the word on Wikipedia shows how the word Luddite now means what the comic is depicting:

Nowadays, the term "Luddite" often is used to describe someone who is opposed or resistant to new technologies.

In 1956, during a British Parliamentary debate, a Labour spokesman said that "organised workers were by no means wedded to a 'Luddite Philosophy'." By 2006, the term neo-Luddism had emerged to describe opposition to many forms of technology. According to a manifesto drawn up by the Second Luddite Congress (April 1996; Barnesville, Ohio), neo-Luddism is "a leaderless movement of passive resistance to consumerism and the increasingly bizarre and frightening technologies of the Computer Age".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Most of the time, language evolution is harmless. Not this time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

looking up the word on Wikipedia shows how the word Luddite now means what the comic is depicting

I guess the propaganda was a huge success, then

[–] big_slap -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

idk, I think words eventually take new meaning. no need to bring propaganda into this imo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Propaganda is the reason the word took on that meaning.