and we're live. What's going on Aaron? Same old shit man, how you been? Good man, you want to dig into Uncle Ted here and see what he has to say?

Read me a bedtime story.

Oh man, this is better than a bedtime story

because he's, I mean, he's just a beast, you know, I mean, because I think anyone, I think a lot of people are going to learn some stuff tonight.

That's for sure, because if they haven't read him before, I'm not really sure exactly what they'd be expecting so let's just do it all right I'm I'll start reading okay?

All right sounds good

All right. Introduction.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

We could stop.

We can stop.

We can stop. Go ahead.

Yes, so far, so good.

I'm 100% on board without even having to go any further. It's, um, yeah, it's, it's so funny how when people read that like out of context, think oh we have air conditioning and we have all

this and that's not what he's talking about so yeah let's keep going to

yeah it really At what cost? Yeah, really, at what cost.

They have greatly increased the life expectancy of those of us who live in advanced countries,

but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings

to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering in the third world to physical suffering

as well, and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world.

The continued development of technology will worsen the situation.

It will certainly subject human beings to greater

indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world. It will probably

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