>>1625024I like Ted's conclusions about technology and government systems being a form of self-propagating system, in that they will always function in a way that causes them to continue to exist (from his book Anti-Tech Revolution Why and How). If a system, like a government, takes actions that will not allow it to self-perpetuate, other systems (government or otherwise) will step in to the vacuum, and essentially be the new self-perpetuating system. This process is uncontrollable, as each self-prop system has the incentive to continue advancing technology, as any self-prop system attempting to become sustainable or limit it's technology in some way will be supplanted by a self-prop system that chooses not to do that.
Ergo, you cannot get away from technology and it's ever increasing effects without ultimately destroying all self-perpetuating systems in such a way that they cannot be formed in any meaningful way. This means that all you can do to hold back technology from eventually being able to kill everyone on the planet (as any rocket engine capable of moving to another planet can do, or any sufficient number of nuclear weapons, or whatever) is to, without exception, destroy everything in society that is not 100% sustainable at an 1800's level of technology.
Since this is not possible, it's just fun to know that humanity is on a clock.
