Author Topic: Western civilization = sustainable evil  (Read 8325 times)

bondburger

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Re: Is Counterculture Still Alive?
« Reply #135 on: August 24, 2022, 06:34:34 pm »
Excellent 2010 video from The Onion mocking the needless cruelty and pointlessness of Western animal testing.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CJkWS4t4l0k

Reminds me very much of the experiments in "Learned Helplessness" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness#Early_experiments) in which animals were subjected to repeated painful stimuli with no ways of making it stop until they lost hope and were conditioned to just accept the pain. I first heard of these experiments a few years ago from Kaczynski's writings, in which he claims the technological-society conditions humans similarly in regards to psychological suffering. One thing that his mostly-rightist followers never comment on though is the cruelty of the experiment itself. Nobody remotely empathetic needs the results and implications of the experiments to be disgusted by technological progress, the fact that such experiments can be conducted at all is disgusting enough.