<story><title>Rethinking the Luddites</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>__loam</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>0dayz</author><text>Yes, but not everything needs to analyzed politically.&lt;p&gt;Nor making a political assumption about someone.</text></item><item><author>davidgoudet</author><text>Everything is political my friend.</text></item><item><author>0dayz</author><text>That is not what the prejorative mean, I don&amp;#x27;t see the point in making this political.</text></item><item><author>davidgoudet</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not pejorative for you if you are a liberal, for me it is pejorative, I see Luddites as people who damage important parts of production systems and threaten people&amp;#x27;s lives.&lt;p&gt;I understand your point of view if you&amp;#x27;re from a first-world country and you never experienced the terror of having people interfering with the means of production.</text></item><item><author>sakex</author><text>&amp;gt; Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation&lt;p&gt;Interesting, I never thought of the term as pejorative. I always thought of the movement as a kind of working-class heroes trying to navigate an uncertain future where rich people made them obsolete.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0dayz</author><text>I never stated nor insinuated that you shouldn&amp;#x27;t form opinions about &amp;quot;things&amp;quot;, my point was very clear about the fact that you don&amp;#x27;t need to _always_ analyze something politically and can instead analyze it differently or choose not to because it doesn&amp;#x27;t serve much interest or benefit for you, the community or society.&lt;p&gt;Unless you are willing to bite the bullet and agree then that we ought to analyze politically why a ball is round or why birds fly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Rethinking the Luddites</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>__loam</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>0dayz</author><text>Yes, but not everything needs to analyzed politically.&lt;p&gt;Nor making a political assumption about someone.</text></item><item><author>davidgoudet</author><text>Everything is political my friend.</text></item><item><author>0dayz</author><text>That is not what the prejorative mean, I don&amp;#x27;t see the point in making this political.</text></item><item><author>davidgoudet</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not pejorative for you if you are a liberal, for me it is pejorative, I see Luddites as people who damage important parts of production systems and threaten people&amp;#x27;s lives.&lt;p&gt;I understand your point of view if you&amp;#x27;re from a first-world country and you never experienced the terror of having people interfering with the means of production.</text></item><item><author>sakex</author><text>&amp;gt; Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation&lt;p&gt;Interesting, I never thought of the term as pejorative. I always thought of the movement as a kind of working-class heroes trying to navigate an uncertain future where rich people made them obsolete.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelZuo</author><text>Can you write down your analysis of the preceding comments for the benefit of the passing reader?</text></comment>