McLuhan is a reactionary who is mostly known for his sensationalist statement "the media is the message". The real ideologue of the anti-technique narrative is Ellul. In Ellul, the christian roots of this anti-technique discourse are clearly visible, though not in his main three works about technique. McLuhan represents the American viewpoint which has been integrated into the corporate and alternative discourse. Ellul is the old continental Euro opinion with old Anarchist sensibility.
There is one very clear link with Indian Sajaists- Vijay Prasad's unambiguous endorsement and childish fascination with Kaczynski's ramblings. Kaczynski had been brooding over Ellul but gave his "manifesto" a peculiarly American twist by bringing in a major rant against liberals and how they subvert the normal impulses of self-survival. Ellul himslef would never generalize about supposed liberal and conservative divisions but would see them as faces of the same "system" aka technique. I suspect that many Sajaists deem these lines of anti-technique works to be the most revolutionary. I think these guys like Prasad project the type of technical "system" described in Ellul (western system of racism for the less technically inclined) to the "brahminical" "caste" "Hinduism" "oppressive" "fedal" "systems" in India. This is western "manifesto" culture which we are dealing with and will have to cope with. Manifesto culture was clearly visible in luther's antics.
There is one very clear link with Indian Sajaists- Vijay Prasad's unambiguous endorsement and childish fascination with Kaczynski's ramblings. Kaczynski had been brooding over Ellul but gave his "manifesto" a peculiarly American twist by bringing in a major rant against liberals and how they subvert the normal impulses of self-survival. Ellul himslef would never generalize about supposed liberal and conservative divisions but would see them as faces of the same "system" aka technique. I suspect that many Sajaists deem these lines of anti-technique works to be the most revolutionary. I think these guys like Prasad project the type of technical "system" described in Ellul (western system of racism for the less technically inclined) to the "brahminical" "caste" "Hinduism" "oppressive" "fedal" "systems" in India. This is western "manifesto" culture which we are dealing with and will have to cope with. Manifesto culture was clearly visible in luther's antics.