The Art Bell Archive

April 5, 1996: Technology, Violence, & the IRS - Open Lines


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Callers explore connections between advancing technology, increasing societal violence, and growing conflicts between citizens and government agencies like the Internal Revenue Service. The discussion covers whether rapid technological change contributes to social alienation and violent behavior among individuals who feel displaced or threatened by modernization and automation. Callers share personal experiences with IRS enforcement actions and debate whether federal tax collection methods have become increasingly aggressive, unconstitutional, and detached from due process protections. The conversation examines how advancing technology enables both greater government surveillance capabilities and more sophisticated resistance strategies by anti-government groups and tax protesters. Callers discuss whether the Unabomber's anti-technology manifesto contains valid warnings about the dehumanizing effects of technological progress on human society and individual psychology. The program explores psychological impacts of information overload, job displacement through automation, and erosion of traditional communities by technological change and global economic forces. Tax protest movements and constitutional challenges to federal authority receive extensive discussion from callers with personal experience in these conflicts. This open-lines format provides a forum for examining whether multiple societal problems stem from fundamental misalignment between technological capabilities and human psychological needs.
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