Talk:Luddite

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Sorry

Sorry about the grammatical error. Thanks for fixing it. Researcher 10:47, 30 September 2008 (EDT)

question: The term now commonly refers to those acting with foresight and insights far beyond the comprehension of most other folks around. -- I thought a Luddite was someone who did *not* act with foresight and insight beyond comprehension. I though people who disliked and actively avoided technology were the ones termed, "Luddites". help, thanks! :-)--En attendant Godot_{"«Nous naissons tous fous. Quelques-uns le demeurent.»} 11:51, 30 September 2008 (EDT)

I rather think the author of the article was trying to be provocative.--Bob^{bing up} 12:16, 30 September 2008 (EDT)

Thanks Bob. Carptrash 13:00, 30 September 2008 (EDT)

Don't copy and paste from Wikipedia

@Bryan See, please don't copy and paste from Wikipedia. How to not plagiarize.

ClickerClock (talk) 04:19, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

I know. Because I'm here to discredit the growing anti-tech movement, headed by both Trump and Putin. -- Bryan See (talk) 04:59, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Colloquial usages

There are the colloquial modern usages 'X is a bit of a Luddite - doesn't use (speaker's preferred technology)' and 'I'm no Luddite but... (I can't see the point of this technology/it is making my life more difficult').'

Is it being Luddite to use the term Luddite to describe the modern situation (given that it is two centuries old)? Anna Livia (talk) 10:17, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Questionable sentence

However, their extremist methods brought the contempt of wider society, and likely discredited their case completely.

We don't really have much data as to how popular their actions were with British workers at the time, do we? Most of the Luddites, and British workers in general, were illiterate, so I find it questionable that we can take the sentiment of the rich (who were literate, and had institutional power to spread anti-Luddite propaganda and affect policy as to deal with Luddite activism) as being equivalent to the sentiment of "wider society." Carthage (talk) 20:00, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

The is evidence that Luddites were popular at least in the areas in which they operated, in so far as at times having the support of other tradespeople who were not directly involved in the textile industrialization, as well as the sympathy of more progressive elements of the upper classes (Lord Byron and Mary Godwin). As I noted some of the Luddites were literate: they wrote letters to the press that were contemporaneously reprinted. They knew what was going on in Parliament, which the Tories dominated at the time. I haven't finished the Blood in the Machine book yet, so I don't know if there was ever popular backlash. It's reasonable to delete that sentence since there's no citation (I didn'te write it). Bongolian (talk) 20:31, 8 September 2024 (UTC)