Kirkpatrick Sale’s 7 Principles

1. Technologies are never neutral, and some are hurtful
   
2. Industrialism is always a cataclysmic process, destroying the past, roiling the present, making the future uncertain.
   
3. "Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines."
   
4. The nation-state, synergistically intertwined with industrialism, will always come to its aid and defense, making revolt futile and reform ineffectual
   
5. But resistance to the industrial system, based on some grasp of moral principles and rooted in some sense of moral revulsion, is not only possible but necessary.
   
6. Politically, resistance to industrialism must force the viability of industrial society into public consciousness and debate
   
7. Philosophically, resistance to industrialism must be embedded in an analysis – an ideology, perhaps – that is morally informed, carefully articulated, and widely shared