The Unabomber Manifesto
Brilliant Madman's Essay on Technology, Society, and the Future of Humanity
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The Unabomber Manifesto
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Narrateur(s):
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Jim D. Johnston
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Auteur(s):
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Ted Kaczynski
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On September 19th, 1995, the New York Times printed an essay by a known terrorist in a desperate attempt to stop his string of civilian bombings.
The newspaper’s editors dismissed “The Unabomber” as a lunatic, but his essay soon began to capture the attention of the world’s wisest political minds. As The Atlantic wrote: “[The essay] was greeted...by many thoughtful people as a work of genius.”
"Reprehensible for murdering and maiming people...but precisely correct in many of his ideas.” (Keith Albow, author and psychiatrist)
“If it is the work of a madman, then the writings of many political philosophers - Jean Jacques Rousseau, Tom Paine, Karl Marx - are scarcely more sane." (James Q. Wilson, professor of political science, UCLA)
“[He] was right about one thing: technology has its own agenda.” (Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of WIRED)
As the decades have passed since the essay was published, the truth behind the author’s warnings have become harder to ignore.
Predicting society’s present addiction to technology, our challenges with data privacy, and the dramatic increase in drug overdoses and depression that have accompanied a technology-induced lack of purpose, The Unabomber’s vision of the future has become our reality.
Of course, his means were disgusting and condemnable. But his message is more important than ever.
If we want to thrive in an age where automation and artificial intelligence and rapidly making humans obsolete, it is our responsibility to understand and prepare for the technological machine we are up against.
©2019 Ted Kaczynski (P)2021 Ted KaczynskiMadman created in Madness
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This essay is from the 1990s, so it is important to understand the temporal context of his views and how they relate to the 2020s. Of course, we can all relate to living in a world where the system plays with our lives and dictates how we live, one way or another. We all know there is a serious existential threat to the human race that is driving us towards stagnation and self-destruction, but we all have different answers on what the causes and solutions are.
This essay is the anarchist perspective to what the problem is and how to fix that problem, which is essentially world revolution and the reversion back to artisanal lifestyles out of our own homesteads. Of course this reflects Ted's personality as a loner who lives out in the woods, but you don't necessarily have to believe in this ideal yourself to understand that there will always be multiple factions vying to gear the world in different directions with the best of intentions.
Ted does manage to frame key social issues in such a way that they are still relevant today, especially with his descriptions of leftists and their pseudo-revolutionary activism. My main criticism is that Ted clumps leftist activists, like those we see all the time today, with socialist dictatorships and calls them all communists- when in fact, these are three very different groups altogether. However, he wrote this early on after the end of the Cold War, so the distinction wasn't as obvious as it is now. My other criticism is that Ted did not get anywhere near as deep in describing right wing revolutionary activism, and I suspect that he possibly felt that he represented that as an anarchist, although anarchism inherently has nothing to do with the left-right dichotomy, especially if you just want to live alone in the woods.
I don't know if Ted was ever able to update this thesis in all his years in prison, I'm not an expert on the subject. Nothing in this essay necessarily explains what he did that got him in prison, other than the vague notion that revolution requires violence (which is a notion that goes back to Marx's concept of primitive accumulation in Das Kapital), so if you're looking for a biography, this isn't it. However, if you are interested in modern revolutionary treatises, then this is worth the read.
A Contemporary Anarchist Treatise
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Agreed with many points
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