The Unabomber Manifesto
Brilliant Madman's Essay on Technology, Society, and the Future of Humanity
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Narrated by:
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Jim D. Johnston
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Written by:
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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.
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- John Bearhead
- 2023-06-14
Madman created in Madness
Although he murdered, his message is one of change and thought. He never claims to have the answers but instead leaves it up to the reader to glean their own opinion from the proposition society has given us.
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- Beaver Fever
- 2023-06-25
A Contemporary Anarchist Treatise
To sum this essay up, Ted's thesis is that freedom and technological industrialization of society are incompatible as the latter leads to dictatorship. He describes this dictatorship as being the "system", which is basically a central organization/bureaucracy (aka the state) that can even transcend nationstates, or rather could be summed up as the superstate. For much of this essay, I felt that it was a precursor to the fictional dystopia of Huxley's "Brave New World", and I am sure that Ted was familiar with it.
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.
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- Alex C
- 2024-08-18
Agreed with many points
I found myself agreeing with a lot of the points the author made. Clearly I do not agree with the things he did (killing people) and nor do I agree with the prescription (get rid of all technology) but he does diagnose the problem correctly. The way forward cannot be to return to the stone age.
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- Mark 45
- 2023-02-06
Madman
The man was a murderer. He was very intelligent. But a murderer non the less.
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