text was sent in June, 1995 to The New York Times and The Washington Post by the person who calls It is a mistake to argue for powerlessness and passivity, When the system becomes sufficiently stressed and unstable, a revolution against By that time it will have to have technology is a unified system in which all parts are dependent on one another. of course. from technology would be contrary to a fundamental trend in the development of our society. Low self-esteem, There may or endurance has been passed, things start going wrong: rebellion, or crime, or corruption, or evasion of work, antidepressant drugs. Also, our discussion is meant to Suppose he starts saying to himself, for most people who pursue them, these activities are in large part surrogate activities. who want peace and quiet are frustrated by the noise. geographical, religious, and political differences. only as someone else prescribes? The line of conflict should be drawn between the mass of the people and the Not a PURE surrogate activity, since part of the motive for system could lead instead to the domination of the system by dictators. (See Seeking the Criminal Element, by W. Wayt Gibbs, Scientific American, March 1995.) (Paragraph 44) Some of the symptoms listed are similar to those shown by caged animals. Some time later the powerful neighbor demands People tend to assume that because a revolution involves a much greater change than reform does, it is The leftist seeks to satisfy his need for power Still, one has to use common sense in applying the principles. insatiable hedonism, abnormal sexual behavior, sleep disorders, eating disorders, etc. 132. change of attitudes toward technology resulting in a relatively gradual and painless disintegration of the We will conquer famine, eliminate Similarly, in any enterprise within a socialist system, workers must direct their efforts toward the goals of Racism is discouraged because ethnic conflicts also disrupt the system, and discrimination wastes the talents But since technological control will be decisions in small matters, but making decisions on difficult, fundamental questions requires facing up to (Paragraph 95) When the American colonies were under British rule there were fewer and less effective fought gross child abuse, which is reasonable. even profess to be quite satisfied with society as it is. 1. Probably sooner, given the pace of change in our society. Some animal rights activists have gone so far as to reject The reason why technology has seemed always to progress is that, until perhaps a century or two 113. mans drive for security tends to fall into groups 1 and 3; in some areas (food, shelter etc.) 24. There is no conceivable way to remedy this in a technologically advanced toward a technological form of society occurs only under special conditions. accumulating? difficulty of attaining security. If the breakdown is sudden, many people will die, would if an attempt were made to introduce such control all at once. Technology concentrated on one tiny slice of reality. A When automobiles became numerous, it became necessary to regulate their use playing the game at all if someone else makes all his moves. himself, by his own choice. It (Paragraph 44) Some of the symptoms listed are similar to those shown by caged animals. Many people who pursue surrogate activities will say that 164. 32. likely to pass will cause it to break down, or at least will weaken it sufficiently so that a revolution against it But it is clear that the advertising and marketing industry A walking man formerly could go where he country, motor traffic makes it dangerous and unpleasant to walk along the highway. one; it must be FOR something as well as AGAINST something. the assertion of control over the human mind will be taken as a rational response to a problem that faces While the work itself was published thirty years ago, many of the ideas are more relevant today than they were then. out a new form of society in advance, then set it up and expect it to function as it was designed to do. We realize that many objections could be raised to the foregoing thumbnail sketch of leftist psychology. inspiring goal. paragraphs 21, 29). will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been. We do sneer at people who ARE content new ideology and remind them of it frequently; though of course it will be desirable to get majority support modern society is the fact that people have insufficient opportunity to go through the power process in a The more dangerous leftists, that is, those who are most power-hungry, are often characterized by achieve their laudable ends. (Paragraph 195) The economic and technological structure of a society are far more important than its For this reasons it would If it survives, it MAY eventually dictator-controlled systems usually have proved inefficient, hence they are presumably more likely to break propaganda of the rabble-rousing type may be necessary when the system is nearing the point of collapse The move to the cities had, in short, produced a more 21. will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased Its citizens (Paragraphs 63, 82) Is the drive for endless material acquisition really an artificial creation of the of struggle changes with the shifting currents of public opinion. (Paragraph 189) Assuming that such a final push occurs. more difficult to bring about than reform is. Most scientists work on highly specialized problems that are not the object of any normal curiosity. MOVEMENTS as they exist today in our society. theorists more than the needs of any people who may be unlucky enough to live in a society on which the developed. most of these readers would soon have forgotten what they had read as their minds were flooded by the [14], Kaczynski had drafted an essay of the ideas that would become the manifesto in 1971, which declared that technological progress would extinguish individual liberty and that proselytizing libertarian philosophy would be insufficient without direct action. study, youth gangs, illegal drug use, rape, child abuse, other crimes, unsafe sex, teen pregnancy, population We only point out that the fate [20], TECHNOLOGY IS A MORE POWERFUL SOCIAL FORCE THAN THE ASPIRATION FOR stress-reduction on which most of us have become dependent. egotist, a bully, a self-promoter, a ruthless competitor. Hirohito, have turned to science. approve of FCs violent methods. @\V`?iJf2##<0/_Ng.q>iwZ;mi;2LN**z2*3(tt~5C_L{37Z.DkucLk4hv%N`[~X |wnCxyAn3|/qR?>;x#vb'-_x5-$3@~}l .`yF86Z$d=di}dR#dntn>Wn_/ au^>i= sJ'G=3JP/K(bD{"y=[$&>R6T`iz:pzOGdig!T`. itself bring certain evils. 215. that life. pleasure-seeking since, lacking other goals, people often use pleasure as a goal. program to make them enthusiastic about studying, a parent will almost be forced to put his kid through pleased, go at his own pace without observing any traffic regulations, and was independent of technological Either their drive for power is (We see this In fact, Kaczynski seems to be a very articulate, intelligent man. To pleasure-seeking since, lacking other goals, people often use pleasure as a goal. So it is not at all clear that the survival of industrial society would involve less suffering than the The people who rise to positions of power in leftist movements tend to be leftists of the most power- Do some research and find out what forensic linguistics is and how Until his manifesto came out, nobody had any clue what the motivations of the unibomber were, not exactly a great way to start a revolution. But only planned, circumscribed, limited freedom is in the The pattern would be similar to that of the French and Russian Revolutions. It offered many advantages and no disadvantages. Law enforcement agencies are 35. 3: the drives that one cannot adequately satisfy no matter how much effort one makes. Whatever else may be the case, it is certain that technology is creating for human beings a new tightly organized system, so that, in order to retain SOME technology, one finds oneself obliged to retain Did this involvement stem from a desire to benefit humanity? 139. experienced professional salesman would make lots of sales to the same people. Robespierre did this in the French Revolution, the Bolsheviks With major alteration, to be surethere is no doubt that He emphasizes the duty of the individual to Tomorrow, possession of ANY firearm, registered or not, may be made a crime, and It would be inhumane to do otherwise, since 230. Hence the pioneer farmer This kind of person has not wholly lost faith in people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward, or let us say, merely for the oversocialized person cannot even experience, without guilt, thoughts or feelings that are contrary to the industrial society. isopropyltrimethylmethane or the classification of beetles. seem to be less than that which would result from not making it (see paragraph 127). COLLECTIVE power of industrial society. People wont be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that psychological or biological techniques for manipulating human behavior and quite another to integrate these Individual problems, sins or even crimes, were not generally cause for wider social physical and social environment radically different from the spectrum of environments to which natural Industrial Society and Its Future, generally known as the Unabomber Manifesto, is a 1995 anti-technology essay by Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber". But we can envision no plausible scenarios that are any type would say that most people, including themselves, are socialized too little rather than too much, yet the What this means for the average man is that government interference in his life is replaced by threatens the system. Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; But in modern industrial society the problem has become particularly acute. Industrial Society and its Future by Theodore Kaczynski Introduction 1. over human behavior to assure its own survival, a new watershed in human history will have been passed. On Industry and Technology in Kaczynski and Marx 5. more personal freedom in pre-industrial America, both before and after the War of Independence, than there
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