Kaczynski Was Right
UncleTed Kaczynski’s IQ: 167
Harvard admission: At 15
Youngest ever math professor- UCB: At 25
Money spent by FBI to find him: $50+ mil
The manifesto….
14 best insights from a Philosopher-
1/ Kaczynski lists the 4 big problems with modern civilization:
– “Excessive density of population”
– “Isolation of man from nature”
– “Excessive rapidity of social change”
– “The breakdown of natural small-scale communities such as the
extended family, the village, the tribe..
2/ The big difference between the primitive civilization and our
contemporary world is that before, individuals had a lot of
autonomy while the state was largely powerless to penetrate into
the everyday life of people
Kaczynski argues that modern tech suddenly flips this balance
3/ The balance of power between individuals and the larger
“system” flipped when machines made much of human labor obsolete
while simultaneously allowing big corp and big govt to observe,
track, exclude (social media bans, stripping away bank accounts)
4/ Ted writes:
“The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man’s
environment..it is to be expected that as technology is
increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will
be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have
been.”
5/ With robots doing most work will people find work in “service
industries”?
Kaczynski says no
People will reject the “pointless busywork” of “driving each other
around, making handicrafts, waiting on tables” and embrace
dangerous outlets: “drugs, crime, cults, hate groups”
6/ Kaczynski against Leftism:
“Leftism is in the long run inconsistent with wild nature, with
human freedom and with the elimination of modern technology.
Leftism is collectivist; it seeks to bind together the entire
world (both nature and the human race) into a unified whole.”
7/ Kaczynski devotes a large chunk of his manifesto attacking
leftism
But in a powerful paragraph, he argues that the conservatives are
fools too
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8/ The system knowingly destroys intimate bonds between people
because it wants to SOAK UP all the loyalty and energy of
individuals for itself
Kaczynski writes: “The technological society HAS TO weaken family
ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently.”
9/ A “democracy” with advanced tech is less free than a
“dictatorship” with primitive technology
A low tech society has “no rapid long-distance communications, no
surveillance cameras, no dossiers of information about the lives
of average citizens”
Easier to evade control
10/ Can we go back to small-scale communities?
Kaczynski says no because we are “enmeshed with and dependent on
large-scale systems like public utilities, computer networks,
highway systems, the mass communications media and the modern
health-care system.”
11/ How to rebel
Step 1: CHAOS
Kaczynski:
“We must work to heighten the social stresses within the system so
as to increase the likelihood that it will…be weakened
sufficiently so that a revolution against it becomes possible.”
First weaken the system you want to destroy
12/ Step 2: Let the propaganda begin
Kaczynski: “Develop and propagate an ideology that opposes
technology and the industrial system”
This will ensure that “when industrial society breaks down,” it
stays broken
Particularly important that “technical books” be burnt
13/ Step 3: RETVRN TO NATURE
Nature is Kaczynski’s “counter-ideal to technology” because it is
self-contained, “beautiful,” and already has “tremendous popular
appeal”
The technological civilization must expand wastefully to survive,
is ugly, and is largely despised
14/ Kaczynski on the importance of aims:
“Secure aristocracies that have no need to exert themselves
usually become bored, hedonistic & demoralized, even though
they have power. This shows that power is not enough. One must
have goals toward which to exercise one’s power.”
NEVER LET THEM TAKE YOUR SMILE… |