“Industrial Society and its Future”: the writings of the Unabomber
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#2I was intrigued by "Industrial Society and its Future" by Ted Kaczynski after watching the "Manhunt" series on Netflix. As a techno-optimist it helped me put my feet on the ground. If you're like me, I can recommend the book. Not a fan of books? Read my blog post.
Re: “Industrial Society and its Future”: the writings of the Unabomber
#3I was intrigued by "Industrial Society and its Future" by Ted Kaczynski after watching the "Manhunt" series on Netflix. As a techno-optimist it helped me put my feet on the ground. If you're like me, I can recommend the book. Not a fan of books? Read my blog post.
I urge anyone who reads Kaczinski to dive into Jacques Ellul. Kaczinky was heavily inspired by his writing. I studied Ellul for around 2 years and I can't say that it didn't effect my whole attitude on "Tech as a solution" for our problems. I certainly understood (although I don't condone) why Kaczinsky did what he did:
The Technological Society: https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci...
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes: https://archive.org/details/Propaganda_201512
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#4Direct link to the manifesto:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...
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#5The guy was a fruit cake and his manifesto is nonsense scapegoating, just because technology can create some problems does not mean thats the unibombers point, he didn't have one and his manifesto shows that.
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#6I was intrigued by "Industrial Society and its Future" by Ted Kaczynski after watching the "Manhunt" series on Netflix. As a techno-optimist it helped me put my feet on the ground. If you're like me, I can recommend the book. Not a fan of books? Read my blog post.
By "book", I assume you mean the 38-page manifesto or is there additional literature?
I also read the manifesto after watching manhunt and its concepts deeply resonated with me. And to think how much deeper technology is ingrained into our society today compared to when he wrote it.
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#7The guy was a fruit cake and his manifesto is nonsense scapegoating, just because technology can create some problems does not mean thats the unibombers point, he didn't have one and his manifesto shows that.
I mean, I and anyone I've ever spoken to about it, along with what I see as the the general consensus, thinks it's pretty clear that his point was "technology bad".
Why do you say he in fact didn't have a point?
For example, ctrl+f "technology"
> The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict [...etc]
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#8The guy was a fruit cake and his manifesto is nonsense scapegoating, just because technology can create some problems does not mean thats the unibombers point, he didn't have one and his manifesto shows that.
Something tells me, you didn't actually read it.
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#9Another "How to get a FBI file in just one click!" post.
But I suppose I should be more open minded. Just because someone famously does wrong does not mean everything they say is wrong, right?
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#10The guy was a fruit cake and his manifesto is nonsense scapegoating, just because technology can create some problems does not mean thats the unibombers point, he didn't have one and his manifesto shows that.
>fruit cake
That's a homophobic slur.