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Ted Kaczynski's Manifesto [pdf]

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Post by anonymousiam »

I always appreciated Ted's insight into the bad things about technology. His manifesto is well written and makes a strong case. However, I could never understand how he gets from pointing out that technology has some harmful side-effects, to believing that his conclusion is a justifiable rationale for murdering people.

Re: Ted Kaczynski's Manifesto [pdf]

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Post by jdhn »

anonymousiam wrote: post #2

I always appreciated Ted's insight into the bad things about technology. His manifesto is well written and makes a strong case. However, I could never understand how he gets from pointing out that technology has some harmful side-effects, to believing that his conclusion is a justifiable rationale for murdering people.

I would say that perhaps writing the paper itself was the spark that he needed to begin bombing people. From the fourth paragraph in the paper: "We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence;"

Re: Ted Kaczynski's Manifesto [pdf]

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Post by Simulacra »

Need some help. A friend of mine who is blind studies society and technology. He has wanted to read this for some time, but we've not been able to find an audiobook version. Does anyone know if there is an audio reading of this?

Re: Ted Kaczynski's Manifesto [pdf]

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Post by unwoundmouse »

Simulacra wrote: post #7

Need some help. A friend of mine who is blind studies society and technology. He has wanted to read this for some time, but we've not been able to find an audiobook version. Does anyone know if there is an audio reading of this?

There's gotta be some quality pdf reader online. A quick search yields an Adobe product

https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/reader.html

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Post by aswanson »

anonymousiam wrote: post #2

I always appreciated Ted's insight into the bad things about technology. His manifesto is well written and makes a strong case. However, I could never understand how he gets from pointing out that technology has some harmful side-effects, to believing that his conclusion is a justifiable rationale for murdering people.

Same. He made some interesting points philosophically re: our growing dependence on technology and its implications.

Re: Ted Kaczynski's Manifesto [pdf]

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Post by zulgan »

jdhn wrote: post #4
anonymousiam wrote: post #2

I always appreciated Ted's insight into the bad things about technology. His manifesto is well written and makes a strong case. However, I could never understand how he gets from pointing out that technology has some harmful side-effects, to believing that his conclusion is a justifiable rationale for murdering people.

I would say that perhaps writing the paper itself was the spark that he needed to begin bombing people. From the fourth paragraph in the paper: "We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence;"

hmm i am not sure that is the case, (though i only watched the netflix series, and read the manifesto, so i am not very familiar with his life), but i thought it is more a gesture of helplessness.

There is a saying in my country, that is hard to translate in English, but it goes something like: powerlessness births violence.

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