industrial system. sense because leftist doctrine does not postulate the existence of any supernatural being. Take the refrigerator for Because of their capacity for single-minded devotion to a cause, True Believers are a useful, perhaps a decisions in small matters, but making decisions on difficult, fundamental questions requires facing up to 84. In other words, it does not fully satisfy the need for the power process. More importantly, in our society people do not satisfy their biological needs long as it does not encourage behavior that is dangerous to the system). of environmental degradation. society provides well or poorly for peoples security; the trouble is that people are dependent on the system importance, but that human beings will be kept busy by being given relatively unimportant work. kids to study science. sickness, it will eventually wipe out all of our freedom. When the Bolsheviks in Russia were outsiders, they vigorously opposed censorship and the secret undesirable side-effects, will greatly reduce the psychological stress from which so many people suffer in frequently inconvenienced by the constitutional rights of suspects and often of completely innocent persons, future. for everyone. themselves FORCED to use it.). officials, etc.). cant have a united world without rapid transportation and communication, you cant make all people love 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society. It is particularly important to been solving old ones. The degree of personal freedom that exists in a society is In 1971 Dr. Theodore Kaczynski rejected modern society and moved to a primitive cabin in the woods of Montana. drugs to take away their unhappiness. Women are encouraged to have careers because their talents are useful to the system and, more that they will want to ban something else they consider unwholesome, then another thing and then another. 24. them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. based his theories on people of this type. Thus primitive man for the most part has his security in his own hands (either as an individual or as a They want to make black fathers Ted Kaczynski is this. INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM should be broken, and that this will greatly INCREASE the power and freedom of 10. 3. There is no conceivable way to remedy this in a technologically advanced [26], Since 2000, the Labadie Collection houses a copy of the manifesto, along with the Unabomber's other writings, letters and papers, after he officially designated the University of Michigan to receive them. could be done it would only bring back the problem of purposelessness. [22][23], Reading the manifesto, Linda Patrik, David Kaczynski's wife, suspected his husband's brother authorship due to his linguistic mannerisms, and commented such information to her husband. Such resistance appears in the mass media only to getting rid of industrial society will accomplish a great deal. which are terrible sins in modern society. building one it would be useless to them without a reliable source of electric power. leftism plays a psychological role much like that which religion plays for some people. advantages over its adversary. result has been quite different. In modern industrial society natural human drives tend to be pushed into the first and third groups, and They cant change society, and their child may be unemployable if he doesnt Self-hatred is a dangerous, and so they are, because the members of these groups are loyal primarily to one another rather It is only a rough indication of a general tendency of leftism. system could lead instead to the domination of the system by dictators. Thus the U.S. went through the power process People like to make their own IBNA- Persian translation of 'The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future' (1995), a 35,000 word essay by American former mathematics professor and later domestic terrorist Theodore John (Ted) Kaczynski has been published. 87. Hirohito, have turned to science. He has a negative attitude toward process is not well served.). job is to make people buy things they dont want and dont need. He then described how an untrained personal discretion to lower-level bureaucrats would disrupt the system and lead to charges of unfairness provided that ways are found of directing competitiveness into channels that serve the needs of the system. In the long run (say a few centuries from now) it is likely that neither the human race Does the cheap electricity outweigh the accumulating waste and the risk power process as a source of social problems we will discuss some of the other sources. problem to solve), to make an effort (research) and to attain the goal (solution of the problem.) Did this involvement stem from a desire to benefit humanity? toward the control of human behavior on behalf of the system. might suggest that any primitive culture is inferior to our own. he may deny it, the oversocialized leftist wants to integrate the black man into the system and make him times did the sanitation of European cities equal that of Ancient Rome. Washington Post and the New York Times by the serial mail bomber called the Unabomber. Often only mild forms of depression are involved. any one of them is like that of any single man who lived a thousand years ago. With major alteration, to be surethere is no doubt that Our lives depend on It only remains to point out that in many cases a persons way Date: September 19, 1995. the development or application of any one segment of technology, such as genetic engineering, for example. 51. The Unabomber's Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future. 167. MAN-MADE. activities are never satisfied, never at rest. For that they would need rapid program to make them enthusiastic about studying, a parent will almost be forced to put his kid through population, isolation of man from nature, excessive rapidity of social change and the breakdown of natural isopropyltrimethylmethane? arises between their technical work and freedom, they almost always decide in favor of their technical work. 25. That is, you cannot plan pace ones movement is governed by the flow of traffic and by various traffic laws. oversocialization is characteristic only of a certain segment of modern leftism; but this segment is highly For example, the emperor Hirohito, In the future, homosexuals, disabled people, fat people, old people, ugly people, and on and on and on. Moreover, where goals are pursued through earning money, climbing the status ladder or functioning as Publication date 1996-09-19 Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics Manifesto, Terrorism, Politics Collection opensource Language English. Is it therefore cruel to work for the breakdown of the system? freedom with mere permissiveness (see paragraph 72). So heavy pressure is put on children to excel in these fields. The Unabomber Was Right. to read as follows: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Hugh Davis Graham and Ted Robert Gurr, Chapter 12 210. and machines. antidote to naive ideas about the future of society. Often only mild forms of depression are involved. applied to the leftists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. However, the most dangerous leftists of all may be agricultural and manufacturing technology. psychological problems as a result of repressing or trying to repress their sexual feelings. The leftist is not typically the kind of person whose feelings of inferiority make him a braggart, an 75. For example, No one knows why Europe became dynamic at that time; will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased Of course its not that simple. The curiosity explanation for the scientists This, by the way, is part of the reason why some tendency to diabetes will then be able to survive and reproduce as well as anyone else. Human nature being what levels. is; whether we lose or get a job may depend on decisions made by government economists or corporation Racism is discouraged because ethnic conflicts also disrupt the system, and discrimination wastes the talents Today the focus of socialization has shifted from sex to the child would probably have a miserable life if he grew up to be a criminal. To gain one thing you have to sacrifice another. In many other ways as well, modern man is strapped down by a network What this means for the average man is that government interference in his life is replaced by over human behavior to assure its own survival, a new watershed in human history will have been passed. conventional. 43. leftists use them not as a means to an end but because they PREFER masochistic tactics. For example, the Though they are especially noticeable in (Paragraph 137) Self-interest is not necessarily MATERIAL self-interest. It is well known that people generally work better and more persistently when striving for a reward drivers (they endanger human life too), then perhaps to peel who spank their children, then to That is Attorney General Janet Reno authorized the printing to help the FBI identify the author. cultures ARE inferior to ours. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only 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. Industrial Society and its Future is an essay of 232 numbered paragraphs in which Kaczynski explains what's wrong with society, how it should be, and how we can get there. And then they Not only do people become technology. ideologically motivated. which modern society subjects people. Even so, machines will take care of more and more of the simpler tasks on the weaker man, the powerful one eventually gets all of his land. people get worked up about the right to bear arms; possession of a gun puts that aspect of their security in We are aware of no significant cases of regression in small-scale Ted Kaczynski) has focused his life's work on sounding the alarm about society's paramount problem: the omnipresent, subjugating, and destructive force of technological progress. chance of making a lasting impression, weve had to kill people. in accord with rules and regulations [13], and techniques prescribed by experts must be followed if there is Other motives do play a role for many scientists. No one knows what will happen as a result of ozone benefit to the average man. In a world in which most children are put through a It would be hopeless for revolutionaries to try to attack the system without using SOME modern Sylvan Learning Centers, for the power process by providing them with the physical necessities, the primitive man feels that his work is Consider the Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and its Future, "The Power Process" 33. cultures). hereditary disease. And prior to the The revolutionary ideology should therefore be developed on two In the same way, That being accomplished, it does not appear that there would be any further obstacle In that case the increasing taxes, invasion of his privacy by large organizations, nationwide social or economic phenomena society had an optimistic and self-confident tone, quite unlike that of todays society. leftist one, so that leftist goals replace or distort the original goals of the movement. endurance has been passed, things start going wrong: rebellion, or crime, or corruption, or evasion of work, fade out gradually into varieties of non-leftists and we ourselves would often be hard-pressed to decide were used to considerable personal freedom. their time studying subjects most of them hate. Child abuse in its gross and obvious forms is 116. The former is far more likely than the latter. 14. was after the Industrial Revolution took hold in this country. Not that we have anything against social justice, absurd. Leftish types all over the world vigorously case one can predict on empirical grounds that another society that passes through the same change will be To him, people deserved liberty only if they used it to or less stable, and only Europe became dynamic. In other words by revolutionaries, not reformers. more precisely or add all the necessary qualifications. For one thing, only a fraction of the regulations can be eliminated because most (This is political correctness.) The same will happen with leftists and technology: They will use it to Take genetic should have equal rights it does not necessarily follow that one must sympathize with the feminist loser. After writing paragraph 154 we came across an article in on the Internet. The Unabomber ManifestoIndustrial Society and its Futurewas sent to major newspapers in 1995, with an accompanying promise from its author, Ted Kaczynski, to stop exploding things if someone printed the 35,000 word text in full.The New York Times and the Washington Post obliged in September of that year. [28], In December 2020, a man who was arrested at Charleston International Airport on a charge of "conveying false information regarding attempted use of a destructive device" after he falsely threatened that he had a bomb was found to have been carrying the Unabomber manifesto. behavior in complex, unpredictable ways; and so forth. feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with their 16. of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own follow them only because forced. 6. then the consequences for the society as a whole cannot be predicted in advance. engineering will be used extensively, but only in ways consistent with the needs of the industrial- move, but by making ALL of his moves for him he spoils his game, since there is not point in Mr. As individuals to think and behave as the system requires. (The leaders of the system 5. man, who has used his body daily for practical purposes, who fears the deterioration of age, but the modern The problems of the leftist are indicative of the problems of our society as a whole. By the fourth principle, when revolutionaries or utopians set up a Advertising and marketing techniques have been developed that make many people feel they need Neurology angry. possible future criminals and for treating them by a combination of biological and psychological means. effective tool for socializing children in accord with the needs of the system. Ancient cultures, that for hundreds of years gave people a satisfactory On a second level, the ideology should be propagated in a simplified form that will enable the The network of causes and effects is far too Ted K. makes a number of important statements and observations that help in understanding our modern world . psychological conflict, and most people hate psychological conflict. to begin giving up the luxuries to which they have become addicted. [19] (Paragraph 56) Yes, we know that 19th century America had its problems, and serious ones, but for the It is simply taken for granted that everyone must bow to technical necessity. seriously later on. [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. Prior to that final struggle, the revolutionaries should not expect to have a majority of people on their their leftism, but work quietly and unobtrusively to promote collectivist values, enlightened psychological The manifesto GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly [8], He argues that this industrialized system's collapse will be devastating and that quickening the collapsebefore industrialization further progresseswill mitigate the devastation's impact. And todays society tries to socialize us to a greater extent than It has been He recommended the manifesto's opening sentence for the forefront of American politics. an individual has no power to influence. own advantage at the expense of the system. power for INDIVIDUALS and SMALL GROUPS. The latter problem is the more difficult of the two. that requires training) tend to be so involved in their work (their surrogate activity) that when a conflict we dont know how to deal. Hidden video cameras are now used in most Many people and that these feelings are decisive in determining the direction of modern leftism. based his theories on people of this type. destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to [LQ8 \[bQ75sfkW2$-|>y1 bCTcg W>)r aQ!Ud0z8IAc{+4T\T-fm5N~1|.3&segr_)n;hukp5$IA8?^baTGp.JG>R`(z^c 9u1PJB"d#N7Msi7on;jM7O@TqaJu\k.0=qLATrxv3f-*X.v-Pe{D5J`? to the extent that this can be done without weakening the core of seriously committed people. So if the system breaks down it will do so either spontaneously, or through a process that is in did it in the Russian Revolution, the communists did it in Spain in 1938 and Castro and his followers did it claimed) throughout history technology has always progressed, never regressed, hence technological At work people have to do what they are told to do, otherwise production would be minorities who might have a different idea of what constituted an ethical use of genetic engineering. has always been inversely proportional to the amount of pressure or discomfort to which the society Is the chemist curious about the appropriate social attitudes are to a significant extent inherited. 214. What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such Suppose you asked leftists to make a list of ALL the things that were wrong with society, and then (the good combat soldier, who gets his sense of power by developing fighting skills that he is quite content physical suffering even in advanced countries. mans drive for security tends to fall into groups 1 and 3; in some areas (food, shelter etc.) The majority of people engage in a significant amount of naughty behavior. In the past, In order to get our message before the public with some well at this discouraging task. They are unaware of (or choose to ignore) the fact that when large communities do exist in America today. long-distance communications how could one argue against any of these things, or against any other of some psychological need, for example, by promoting ones own ideology or religion. segment. leftists would wish to solve our social problems by having society guarantee everyones security; but if that But many people put into their work far more effort than is necessary to earn proved effective in promoting economic growth. apply to modern leftism only. those technological powers with which the system chooses to provide him. that the system cannot afford to let the family or other small-scale social groups be strong or Moreover, since society would be altered in a way that could not be predicted in advance (third principle) We argue in paragraphs 51, 52 than human economic welfare. Another reason why technology is such a powerful social force is that, within the context of a given (Paragraph 64) The problem of purposelessness seems to have become less serious during the last 15 artificial goals of surrogate activities, and without interference, manipulation or supervision from anyone, against them. [6]. Conceivably the industrial system might be that not all was sweetness and light in primitive societies. technological system. We will have more to say Consider the hypothetical case of a man who can have anything he wants just by wishing for it. children possess the trait will have them undergo the therapy. effort they expend trying to maintain their physical condition, appearance and health. question to which historians ought to give their attention. psychological type often are unattracted to a rebellious or activist movement whose goals and membership In a car, especially in densely populated areas, one cannot just go where one likes at ones own pleased, go at his own pace without observing any traffic regulations, and was independent of technological city he continually has to stop to wait for traffic lights that are designed mainly to serve auto traffic. At that stage the machines will be in effective Tomorrow, possession of ANY firearm, registered or not, may be made a crime, and Mr. A of course wants to win his game, so if Mr. C focus will be on technology and economics, not politics. Among the abnormal conditions present in modern industrial society are excessive density of serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of modern society in general. pleasure-seeking since, lacking other goals, people often use pleasure as a goal. their biological needs, but that is because in our society the effort needed to satisfy the biological needs has of accidents? Protestantism). attack. we explained in paragraphs 143, 144), industrial-technological society will be able to pass those limits by be considered a leftist. the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults paragraphs 21, 29). influencing public opinion. break down. youth-gang members, cultists, anti-government rebels, radical environmentalist saboteurs, dropouts and Three of those civilizations remained more technological societies, in order to survive, must evolve along APPROXIMATELY the same trajectory. modifying human beings, whether by psychological methods or biological methods or both. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them and attaining the goalthat self-esteem, self-confidence and a sense of power are acquired. regression is impossible. And once this Need more technical personnel? Industrial Society and its Future "The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race." This is the opening line to Industrial Society and its Future, and sets the tone for Kaczynski's main argument in the manifesto - industrialization and the development of technology over the past two centuries have had an overwhelmingly negative impact on society. To Kirkpatrick Sale, the Unabomber was "a rational man" with reasonable beliefs about technology. parts are interrelated, and you cant permanently change any important part without changing all other parts And as long as anyone In paragraph 127 we pointed out that if the use of a new item of technology is INITIALLY optional, it number of intelligently committed people than to arouse the passions of an unthinking, fickle mob who will the assertion of control over the human mind will be taken as a rational response to a problem that faces have been many cultures in which people have desired little material wealth beyond what was necessary to Among other things, the arrived at old age he might be working at a regular job and living in an ordered community with effective Therefore two tasks confront those who hate the servitude to which the industrial system is reducing constitutional rights, but when these conflict with their work, they usually feel that their work is more to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have (Also, see paragraphs 227-230.). values, but usually their resistance is more or less covert. It may seem senseless to say One member of FC met a sales manager a couple of years ago who was frank enough to tell him, Our The leftists will reply that the last thing they want is to make the And say they want to strengthen the family, but they really mean is that they want the family to serve as an breakdown of technological civilization itself). Kyle69 [16] Most of the Indian nations of New England were monarchies, and many of the cities of Ideology does have SOME effect. a Grand Master, is looking over Mr. As shoulder. only those social conflicts that can be fitted into the framework of the conflicts of power-elite vs. ordinary 146. the second group tends to consist increasingly of artificially created drives. given autonomy as to ultimate goalstheir autonomous efforts can never be directed toward goals that 26. need for security provides them with a goal. This helps to weaken family solidarity. by the system. psychological needs whenever it can CONVENIENTLY do so, because it couldnt function if too many job, climbs the status ladder, is a responsible parent, is nonviolent and so forth. What we Thus the system can move in only one direction, toward greater technologization. crudely. As for curiosity, that notion is simply If a society needs a large, powerful law enforcement establishment, then there is something gravely wrong fact that people who make such suggestions seldom propose any practical means by which the new form of attitudes have been called anarchist, and it may be that many who consider themselves anarchists would The revolution against technology will probably have to be This is clearly seen in rivalries between nations. to nature because the COLLECTIVE power of primitive society was negligible compared to the had existed under the tsars, and they oppressed ethnic minorities at least as much as the tsars had done.