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Ted Kaczynski: 1942-2023
Theodore John Kaczynski, the Bedraggled Genius Prophet of Techno-Doom, was found dead in his North Carolina prison cell in the early morning hours this past Saturday. He was 81 years old. The cause of death is currently unknown, and I wouldn’t trust the federal prison officials to be honest about it, anyway. The New York Times is already spreading rumors that he committed suicide.
According to a handwritten letter Kaczynski had sent to a correspondent in 2022:
I’m not going to “get well soon” — or ever — because I have terminal cancer. I can’t expect to live more than two years at the outside, and I may well be dead in less than a year. . . .
The Washington Post — which in 1995 agreed to print Kaczynski’s 35,000-word Industrial Society and Its Future in its entirety in exchange for a promise from Kaczynski, who at the time was only known as the “Unabomber” and was the target of one of the longest federal manhunts in history — wasted no time in slandering his memory. In an article/hit piece titled “Ted Kaczynski, who planted fear and death as the Unabomber, dies at 81,” the Post wrote:
Living in isolation, he acted on his hatred of technology and science, killing three people and injuring two dozen others. . . . For 17 years, he picked his victims with cold deliberation, leaving a grisly trail of nail- and razor blade-packed pipe bombs across the nation that killed three people and injured 23 others, several maimed for life.
For most, if not all, modern mainstream journalists, “hatred” apparently explains everything.
To its credit, the Post did note that while at Harvard in the late 1950s, Kaczynski was a mind-control guinea pig and MKULTRA victim. The psychological experiments left Kaczynski permanently embittered and may have played a role in forming the central thesis of both his writing and his bombing careers — namely, that technology’s expansion is inversely proportional to human freedom and personal agency.
Industrial Society and Its Future not only predicted the mind-swallowing rapaciousness of technology, it was also groundbreaking in how it psychoanalyzed Leftism and warned about modern psychiatry’s excesses.
Industrial Society and its Future on how technology robs human beings of personal agency:
Scientists work mainly for the fulfillment they get out of the work itself. . . . Thus science marches on blindly, without regard to the real welfare of the human race or to any other standard, obedient only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the government officials and corporation executives who provide the funds for research. . . . Electricity, indoor plumbing, rapid long-distance communications . . . how could one argue against any of these things? . . . [Yet] all these technical advances taken together have created a world in which the average man’s fate is no longer in his own hands . . . but in those of politicians, corporate executives and remote, anonymous technicians and bureaucrats whom he as an individual has no power to influence.
On Leftist psychology:
Leftists may claim that their activism is motivated by compassion or by moral principles, and moral principle does play a role for the leftist of the oversocialized type. But compassion and moral principle cannot be the main motives for leftist activism. Hostility is too prominent a component of leftist behavior; so is the drive for power. Moreover, much leftist behavior is not rationally calculated to be of benefit to the people whom the leftists claim to be trying to help. For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense to demand affirmative action in hostile or dogmatic terms? Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and symbolic concessions to white people who think that affirmative action discriminates against them. But leftist activists do not take such an approach because it would not satisfy their emotional needs. Helping black people is not their real goal. Instead, race problems serve as an excuse for them to express their own hostility and frustrated need for power. In doing so they actually harm black people, because the activists’ hostile attitude toward the white majority tends to intensify race hatred.
On antidepressants:
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society. It is well known that the rate of clinical depression has been greatly increasing in recent decades. We believe that this is due to disruption of the power process, as explained in paragraphs 59-76. But even if we are wrong, the increasing rate of depression is certainly the result of SOME conditions that exist in today’s society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.
Kaczynski’s 1999 short story “Ship of Fools,” written while he was imprisoned, predicted how the empty intersectional squabbles that plague us in 2023 were perhaps a purposeful distraction from far more ominous, and irreversibly apocalyptic, trends. Its last lines read:
And all of the passengers and crew chimed in one after another, calling the cabin boy a fascist and a counterrevolutionary. They pushed him away and went back to grumbling about wages, and about blankets for women, and about the right to suck cocks, and about how the dog was treated. The ship kept sailing north, and after a while it was crushed between two icebergs and everyone drowned.
Kaczynski leaves behind a society of overmedicated smart-phone addicts who are just as obsessed with cultural trivialities as the crew of “Ship of Fools” and who seem blind to the titanic dangers that threaten us all, regardless of political persuasion.
And a frightening new poll from the Cato Institute finds that younger people — you know, the “digitally raised” types who never lived in a world without the Internet — are far more likely to approve of the government placing surveillance cameras in their homes so long as it makes them feel a tiny bit more secure.
Uncle Ted will be missed. Sadly, he will probably not be replaced.
“Portland’s Premier Anne Frank Impersonator” Arrested for Stabbing His Father to Death
Police have arrested 34-year-old drag queen Michael Horwitz on suspicion of stabbing his 68-year-old father to death inside daddy’s “multimillion-dollar Virginia Beach mansion” during a dispute last weekend.
The nature of the father/drag-queen-son argument is unclear, but this much is known: The victim, Dr. Abbey Horwitz — I don’t name ’em, I just report their names — was a male dentist on the cusp of retirement. His son Michael was one of three children. At some point Michael had relocated to Portland, Oregon. He used the nom de plume “Menorah Horwitz” in a series of articles for freebie alt-rag The Portland Mercury. In a 2017 story for the Mercury, Horwitz referred to his mother as his “first favorite superhero” who “taught me how to disappear”:
I’m learning to turn invisible to live as a woman. It’s a talent I have for being transparent. I let you see right through me, and act like I don’t see you at all. I’m half here and half hidden, a trick I learned from the smartest woman I know.
In one of his stories on the site from 2017, Horwitz, who in 2015 was named “A Queer to Watch” by The Advocate, says his mom is his “first favorite superhero” and “taught me how to disappear.”
He also wrote a softcover book called The Diary of Menorah Horwitz. The book’s description contains what is perhaps an ominous portent of what may have become an act of patricide:
Michael Horwitz, a shy 29-year-old gay illustrator, combines Judaism and a love of drag in all the wrong ways when he becomes Menorah, Portland’s premiere Anne Frank impersonator. Dressed in a puke colored school-girl’s uniform, stripper heels, and nails made from burning candles taped to his fingers, Michael explores Portland’s queer and punk party scene, one bad lip synch at a time. He falls in with drug happy club kids, hot tempered local divas, and some of the world’s most famous drag queens (sometimes disastrously) — all while waking up at 6 am the next morning to bag groceries. But not everyone is happy with Michael’s new alter ego, specifically his very supportive family.
According to the Post-Millennial:
The book’s artwork shows Horwitz with candles taped to his fingers, surrounded by a number of objects including female hormones, a baby having its umbilical cord cut but the cord has been replaced with a hot dog, and a bottle labeled “Jew Wine.”
Holy Moly Surgical Cannoli, with all of those factors, what could possibly have gone wrong, besides possibly stabbing his dad to death?
Horwitz was booked on charges of second-degree murder and is being held on suicide watch at the Virginia Beach Jail. Apparently there’s not a lot of money to be made, even in Portland, as an Anne Frank-impersonating drag queen, so even though the mentally discombobulated child of wealth, who allegedly stabbed his father to death in a mansion valued at over $2 million, has pled indigence and requested a public defender.
Poop Swastika Found in Vermont High School’s Gender-Neutral Bathroom
Apropos of themes raised in Spencer J. Quinn’s recent feature about how the Third Reich burned books encouraging transgenderism, as well as keeping in line with the Nazis-vs.-trannies narrative about Menorah Horwitz, CNN reports that “[a] high school in Vermont is working with police to investigate after a swastika was painted with feces in a gender-neutral bathroom.”
As of this writing, it is unclear whether the fecal hate symbol, which was found at Vermont’s Montpelier High School, was painted by a tranny-hating Nazi or a Nazi-hating tranny. In a statement issued last week to students and families, school principal Jason Gingold wrote:
It is a purposeful act that targets specific people in our community to instill fear and send the message that they don’t belong. . . . This is not an isolated incident. Drawing a swastika in feces in a gender-neutral bathroom is a very deliberate act that has been mirrored in schools, college campuses, and elsewhere across the country. . . . In recent years, it has been directly used on school campuses to threaten queer and Jewish people.
Apparently the Vermont high school is packed with queer, disabled, and non-white pupils. The Montpelier Bridge quoted one student, who apparently has a Third Eye that allows him to distinguish between hate hoaxes and “genuine” hate crimes:
It said someone made a swastika with feces in the gender-neutral bathroom. . . . At first everyone thought it was a dumb kid just being stupid. But this is a genuine act of hate. One of my teachers said it being in a gender-neutral bathroom wasn’t a coincidence.
The fecal swastika was allegedly smeared on Friday, June 2. By Monday, it had caused such a collective schoolwide conniption that a general assembly was hastily summoned to deal with the trauma. According to another student:
I am a queer person with disabilities and I am affected. . . . I said to my community [at Monday’s assembly] that we can be better than this and that we are better than this and we need to be there for one another. I spoke to my classmates, shaking with anger and anxiety. I was met with a multitude of reactions; agreement, fear, hurt, tears, but also people laughing and snickering at me. . . . With the image being drawn in feces, it adds another layer of hate and negativity. . . . That message is meant to make people feel as if they don’t belong and spread fascist ideas into our most vulnerable and beautiful communities.
I hope you’ll pardon me for snickering.
These Shaniquas Are Outta Control!
You can buy Spencer J. Quinn’s young adult novel The No College Club here.
During a recent discussion about the Karen Question on White Rabbit Radio, host Tim Murdock suggested that the generic name for black women who cause a ruckus should be “Shaniqua,” and I have no problem with that.
I should clarify that these terms are not directly analogous, because a “Shaniqua” as I define it doesn’t merely call the cops on people for crimes, whether real or imagined. Quite the opposite, in fact: A “Shaniqua” is more likely to be committing crimes. I also believe that the following cases should establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Shaniquas are far more of a public menace than Karens could ever hope to be.
Our first Shaniqua this week — or should that be spelled “this wiq”? — reminds me of a drunken black woman with whom I had the misfortune of sharing a plane from Las Vegas back to Atlanta a few years ago. Visibly tipsy upon boarding, she proceeded to shout so loudly and intemperately, especially after takeoff, that flight attendants were forced to bind her hands and feet with plastic zip ties, at which point they locked her in a rear bathroom, whereupon she continued to shout and bang her head against the bathroom door.
Cynthia McKnight’s mug shot shows her with two metal nose piercings, which may be an unconscious homage to her African forebears’ famed practice of shoving bones through their noses. The incident that landed her in trouble with the po-po happened last April on an American Airlines flight that was scheduled to fly from Buffalo to Chicago. According to court documents, Ms. McKnight became “irate” when a flight attendant told her to put away her phone before takeoff. McKnight then “engaged in a verbal altercation with one passenger, then spat on another” before opening the emergency door and jumping down the inflatable slide. According to a tweet by Buffalo Bills offensive tackle Spencer Brown, who was aboard the plane and witnessed the woman in all her primate rage:
Sitting on a plane. A lady is pissed. Lady pulls the emergency inflatable slide to escape the plane. Lady is running wild through the tarmac currently. Cops have arrived. Flight ruined. Memories made. Noice.
Due to McKnight’s freakout, the plane never took off, and American Airlines estimated that the cost of replacing the emergency slide and rebooking passengers was around $50,000. McKnight, who pleaded guilty to two counts of simple assault, recently agreed to pay $42,128 in restitution.
Our second Shaniqua caused a giant to-do in Manhattan’s Tompkins Square Park last Sunday by yanking one woman by the hair, terrorizing the woman’s baby, grabbing a newspaper from a man’s hands and tearing it to pieces, overturning outside tables at a nearby bistro, smashing people’s drinks, and making a general massive pain in the ass of herself during a “violent rampage” estimated to have lasted about a half-hour before police finally arrived. The woman, whose nappy hair was swaddled in a sassy red “Rosie the Riveter”-style scarf, has been identified so far only as “Pop Star.” Police loaded her into an ambulance and shuffled her off to Bellevue Hospital, because she is clearly mentally ill rather than a criminal, right? Witnesses say she was spotted freely walking in the same area the very next day.
The day after that, yet another unhinged Shaniqua was spotted in Tompkins Square Park harassing the mostly white-looking and clearly intimidated locals. One of her male targets told the New York Post:
She was saying creepy-ass shit. She said, “You guys are lizards.” She was calling me a faggot. It was super intrusive. She’s obviously unwell.
Rrrrrright — just like the last one, she’s “unwell” rather than a criminal. But you’re obviously a faggot for trying to excuse her behavior.
Our final pair of alleged Shaniquas — or should that be Shaniquim? — is by far the grisliest case. According to the New York Post — which I was told in journalism school was a trash newspaper compared to The New York Times, although these days I find the Post hews to journalism’s rules far more faithfully than the Times does:
A twisted Maryland mom and daughter are charged with dismembering the family’s matriarch with a chainsaw — then grilling the body parts to get rid of them — following a fight about a credit card, cops said.
According to the Prince George’s County Police Department, when they made a welfare check at the home of 71-year-old Margaret Craig, her 44-year-old daughter Candace showed no reservations about inviting them in to snoop around. They say that when they went down to the basement, “they immediately smelled the odor of decomposition” and “observed blood and tissue,” as well as “what appeared to be brain matter.”
Investigators later concluded that the elder Ms. Craig had been dead for more than a week and that the day after she was allegedly murdered, Candace Craig enlisted her 19-year-old daughter, Salia Hardy, in helping to sloppily hide the corpse. Both mom and daughter are being held without bond in connection with the slaying.
If anyone reading this still maintains that white Karens are worse than black Shaniquas, you’ll need to speak with me after class.
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39 comments
You write “technology’s expansion is inversely proportional to human freedom and personal agency.” Don’t “human freedom” and “personal agency” mean the same thing? If not, what is the difference?
Tucker published a book about 5 years ago called “Ship of Fools”. Does anyone know whether Tucker may have got the title from Ted’s short story?
When used as an adjective rather than a noun—which is how I used it there, modifying the word “freedom”—the word “human” is understood in the plural form. Both Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary concur on this point. Whenever the term “human rights” is used, it’s never understood as referring to only one guy. Only when it’s used as a noun—i.e., “He’s a human, not a damned bloody ape!”—is it implied to be in singular form. That’s where it differs from the phrase “personal agency.” One term is collective, the other is individual.
The term “ship of fools” goes back to Plato. It’s also the title of a 1494 book by Sebastian Brant. And a 1962 novel by Katharine Anne Porter. And a 1965 movie by Stanley Kramer. And a 1970 song by The Doors. And a 1974 song by the Grateful Dead, Tucker Carlson’s favorite band.
Thanks Jim,
You certainly gave an excellent response to both my comments. I had no idea that “Ship of Fools” went all the way back to Plato.
And also the song of Robert Plant, 1988.
For me Ship of Fools is more known as Das Narrenschiff, oder Altdeutsch Daß Narrenschyff ad Narragoniam, von Sebastian Brant, 1494.
The week of many deaths. Robert Hanssen, convicted Soviet/Russian spy in the FBI, died in Florence supermax prison.
I just read about that too. The strange thing is that I’d never heard about him before, even though he was a pretty big fish. I wonder why there wasn’t much publicity.
I’m only speculating, but maybe there wasn’t much publicity because the FBI doesn’t like to broadcast its mistakes, nor do the news agencies that do the FBI’s bidding.
Robert Hansen (one “s”) was also the name of a serial killer.
I have read three books about him, by David Vise, David Wise (two different Davids!), and also the newest by Lis Wiehl. And there was a good film about him, Breach. with Chris Cooper playing Hanssen.
There’s an ok 2007 Hollywood film about the Hanssen affair, Breach. He first came under suspicion as a ‘sexual deviant’, in which he apparently was sharing videos on the internet of he and his wife having sex. Even more odd, he was a member of Opus Dei and going to strip clubs, ‘to convert’ the dancers… very much along the lines of doing first-hand ‘research’ on such topics. Presumably, back then spy agencies were worried their agents could be blackmailed for their naughty behavior, kompromat as the Russians put it. Nowadays kompromat is probably harder to get a hold of a seemingly anything goes, right down to US officials stealing baggage at airports.
Quite an odd character indeed.
Anyway, now that he’s gone, who’s going to be our token Norwegian spy? 😉
Rick Ames is still alive. But he’s 82 years old too.
Night Moves (2013) is a worthwhile character study of a disenchanted eco-activist who sets about on a plan to blow up a dam. Not to be confused with the 1970s paranoid mystery of the same name.
Just now Italy’s Berlusconi died.
For several years Ted had supporters on the outside. At one time, they maintained a website promoting the ideas in his manifesto, some academies were involved in this. They condemned his criminal actions and that was one of the first they stated on their website. It appears that they have taken the site down. He also influenced a small movement some call anti civilization. It consisted of a small number of people who were attempting to get back to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. A few of them documented their attempts which were written about in various articles. That movement appears to have fissled out as well. It was more difficult for people raised in the modern world to revert back to a primitive lifestyle than they thought. You can find articles on the internet about people who were influenced by his manifesto.
For anyone interested, John Michael Greer (Dark Age America, The Retro Future) and Dr. David Skrbina (who corresponded with Ted for years and wrote books with him) are the only two living people I can think of who address the problems of technology in a manner that is comparable to Ted. Both have been featured interviews on podcasts (Greer much more than Skrbina), especially Hermitix.
Chad Haag is also good for articulating and expanding on Ted’s points.
Honorable mention to Pentti Linkola, though he never went as deep as these other guys.
There is still debate about whether Ted Kaczynski was ‘insane’ or not, a defense largely put forward by his family and attorneys against his own wishes. As comparison, consider that John Hinkley shot an actual US president and left James Brady with brain damage. Hinkley went to an insane asylum and has already been released.
There is definitely a logic to Hinkley’s concept. But he also seemed to live a free life in the wilds of Montana, without much day to day government entanglement. Kaczynski’s point about antidepressants is probably even more true of the opioid crisis.
I can’t find much in his ideas that had not already been said before him, right down to the folk legend of John Henry, which has had more enduring impact without the baggage of mail bombs. A waste he couldn’t find another way to express his discontent.
Cynthia McKnight was ordered to pay over $42,000 in restitution. That’s absolutely laughable. American Airlines won’t see a penny of that.
Whew, for a moment I thought the Motor City Madman had riffed his last one.
That other guy ─ I’m sorry I could not volunteer for his firing squad. Another homicidal paranoid schizophrenic who did not want to take his meds or dig an outhouse for his cabin, that Uncle Ted I shall not miss.
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“I don’t name ’em, I just report their names”, made me chuckle.
Dead Ted seemed eminently sensible relating to his manifesto. He shouldn’t have murdered and maimed, his take on things made sense and was somewhat prophetic.
I too am fascinated by the kacynski affair, and him as an individual. I think he was an evil person who invented the “motive” for his crimes. He wanted to bomb and his motive was a pretext in his mind. I saw on the Netflix biopic that he admired this other Slavic bomber in his childhood who has done a rash of similar bombings. Still, I would have loved to speak with him some day about a variety of topics. What were the origins of his evil? He must have had some sexual abnormality, never having a significant other, as talented and nice looking as he was. He’s a true riddle.
You’re right.
He had autogynephilia.
My memory is fuzzy on this, but in Dr. Sally Johnson’s assessment of Ted, I think she says his gender dysphoria went away as he spent more time outside of “civilization”. He seemed to realize it was a delusion that civilization was somehow reinforcing in him, or something to that effect. As an aside, there’s a lot of overlap between autism and trannies.
I can think of at least a thousand better icebreakers than “Let’s talk about the origins of your evil.”
Oh I wouldna said THAT. I would’ve conned him: yeah, I see it your way, lol.
As the article mentioned, he was a MKULTRA victim which likely left him unbalanced. As for his activities, I believe that they were ideological because of his choice of targets. If he just wanted to be a sadist, he would’ve hit random shopping malls. It’s quite unfortunate that he did any of that, of course. That was a strategic mistake too; he could’ve been quite an effective activist if he’d stayed on the right side of the law.
He thought about transitioning to a woman for a while.
In an interview with his brother, he mentioned a factory job that he got for Ted. He started to harass a female employee that he was attracted to and ultimately lost the job. He also admitted to thinking about getting a male order bride while he lived in a cabin. His roommate at Harvard was interviewed. He said that Ted was a slob who didn’t pick up after himself. His brother was the one who caught him and turned him in. It wasn’t the authorities.
Yeah, but that could all be cover for something else. No matter how bad his personal habits, I’m sure there would be a slew of Jewish academic women after him!
His sister in law supposedly recognized the writing style of the manifesto as that of Ted. She said “it sounds like him.” I read the book about him and so say the fbi was investigating a ring of d&d players in the Chicago area for the bombings and they only gave up on that theory reluctantly! They were also investigating Gary gygax. I have a conspiracy theory about that as well, but—for another day!
-Netflix biopic
All popular depictions and “deep dives” focus on sensationalizing the man because that’s what appeals to TVtards who never mentally grew beyond age 16. The man himself is over-explored, and his ideas are under-explored. This is by design.
As for the bombs, I have to say I just plain don’t care. Bombing millions of people indiscriminately is considered an act of great heroism when it serves certain interests. We even have several holidays honoring it, complete with god-awful music, binging artery clogging processed foods, and drunk driving accidents.
Karens are rare. It’s an exaggerated phenomenon.
Shaniquas are much more frequently seen, but the mainstream media doesn’t name them nor shame them because blacks are the precious pets and spoiled brats of America’s rotten elites.
Naomis are also not named and shamed by mass media. They don’t call out the obnoxious behavior of their own.
When Ted Kaczynski was arrested, many people tried to rebut his arguments, but their rebuttals were almost entirely just ad hominem attacks.
1) Do not believe Ted Kaczynski because he is murderously crazy.
2) Do not believe Ted Kaczynski because he never takes a bath.
3) Do not believe Ted Kaczynski because he has never had sex with a woman.
No one ever managed to defeat his basic argument about modern industrial society; namely, that (as so eloquently stated by President George W. Bush) “This sucker’s goin’ down.”
>> Foursquare Neighborhood Band wrote:
What was there to debate?
Perhaps because one would have to assume too many loony premises, and then to rationally parlay the word-salad from Ted’s disordered mind.
Really, I find it amazing that anybody finds his ideas original or inspiring.
I am not a huge admirer of the Transcendentalists, but “Uncle Ted” (not the musician) was no Henry David Thoreau.
And unlike Ted K., “Old Henry” at least had the personal agency to either dig an outhouse for his (brick chimney) cabin out at Walden Pond or hire someone to do it.
TK was an autiste with abstract mathematics like the fictional Rain Man, but did not have the social skills to actually teach mathematics or anything else. Albert Einstein (also overrated, but with qualified and articulate disciples) was probably similar, but not nearly as antisocial.
In the end, with an exaggerated Gandhi-complex that could only be articulated via violence, Ted Kaczynski discredited any original or innovative ideas that he might have had by trying to kill innocent people (such as with his bombing of the airliner in flight, which fortunately did not crash).
Also, Academics ─ especially those with tenure ─ have historically been given extra-wide latitude in the West to express or to “profess” their thoughts, even if very unpopular.
The Injun worshipper and Marxist Professor (aren’t they all these days) Ward Churchill, who like a lot of White Libtards falsely posed as having Native blood, was not lynched for controversially describing the people who worked in offices at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 as “Little Eichmanns.”
Ward Churchill’s critics were not silenced either.
This is what the First Amendment is all about.
And this is why criminalizing things such as race-realism or Holocaust “Denial” is so insidious. It is a huge violation of basic intellectual integrity and even the Scientific Method itself ─ which is way more important than whether Jesus or Mohammed ─ or sacralized Jewish victims ─ are portrayed “respectfully” in media.
One core problem with the Left in general is that they seem to think that their literal violence is “free-speech,” while thinking that the Right’s literal free-speech is “violence.”
The bottom line is that TK was an execrable coward, intellectually and otherwise, and the lionization of this anarchist creep disgusts me.
🙂
Our point is not that Ted Kaczynski is original or inspiring, or that his life is worthy of emulating. We read “Industrial Society and Its Future” and “Ship of Fools,” and found his writing to be tedious and largely derivative; and his life story practically begs: “Kids, don’t try this at home.”
Our point is that the brightest people on the planet were not able to defeat his basic argument that “This sucker’s goin’ down.”
We’re in deep doo-doo.
What is Davos Man other than The Unabomber with more money and better personal hygiene?
Both are proceeding from the grim but logical conclusions of the Standard Run (Business-as-Usual) of “The Limits of Growth.” The future will contain far fewer people living at a far lower standard of living.
The major difference is that Ted Kaczynski advocated that we hunt and fish and farm as in the early 1800’s, while the WEF wants a world where Davos Man gets to jet around the world dining on caviar while the rest of us languish in 15-minute prisons subsisting on industrially-produced bugs.
“This sucker” ain’t “going down” because of technology per se – unless perhaps it was Unabomber’s real thesis [don’t know, never read him] that man himself had not co-evolved (whether genetically, culturally or psychologically) in tune with his technological advances, and thus his awesome destructive capacity and still-limited wisdom (the “ape at the nuclear button”) spelled eventual doom. This is not a ridiculous concern, but also not one at all unique to Kaczynski.
Anyway, it doesn’t matter. There is no putting the genie of technology back in its bottle. Therefore, we must hope the wise men can stay ahead of the savages and fools. So far they have, but who can tell the future?
What was utterly stupid was Unabomber’s, umm, “PR” strategy. That was guaranteed to deflect attention from what he wanted people to examine. He should have worked to attain tenure (which by all accounts he could have achieved), and then begun a second career as an anti-tech intellectual and activist. He probably would have made a productive name for himself, and perhaps advanced his Luddite cause.
Therefore, we must hope the wise men can stay ahead of the savages and fools.
Kaczynski’s entire point was that men, whether wise or foolish, would be unable to stay ahead of the machines.
I read a book about psychoactives in Romanian tradition some time back. What struck me the most was how much of the Romanian pharmacopeia in pre-modern times was aimed at treating depression. Must have been a common condition, even back then.
One of the mistakes I see made again and again, even by people smart enough to know better, is identifying trends as modern while knowing shit-all about the past.
Ancient Romans used led pipes for water. They were slowly poisoned by led particles in the drinkwater.
I have started using led light bulbs; should I be afraid?
Was this book Richard Rudgley’s Essential Substances: Intoxicants in Society by any chance?
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