Theodore Kaczynski

This is the complete and unedited text from Theodore Kaczynski's 1995 Manifesto; Industrial Society and Its Future. Theodore, "Ted", Kaczynski is best known as the " UNABOMBER ", the perpetrator of a series of bombings spanning 18 years. The contents of this site were pulled from this .pdf and hyperlinks were added to allow easier browsing. Any ina... ccuracies may be the result of an error in transferring the .pdf to html, or may have existed in the original text. Fixed misplacement of most of passage 205 which was mistakenly appended to passage 200. (thx JM) Fixed spacing error in footnote 30. 1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human being to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in "advanced" countries. 2. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy. 3. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very ...Read More