Industrial Society and its Future: Notes

Unabomber Manifesto

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Note: Theodore Kaczynski's footnotes have been moved to the bottom of each page. — Xah Lee

Unabomber Manifesto

¶1 INTRODUCTION
¶6 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MODERN LEFTISM
¶10 FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY
¶24 OVER SOCIALIZATION
¶33 THE POWER PROCESS
¶38 SURROGATE ACTIVITIES
¶44 AUTONOMY
¶45 SOURCES OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS
¶59 DISRUPTION OF THE POWER PROCESS IN MODERN SOCIETY
¶77 HOW SOME PEOPLE ADJUST
¶87 THE MOTIVES OF SCIENTISTS
¶93 THE NATURE OF FREEDOM
¶99 SOME PRINCIPLES OF HISTORY
¶111 INDUSTRIAL-TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY CANNOT BE REFORMED
¶114 RESTRICTION OF FREEDOM IS UNAVOIDABLE IN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
¶121 THE ‘BAD’ PARTS OF TECHNOLOGY CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM THE ‘GOOD’ PARTS
¶125 TECHNOLOGY IS A MORE POWERFUL SOCIAL FORCE THAN THE ASPIRATION FOR FREEDOM
¶136 SIMPLER SOCIAL PROBLEMS HAVE PROVED INTRACTABLE
¶140 REVOLUTION IS EASIER THAN REFORM
¶143 CONTROL OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
¶161 HUMAN RACE AT A CROSSROADS
¶167 HUMAN SUFFERING
¶171 THE FUTURE
¶180 STRATEGY
¶207 TWO KINDS OF TECHNOLOGY
¶213 THE DANGER OF LEFTISM
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