Note: Theodore Kaczynski's footnotes have been moved to the bottom of each page. —Xah Lee
The following is a list of typos or errors I (Xah Lee) found while reading the Unabomber Manifesto.
• ¶27: parenthesis is used to mark footnote 3 and 4, while square brackets are used elsewhere.
• ¶73: footnote 14 is referred to by paragraphs 73 and 114. However, the footnote only indicated 73.
• ¶84: middle, the “attack” is probably a typo and should be “attach”, in: «Some people are more “other-directed” than others, and therefore will more readily attack importance to a surrogate activity simply because the people around them treat it as important or because society tells them it is important.»
• ¶141, “limite” should be “limit” in: “As we noted in paragraph, reformers seeking to limite certain aspects of technology would be working to avoid a negative outcome.”
• ¶142: “restrainde” should be “restrained” in: “Reform is always restrainde by the fear of painful consequences if changes go too far.”
• ¶143: “Since the beginning of civilization, organized societies have had to put pressures on human beings of the sake of the functioning of the social organism.”. The “of” probably should be “for”.
• in footnote 24, it is supposed to be referenced by paragraph 139, but paragraph 139 don't have any footnote marker.
• ¶143: “When the limit of human endurance has been passed, things start going rong: ”. The “rong” should be “wrong”.
• ¶145: ”Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that amke them terribley unhappy”. “amke” should be “make”.
• ¶145: “in such a way as to enable him to toelrate social conditions”.
• ¶148: “Other techniques strike deeper that the foregoing.”
• ¶151: “If the systems succeeds in imposing sufficient control over human behavior to assure itw own survival, a new watershed in human history will have passed.”
• ¶157: “but if there is one it clearly is less powerful that the biological mechanisms of human behavior”. “that” should be “than”.
• The caption for section 21: “HUMAN RACE AT A CROSSROADS”, the “crossroads” probably should be “crossroad”.
• ¶175: “They will need more and m ore training”.
• ¶175: “The system will have to use any means that I can”. Probably should be “...any means it can”
• ¶175: “We can imagine a future society in which there is endless competition for positions of prestige an power”
• ¶176: «(drugs, , crime, “cults,” hate groups)»
• ¶177: “They only indicate the kinds of outcomes that seem to us mots likely. But wee can envision no plausible scenarios that are any more palatable that the ones we've just described”
• ¶177: ‘they will be more “socialized” that ever and their physical and mental qualities’.
• ¶178: “If man is not adjust to this new environment by being artificially re-engineered”.
• ¶194: ‘the “green” party would be voted out of of fice’
• ¶196: The last part of paragraph 196 is repeated, starting with “...the long run they may perhaps be advantageous because they foster economic”
• ¶219: “and after that it will be alco hot then junk food”. Alcohol.