Industrial Society and its Future

by Theodore Kaczynski (b1942), 1995.

1. INTRODUCTION (¶1)

2. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MODERN LEFTISM (¶6)

3. FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY (¶10)

4. OVERSOCIALIZATION (¶24)

5. THE POWER PROCESS (¶33)

6. SURROGATE ACTIVITIES (¶38)

7. AUTONOMY (¶44)

8. SOURCES OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS (¶45)

9. DISRUPTION OF THE POWER PROCESS IN MODERN SOCIETY (¶59)

10. HOW SOME PEOPLE ADJUST (¶77)

11. THE MOTIVES OF SCIENTISTS (¶87)

12. THE NATURE OF FREEDOM (¶93)

13. SOME PRINCIPLES OF HISTORY (¶99)

14. INDUSTRIAL-TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY CANNOT BE REFORMED (¶111)

15. RESTRICTION OF FREEDOM IS UNAVOIDABLE IN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY (¶114)

16. THE 'BAD' PARTS OF TECHNOLOGY CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM THE 'GOOD' PARTS (¶121)

17. TECHNOLOGY IS A MORE POWERFUL SOCIAL FORCE THAN THE ASPIRATION FOR FREEDOM (¶125)

18. SIMPLER SOCIAL PROBLEMS HAVE PROVED INTRACTABLE (¶136)

19. REVOLUTION IS EASIER THAN REFORM (¶140)

20. CONTROL OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR (¶143)

21. HUMAN RACE AT A CROSSROADS (¶161)

22. HUMAN SUFFERING (¶167)

23. THE FUTURE (¶171)

24. STRATEGY (¶180)

25. TWO KINDS OF TECHNOLOGY (¶207)

26. THE DANGER OF LEFTISM (¶213)

27. NOTES

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