THEODORE J. KACZYNSKI, a.k.a. “THE UNABOMBER” –
TECHNOLOGICAL SLAVERY – INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE – 2010 (1995)
It is impossible to discuss this “manifesto”
in depth and in detail because of two things.
The first one is the cynicism of
the author.
“The only sensible alternative for
the weaker man is to kill the strong one while he has a chance. In the same
way, while the industrial system is sick we must destroy it.” (Paragraph 135)
This absolute rejection of any
respect of life, this absolute call for killing those you consider your
enemies, this absolute advocacy of killing and destroying no matter who, no
matter what that or who is in your way is the utmost level of self-centered
egotistic and umbilical selfishness that reveals the chap must have been the
victim of a very serious trauma in his early infancy. By serious I mean a trauma
caused by a close relative and having a sexual dimension. His desire to destroy
history, humanity, industrialism and everything else that was developed since
the use of coal to produce steam reveals someone who is totally locked up in a
Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
The second reason why there is no
discussion possible is that the author is circumstantially opportunistically
cultivating contradictions. Let’s just take one:
“If the breakdown [of
industrialism and the industrial system] is sudden, many people will die, since
the world’s population has become so overblown that it cannot even feed itself
any longer without advanced technology. Even if the breakdown is gradual enough
so that reduction of the population can occur more through lowering of the
birth rate than through elevation of the death rate, the process of
de-industrialization probably will be very chaotic and involve much suffering.”
(Paragraph167)
We are talking here about
reducing the population to something like 500 million people instead of seven
billion. We are talking here about the drastic policy of erasing something like
six or six and a half billion people in just a few years through famine, total
disappearance of medical care, the pure disappearance of any source of energy. And
yet at the same time the author dares say in paragraph 204:
“Revolutionaries should have as
many children as they can. There is strong scientific evidence that social
attitudes are to a significant extent inherited.”
On one side 6.5 people have to
die out of 7 and on the other side the revolutionaries who are advocating this demographic
policy should make as many children as they can. Do what I am telling you to
do, not what I am doing. Die please, in silence if possible, while I procreate
children who will become torturers and executioners.
His strong scientific evidence is
a plain sham inherited from the bad influence of the racist behaviorists (there
luckily are also non-racist behaviorists). Social attitudes are in fact
transmitted through education and not inherited through one’s genes. But one
more contradiction:
“Education is no longer a simple
affair of paddling a kid’s behind when he doesn’t know his lessons and patting
him on the head when he does know them. It is becoming a scientific technique
for controlling the child’s development. . . “ (Paragraph 148)
And he goes into a vast
development about The Sylvan Learning Centers that are effective by using
psychological engineering in taking the control of the children and making them
learn the knowledge and the behavior they want. Without entering that narrow-minded
debate, let me say simply that the children of the revolutionaries will have to
have special schools to be “manipulated” into becoming the undertakers of industrialism
and the industrial system. Where would their autonomy be? The father I guess
will decide for them.
The vision given by this author
is absolutely frightening about the numerous paddling and other chastisements he
got on his bottom, from the father of course, while the loving mother was
padding him on the head.
In other words if you have some
time to lose buy the book and read the first 112 pages, if you can read that
many, and then forget about this delirious tremens pamphlet of an anarchist (paragraph
215) that is in no way either a manifesto or a gospel. That author is dangerous,
mind you. All traumatized children unite! That’s his motto.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 12:08 PM