Ted Kaczynski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Project MKUltra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"A considerable amount of credible circumstantial evidence suggests that Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, participated in CIA-sponsored MKUltra experiments conducted at Harvard University from the fall of 1959 through the spring of 1962."
washingtonpost.com: Unabomber Special Report
Industrial-technological system
"The document sent by UNABOM to The Washington Post is a densely written anarchist manifesto that calls for worldwide revolution against the effects of modern society's "industrial-technological system."
That system, the manuscript argues, has robbed contemporary humans of their "autonomy" and their presumably empowering rapport with nature -- defined by the document as "WILD nature: those aspects of the functioning of the earth and its living things that are independent of human management and free of human interference and control."
Instead, "its focus will be on technology and economics, not politics." A cover letter accompanying the manifesto states that "the industrial-technological system has got to be eliminated, and to us almost any means that may be necessary for that purpose are justified."
washingtonpost.com: Unabomber Manifesto
"This is the text of a 35,000-word manifesto as submitted to The Washington Post and the New York Times by the serial mail bomber called the Unabomber. The manifesto appeared in The Washington Post as an eight-page supplement that was not part of the news sections. This document contains corrections that appeared in the Friday, Sept. 22, 1995 editions of Washington Post. The text was sent in June, 1995 to The New York Times and The Washington Post by the person who calls himself “FC,” identified by the FBI as the Unabomber, whom authorities have implicated in three murders and 16 bombings. The author threatened to send a bomb to an unspecified destination “with intent to kill” unless one of the newspapers published this manuscript. The Attorney General and the Director of the FBI recommended publication."
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE
Introduction
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 beings 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 painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.
Continued...
Unabomber Enters Supermax Prison - CBS News
"He will be locked down 23 hours a day in a 12-by-7-foot cell designed so that inmates cannot make eye contact with other prisoners or see anything except walls and sky. Solitary confinement inmates cannot go to the library or the dining room or attend religious services."
Patrick C. Fischer, Early Unabomber Target, Is Dead at 75
"Patrick C. Fischer, a computer scientist whose theoretical work helped make Internet searches possible, but who was most widely known as an early target of the so-called Unabomber, died on Friday in Montgomery County, Md. He was 75.
Mr. Kaczynski, who is serving a life sentence for mail bombings that killed three people and injured 28 between 1978 and 1995, singled out university professors, scientists and business leaders in a self-styled campaign against what he considered the degrading effect that modern technology and industrial development have on human life and individual freedom."
Project MKUltra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"A considerable amount of credible circumstantial evidence suggests that Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, participated in CIA-sponsored MKUltra experiments conducted at Harvard University from the fall of 1959 through the spring of 1962."
washingtonpost.com: Unabomber Special Report
Industrial-technological system
"The document sent by UNABOM to The Washington Post is a densely written anarchist manifesto that calls for worldwide revolution against the effects of modern society's "industrial-technological system."
That system, the manuscript argues, has robbed contemporary humans of their "autonomy" and their presumably empowering rapport with nature -- defined by the document as "WILD nature: those aspects of the functioning of the earth and its living things that are independent of human management and free of human interference and control."
Instead, "its focus will be on technology and economics, not politics." A cover letter accompanying the manifesto states that "the industrial-technological system has got to be eliminated, and to us almost any means that may be necessary for that purpose are justified."
washingtonpost.com: Unabomber Manifesto
"This is the text of a 35,000-word manifesto as submitted to The Washington Post and the New York Times by the serial mail bomber called the Unabomber. The manifesto appeared in The Washington Post as an eight-page supplement that was not part of the news sections. This document contains corrections that appeared in the Friday, Sept. 22, 1995 editions of Washington Post. The text was sent in June, 1995 to The New York Times and The Washington Post by the person who calls himself “FC,” identified by the FBI as the Unabomber, whom authorities have implicated in three murders and 16 bombings. The author threatened to send a bomb to an unspecified destination “with intent to kill” unless one of the newspapers published this manuscript. The Attorney General and the Director of the FBI recommended publication."
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE
Introduction
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 beings 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 painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.
Continued...
Unabomber Enters Supermax Prison - CBS News
"He will be locked down 23 hours a day in a 12-by-7-foot cell designed so that inmates cannot make eye contact with other prisoners or see anything except walls and sky. Solitary confinement inmates cannot go to the library or the dining room or attend religious services."
Patrick C. Fischer, Early Unabomber Target, Is Dead at 75
"Patrick C. Fischer, a computer scientist whose theoretical work helped make Internet searches possible, but who was most widely known as an early target of the so-called Unabomber, died on Friday in Montgomery County, Md. He was 75.
Mr. Kaczynski, who is serving a life sentence for mail bombings that killed three people and injured 28 between 1978 and 1995, singled out university professors, scientists and business leaders in a self-styled campaign against what he considered the degrading effect that modern technology and industrial development have on human life and individual freedom."