> Tomorrow's Kaczynskis will be able to concoct harmful viruses and insinuate them into the food supply, or perhaps release pathogens in public places. You'll n

> Tomorrow's Kaczynskis will be able to concoct harmful viruses and insinuate them into the food supply, or perhaps release pathogens in public places. You'll need to be ready for them. TK was heavily in the news back then so it's no surprise they predicted more people like him may be causing mayhem at a far bigger scale. I don't think this kind of terror is likely though since people rather commit suicide before going down TK's path. They mentioned TK but didn't go into what drove him to criminal insanity: environmental destruction due to systems thinking (TK got heavily influenced by Jacques Ellul's "La Technique" and references him throughout his writings). Difference from 2000 I see today which I wouldn't have imagined in my worst nightmare is environmental destruction. The places where I went diving in the 90ies: like Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Thailand, Indonesia's "ring of fire", that were full of life back then, they are now underwater wastelands. The primal forests / jungle I trekked in North Sumatra are nearly burnt down and forests of Borneo under threat from total destruction thanks to the new capitol they want to buid there. Apes such as Orang-Utans (Malaysian for "forest-man") nearly extinct. The beaches where I hung out in my early 20ies are now full of plastic and need to be cleared daily otherwise tourism there wouldn't be possible at all. I'm not TK but I do wish humanity wouldn't be "making leaps and bounds globally" because we destroy our own home and therefore ourselves for no reason other than pure greed. When the human race makes leaps and bounds it also leaps further towards its own demise. And I wonder if this is unique to humans or if other species given enough time would also race towards their own destruction in such fashion. And if capable of language would they describe their leaping as progress or would they be smarter and see it for what it is? We need to think of ways to reduce our population back down to size for the planet to recover and in correct proportion to our surrounding. Because thinking that we can just use smarter-Tech or geo-engineering will destroy us. The only way to get there is less of us. I already had kids so it's too late for me. But I hope I won't be a grandparent, and I hope other people also stop reproducing. I also cheer for this virus to wipe out as many as it can, even it means I or my loved ones die. Not because I'm a lunatic but because it's the only fair way (without a human deciding who is removed from the gene-pool). I also hope people will voluntarily opt not to have children but I think that's just a fantasy and example of dangerous systems thinking (who would enforce such insanity?). https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah