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Unibomber Manifesto (1995)
- JoeyBananas 5y agoThis is the best manifesto I've ever read by far.
- gscott 5y agoI only recently read it and I was surprised how he predicted social media and it's consequences (although certainly was speaking of existing things but wow so dead on in many ways). He could have published a book and not needed to bomb anyone.
- wmf 5y agoHave you heard of Jacques Ellul? No? He published a book or two and didn't bomb anyone... and only academics have even heard of him.
- plorg 5y agoI read both Ellul and OP in engineering ethics class in my underground. But fair point, most of my colleagues were pretty disinterested in the material.
- JoeyBananas 5y agoKaczynski writes: > In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we’ve had to kill people. I can't really argue with this, I doubt this essay would have reached as wide of an audience as it did if he didn't kill anyone.
- jjeaff 5y agoI think we would be surprised at how few people actually have read this manifesto vs simply a popular book.
- badmadrad 5y agoReason is Kaczynski was actually a genius intellectual that went mad. His observations in many ways are completely accurate. His solutions are naive, as he thinks these things could have been corrected. They must take their course unfortunately.
- eevilspock 5y agoI hope you're being sarcastic. I stopped a couple of paras into the Feelings of Inferiority section. This guy is a bitter, unloved and loveless incel.
- JoeyBananas 5y agoI don't think that there is anything in this manifesto that warrants labeling the author as an I-word.
- Isamu 5y ago> In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we’ve had to kill people. Not all cranks are in this category, but there are a few.
- sharadov 5y agoIt's Unabomber, not Unibomber.