/lit/ - Literature

What happened, Tedbros? We used to always have one of these up.
Texts can be found on theanarchistlibrary.org

I just finished reading Ted Kaczynski's manifesto. Through out he would often say "we" in context that wouldn't make since for him to be talking in 2nd/ 3rd person. I read after that he would often leave the initials "FC" short for "Freedom Club" on the caps of many of his bombs. But everything I read about him says he worked alone. Was he fucking with the FBI or are there others that worked with him still out there?

>>20292593
>technology improves over time

>>20253806
There isn't a single government structure (or any self-propagating social structure in general) that gives a shit about Buddhism or any human value for that matter.

Part 1 out of 2
Note: Part 2 gives my actual question. Part 1 is a rough summary.

I've recently read Ted Kaczynski's manifesto in full. The main argument about how leftism bolsters the technological-industrial order was well-defended. Leftism stems from feelings of inferiority and "oversocialization", which refers to excessively following societal norms and feeling guilt over minor transgressions. Ted also established his most kernel claim of the "power process", which encompasses the autonomous goal-oriented processes central to human nature (e.g., hunting, farming, etc.); however, after industrialization, man has disrupted the power process with surrogate activities such as highly specialized scientific endeavors, mass media, and so on, and this led to great lack of fulfillment, higher prevalence of mental illness, and loss of connection with nature. Leftists see themselves as rebels, but they are in fact the biggest supports of the techno-industrial system due to treating their "activism" as a "surrogate activity" in their power process, and feminism and minority rights are merely pretexts for their insatiable totalitarian drive for power, always inventing new problems, which merely strengthens the industrial order with greater loss of autonomy.

Ted draws a distinction between small-scale technology and organization dependent technology, and the main distinction lies in that the latter requires a massively interconnected technological system to sustain. For example, any individual can learn to create a bronze shovel, but you need an industrial system to create a refrigerator due to the manufactured parts necessary. Ted also spends much time analyzing how prior to industrialization, man's life was oriented to fulfill the power process (e.g., cattle herder, farmer, etc. bringing food to table), but industrialization led to disruption of the power process, stripping man of his autonomy, by forcing him to become "educated" in supporting the interconnected industrial system. The system will never accommodate itself to man, and man has to change himself to accommodate the system. This is a concerning thought because we are heading in the direction of genetic engineering of human beings.

In short, organization-dependent technology have led to immense issues: breakdown of local communities, loss of autonomy, crowding, loss of privacy, lack of fulfillment, future genetic engineering, and so on. I have only given a rough summary.

Rest in power, king
https://www.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/smc0de/ted_kaczynski_has_been_diagnosed_with_cancer/

>Wrote his manifesto manually 4 times on a typewriter from memory
Kneel to Polish autism.

Is he just the ultimate humanist philosopher?

Marx has likened the Hindu weaver to a spider, and this comparison expresses his scorn for manual labor, just as he attributed a certain dullness and stupidity to the life of the peasants whose work, at the time, was predominantly done by hand. But is the factory weaver any less a spider? Judged by its basic assumptions, Marxism is a modified Spinozism, and it suffers from the errors of Spinoza's system. The notion that manual labor is monotonous and that this so-called tedious monotony is eliminated by technical progress – this notion is false. The opposite is true. Nor does the heavy, dirty work that man has to do grow less, for there is no decrease in the number of rubbish piles and sewers in the world. Manual labor does not at all decrease with the advance of the machine; rather it increases and, so far as it is in the service of the machine, it changes in its nature.