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The Unibomber's Manifesto predicted leftist hypocrisy

>Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is war-like, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.

Why do so many people here like this hermit incel?

>>17101071
uncle ted isn't against civilisation just industry, you should still read it
he actually published (from prison) a scathing critique of anarcho-primitivism

Wow lads just finished the manifesto... is he the dumbest math professor of all time?

Just off the top of my mind I'd say De Botton, Roger Scruton, Nick Land, Alain de Benoist, Galen Strawson, Aleksandr Dugin, David Chalmers, Guillaume Faye, Christof Koch and Kaczynski.

>And now, a new study published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, says it could get much, much hotter if we don’t do something about it. In this paper, an international team of climate scientists led by Will Steffen and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber explain that, thanks to human activities, the planet is well on its way to a “Hothouse Earth” scenario.

>In a Hothouse Earth, global average temperatures would rise 4–5° C (7–9° F) and sea levels will rise 10–60 meters (33–200 feet) above today’s levels. This would be catastrophic for many aspects of modern civilization. Many agricultural regions would become too hot and arid to sustain crops, making it impossible to feed large swaths of humanity. Low-lying coastal areas would disappear or become uninhabitable without massive engineering efforts, displacing hundreds of millions of people.
Can we finally admit that Ted was right about everything?

>he bombed people so his points are wrong
>i can't separate the message from the man
Boy I sure hate normies.

>>11149962

>implying the contemporary systems are worth anything in the first place

What books should a 26 year old virgin read?

Hello guys, so I'm turning 24 in a few months and I've all but given up on becoming rich and famous.
My only remaining dream is to buy a small forest cottage and living only off of the land, gradually becoming more and more self-sufficient hopefully to the point of not needing to rely on anyone but myself, Ted Kaczynski style.

I'm currently an industry worker making slightly above minimum wage and saving as much as I can for this purpose and I would be grateful if you could give me a few book recommendations on a similar subject to the very blurry image I have in my mind.

Anything related to small-scale agriculture, hunting, fishing and just basic survival I'm interested in.

Thanks in advance

What are some banned books that are actually worth reading and not just edgy

>>8722944
Authors/artists/storytellers will always pour their souls into the most capable mediums.

Books will always be lame, disrespectable, tiring, pretentious, academia-muzzled throwbacks if there are more powerful mediums available. (and even moreso if there are other gadgets more capable than ereaders, if there are fluid/coloured screens for computers more capable than e-paper)

>17. Art forms that appeal to modern leftist intellectuals tend to focus on sordidness, defeat and despair, or else they take an orgiastic tone, throwing off rational control as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation and all that was left was to immerse oneself in the sensations of the moment.

>44. But for most people it is through the power process-having a goal, making an AUTONOMOUS effort and attaining the goal-that self-esteem, self-confidence and a sense of power are acquired. When one does not have adequate opportunity to go throughout the power process the consequences are (depending on the individual and on the way the power process is disrupted) boredom, demoralization, low self-esteem, inferiority feelings, defeatism, depression, anxiety, guilt, frustration, hostility, spouse or child abuse, insatiable hedonism, abnormal sexual behavior, sleep disorders, eating disorders, etc

>57. The difference, we argue, is that modern man has the sense (largely justified) that change is IMPOSED on him, whereas the 19th century frontiersman had the sense (also largely justified) that he created change himself, by his own choice. Thus a pioneer settled on a piece of land of his own choosing and made it into a farm through his own effort. In those days an entire county might have only a couple of hundred inhabitants and was a far more isolated and autonomous entity than a modern county is. Hence the pioneer farmer participated as a member of a relatively small group in the creation of a new, ordered community. One may well question whether the creation of this community was an improvement, but at any rate it satisfied the pioneer's need for the power process.

http://cyber.eserver.org/unabom.txt

>mfw i realized i've been over-socialized

This is the plot line of the Unabomber

Survivalist lit?

I have no idea how to live off the land, so to speak, recommendations to remedy this? I wish to learn, as quickly as possible, how to identify edible vegetation, how to construct a fire in any situation, how to provide myself with shelter, how to track/hunt /trap animals for food, etc. Recommendations?

>>5476688
13. Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of
groups that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American
Indians), repellent (homosexuals), or otherwise inferior. The leftists
themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit
it to themselves that they have such feelings, but it is precisely
because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with
their problems.

>>5186461
10. By "feelings of inferiority" we mean not only inferiority feelings in the strictest sense but a whole spectrum of related traits: low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, depressive tendencies, defeatism, guilt, self-hatred, etc. We argue that modern leftists tend to have such feelings (possibly more or less repressed) and that these feelings are decisive in determining the direction of modern leftism.

11. When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him (or about groups with whom he identifies) we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem. This tendency is pronounced among minority rights advocates, whether or not they belong to the minority groups whose rights they defend. They are hypersensitive about the words used to designate minorities. The terms "negro," "oriental," "handicapped" or "chick" for an African, an Asian, a disabled person or a woman originally had no derogatory connotation. "Broad" and "chick" were merely the feminine equivalents of "guy," "dude" or "fellow." The negative connotations have been attached to these terms by the activists themselves. Some animal rights advocates have gone so far as to reject the word "pet" and insist on its replacement by "animal companion." Leftist anthropologists go to great lengths to avoid saying anything about primitive peoples that could conceivably be interpreted as negative. They want to replace the word "primitive" by "nonliterate." They seem almost paranoid about anything that might suggest that any primitive culture is inferior to our own. (We do not mean to imply that primitive cultures ARE inferior to ours. We merely point out the hypersensitivity of leftish anthropologists.)

12. Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society. Political correctness has its stronghold among university professors, who have secure employment with comfortable salaries, and the majority of whom are heterosexual, white males from middle-class families.

13. Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American Indians), repellent (homosexuals), or otherwise inferior. The leftists themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit it to themselves that they have such feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with their problems. (We do not suggest that women, Indians, etc., ARE inferior; we are only making a point about leftist psychology).

What does /lit/ think of Ted Kaczynski's ideas?

I want to talk about the Unabomber's manifesto.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm

Is there any merit in it? Are there any academic critiques of it?

I warned you. Why didn't you stop it?

I don't really know a lot about this stuff, but can someone please explain to me how mind uploading and all this crap won't inevitably end up with humanity constantly plugged into some virtual reality simulation or worse engineered in such a way that we're in a constant state of euphoria and no longer have to do anything to be happy?

You know what to do.