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Most of you guys are wrong about it. Which I don't blame you since ISaiF is a very chaotic and poorly written work (and thus, I insist that The Anti-Tech Revolution should be his major work, not this)

I am the guy currently writing a Samizdat about Kaczynski and reading this thread brought me to research deeper what TK meant by all of that in Technological Slavery.
The answer is in the Letter to David Skrbina from January 3rd 2005, quote:

>"I’ve never said that surrogate activities “must be abandoned.” Also, the line between surrogate activities and purposeful activities often is not easy to draw. See ISAIF, §§40, 84, 90. And surrogate activities are not peculiar to modern society. What is true is that surrogate activities have come to play an unusual, disproportionate, and exaggerated role in modern society. …In any case, I don’t see that anything would be accomplished by attacking surrogate activities. But I think that the concept of surrogate activity is important for an understanding of the psychology of modern man."

Technological Slavery, p. 304; I also recommend to read his letter in pp. 273-285 where he talks a little about it.