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[Anonymous No.19502462]

I want to learn more about Ted Kaczynski and his philosophy. Should I start off with the manifesto or some of his later stuff? I'm afraid the manifesto might be more of a draft but also afraid that some of the later stuff might be ill-informed considering he's behind bars.

All tips and information welcome and appreciated.

[Anonymous No.19502490]

>>19502462
Technological Slavery includes the manifesto.

[Anonymous No.19502503]

just read jaques ellul's propaganda and technological society. ted wasn't all too original

[Anonymous No.19502621]

>>19502503
havent heard ellul bombing his MKUltra prof to death

ted was the goat

[Anonymous No.19502637]

>>19502462
The manifesto is short and should be read because it's funny and occasionally insightful. I also recommend reading the beginning of Anti Tech Revolution because he approaches his concept of the system with greater rigor there. I dont agree with what he says entirely but it's a very interesting way to look at how society progresses, and there is definitely an element of truth to it.

His larping about revolution should obviously be ignored

[Anonymous No.19502663]

Unabomber had no philosophy, but somehow he figured it out that modernity was a fatal mistake. French guy Jacques Ellul deeply influenced him. Read Ellul instead.

"Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient milieu to which he was adapted for hundreds of thousands of years… . In our cities there is no more day or night or heat or cold. But there is overpopulation, thralldom to press and television, total absence of purpose. All men are constrained by means external to them to ends equally external. The further the technical mechanism develops that allows us to escape natural necessity, the more we are subjected to artificial technical necessities." — Jacques Ellul

[Anonymous No.19502823]

>>19502663
>In our cities there is no more day or night or heat or cold. But there is overpopulation, thralldom to press and television, total absence of purpose.
Maybe during this was true during the economic boom time when it was written but broke as fuck zoom zooms can't even afford a house nowadays, let alone the children to populate them. Poorfags like myself can't afford to have every light in their house turned on 24/7 or have their house heated to summer temps in winter., this just seems like a rich guy with too much free time making up problems.

[Anonymous No.19502860]

>>19502462
Get a job in a factory and start reading the manifesto. Personally, I have had this experience.

[Anonymous No.19502896]

>>19502462
>>19502490
>>19502503
>>19502621
>>19502637
>>19502663
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>>19502860
Here's your "uncle" ted bro:

https://youtu.be/-YlkCdSRuWQ?t=508

[Anonymous No.19502903]

>>19502896
>I know I'll reply to every post, that will get their attention

[Anonymous No.19503136]

>>19502896
ok?

[Anonymous No.19504248]

>>19502896
Unabomber's big problem was he couldn't get laid. No pussy at all even when he was a professor.

[Anonymous No.19504413]

>>19502503
He wasn't trying to be original. He had the intellectual honesty to admit he was dumbing down Ellul to make his manifesto readable to the masses.