Reddit reviews Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. "The Unabomber"

I've read his manifesto and some of his other writings. They were published in book form here: https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Slavery-Collected-Kaczynski-k/dp/1932595805

He's probably not crazy. He looked crazy when he was arrested, for sure. And his manifesto sometimes reads like he's unhinged, but that's mostly because he had to use all caps a lot for emphasis because his typewriter didn't have itallics, and so it sounds like he's shouting. But he's actually just extremely anti-technology to the point of violent resistance. Court psychologists had mixed opinions.

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>Amazon does, however, continue to sell the following works:
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>Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto — the manifesto of a movement that murdered more than 100 million people, specifically targeting an entire class of people — the bourgeoisie — for destruction; for sale in many editions from the richest capitalist in the world
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>Leon Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism — a defense of political terrorism
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>Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf  — also available in many editions — which is apparently less threatening to the current world order than my book.
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>The Unabomber’s Manifesto — which does seem to create a moral hazard. Want to get your book published? Start mailing out package bombs. Kill three people and injure 23 others, and your book might also be fit to stock at Amazon.com.
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>Valerie Solanas’ S.C.U.M. Manifesto — S.C.U.M. being an acronym for Society to Cut Up Men. Solanas published her manifesto in 1967. In 1968, she attempted to murder Andy Warhol.
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>The Anarchist’s Cookbook — corrected and updated to make it extra lethal
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>Osama Bin Laden’s Messages to the World — mastermind one of history’s greatest terrorist attacks, and you too might be fit to stock at Amazon.com
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>Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah — apparently there’s a whole library of books by Islamist terrorists for sale at Amazon.com
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>Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State — the blueprint of the Zionist movement, which spawned the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine through terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and wars that continue to this day
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>Black Nationalist Manifestos by such writers as Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad
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>Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don’t: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof
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>Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare
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>Al-Qaida’s Doctrine for Insurgency: Abd al-Aziz al-Muqrin’s “a Practical Course for Guerrilla War”

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HERE (PDF)

Link is found on the author's (Gary Greenberg's) website.

Ted K. did not write a "memoir" himself. According to Greenberg; "In the Kingdom of the Unabomber is my account of my attempt to break into the writing racket by making friends with Ted Kaczynski."

If you mean Ted K's own "unabomber" writings (the manifesto), they are HERE

EDIT: he/him clarity

empiricism implies that we cannot trust our brains. it eventually leads to reductionism (IMO) which implies everything can be (objectively) be boiled down to numbers as a final truth. its a very toxic and very new idea. when numbers become truth it has no other option but to turn society away from God (an atheist society is weak and foundationless) if you are really interested more about my viewpoints on this heres some reading that explains some of it better than i ever could:

https://www.amazon.com/Metaphysical-Foundations-Modern-Science/dp/0486425517


https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Society-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394703901

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Superstition-Refutation-New-Atheism/dp/1587314525

https://www.amazon.com/Libido-Dominandi-Liberation-Political-Control/dp/1587314657 (this one is slightly less relevant but does go into how often empirical science's end goal is looking at humans as machines and how that is dehumanizing and controlling)

https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Against-Modern-World-Julius/dp/089281506X

https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Slavery-Collected-Kaczynski-k/dp/1932595805/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=11DZHECERPHPBMFXWJKR

Absolutely this. Spot on.

> Use TOR or something to read it.

Oh, just read it on the Washington Post website. Do you really think swat teams will descend on you if don't anonymise your access? (and do you really think TOR will keep you safe if they seriously want to know what you're up to anyway?)

Or you can buy it on Amazon, and get several other excellent works in the same volume.

His violent methods were deluded and inexcusable (not least because they were always doomed to fail, and his targets were pointlessly random,) but his analysis is some of the most insightful I have ever read. Everyone should read him as part of a balanced political education, whether they ultimately choose to agree with him or not.

Because that is how we learn to use our brains (not by the thought-free yammering of politically correct slogans like too many of the left engage in.)

I know the ideas of balance, challenging one's own viewpoints and reading anything originating outside the progressive bubble are anathema to the leftards who've been running the asylum lately, but that is exactly the problem. And it's completely unhinged and infantilised our society over the course of the last several generations.

There's no coming back from this I'm afraid - the damage is done, and it's terminal.

The last time I looked for Kazcynski's books on amazon there was nothing. Now there is a title:

Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. "The Unabomber"

The cover is a cutaway of a box bomb photo. I wonder if anybody would get alarmed if you pulled that out and started reading the thing on the airplane or on the other side of the security check-in at the airport.

The Alston Chase book is really good and there were long excerpts published in the Atlantic which you can see online. The part I will never forget is he went to a shrink when he was at U. Michigan and told the shrink he wanted to sex-change because:

> "only by becoming a woman could he hope to touch one".

p 305 on my copy

Ouch

Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski

http://www.amazon.com/Technological-Slavery-Collected-Kaczynski-k/dp/1932595805/

http://www.libgen.info/view.php?id=535770

David Skrbina, a professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, Dearborn kept up a correspondence with Kaczynski (while he was in prison) for years, collected his responses and published them in this book:

Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. "The Unabomber"

Here's why I am worried about GMO and don't think it should be done: We have this japanese weed, an alien basically that ended up over here somehow. Our plants are used to fighting each other for survival. It's used to struggling for survival in its own ecosystem. Those are 2 different worlds.

So this weed has been growing like crazy, outgrowing everything we have. It strangles our plants. The garden people have to do culls where they go rip tonnes of it out of the ground and throw it away.

Legions of science autists that scraped through their exams with sleep deprivation on excesses of adderal might be able to hyperfocus on a DNA code and rearrange it to make the most optimized wheat possible. A "zippy-wheat" if you will. But they can't understand mother nature and it's ecosystems and all the plants and their interrelationships. It's a culture of people with their eyes open but they're asleep at the wheel.

Remember the bit about cybernetics in 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace' where they put all this information about what type of grass each animal was eating each day and they thought it would predict the future? People are smart but we aren't gods. We cannot meddle with the primal forces of nature. DNA is sacred. Controlling it is far far to powerful, it could create an ultraweed that is completely alien to our planet and completely unstoppable. It's too easy to drop a match and burn down the entire city of london.

People like carl sagan talked a lot about how we safely navigated through nuclear proliferation and didn't end up destroying all life on the planet. It makes us feel like we can do anything and get away with it, but this isn't true. There are 'doomsday' seed vaults to help us survive a catastrophe like some crazy GM plant swamping everything else out of existence but catastrophe can be avoided all together by having caution and accepting our human limitations.

Buy my book on amazon where i go into more detail on this

John Zerzan, Derrick Jensen, and (somewhat unfortunately) Ted Kaczynski all have excellent writings touching on this subject. Amazon.com ironically enough sells all of them which is what I have linked for a bit of information on them. I highly recommend finding a local bookstore that will order them.

EDIT: Don't really understand the downvotes. Is it because I didn't try to answer the question and gave book suggestions, because anarchists aren't supposed to mention Kaczynski anymore, or because more recently everyone hates john zerzan and derrick jensen now?