Theodore Kaczynski
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Theodore John Kaczynski, Ph.D., also known as the Unabomber (born May 22, 1942) is an American terrorist who attempted to fight against what he perceived as the evils of technological progress by sending mail bombs to various people over almost eighteen years, killing three and wounding 29. He was the target of the FBI's most expensive manhunt ever.
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Interviews
- But what first motivated me wasn’t anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so forth...
- Interview with the Earth First! Journal, Administrative Maximum Facility Prison, Florence, Colorado, USA, June 1999.
- The big problem is that people don't believe a revolution is possible, and it is not possible precisely because they do not believe it is possible.
- Interview from primitivism.com
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Industrial Society and Its Future
- If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.
- "Introduction", item 3
- 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.
- "Feelings of Inferiority", item 12
- [W]e are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not.
- "Oversocialization", item 25
- Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
- "The Power Process", item 36
- In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.
- "Surrogate Activities", item 40
- And then there are unthinking, animal types who seem to be satisfied with a purely physical sense of power (the good combat soldier, who gets his sense of power by developing fighting skills that he is quite content to use in blind obedience to his superiors).
- "Autonomy", item 43
- Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. but we do not believe they are enough to account for the extent of the problems that are seen today.
- "Sources Of Social Problems", item 53
- A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.
- "Disruption Of The Power Process In Modern Society", item 64
- Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process.
- "How Some People Adjust", item 81
- In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.
- "The Motives of Scientists", item 87
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