89. It is true that some restrictions on our freedom could be eliminated, but GENERALLY SPEAKING the regulation of our lives by large organizations is necessary for the functioning of industrial-technological society. If you think that big government interferes in your life too much NOW, just wait till the government starts regulating the genetic constitution of your children. 39. If reformers ever achieved a signal victory that seemed to set up a solid barrier against further erosion of freedom through technical progress, most would tend to relax and turn their attention to more agreeable pursuits. In many other ways as well, modern man is strapped down by a network of rules and regulations (explicit or implicit) that frustrate many of his impulses and thus interfere with the power process. In 1971 Dr. Theodore Kaczynski rejected modern society and moved to a primitive cabin in the woods of Montana. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. It certainly would if an attempt were made to introduce such control all at once. 107. It has been suggested, for example, that a great development of the service industries might provide work for human beings. Even so, our conception of leftism will remain a good deal less clear than we would wish, but there doesn't seem to be any remedy for this. Imagine trying to make that wire without modern machinery. If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions, we can't make any conjectures as to the results, because it is impossible to guess how such machines might behave. 128. Sylvan Learning Centers, for example, have had great success in motivating children to study, and psychological techniques are also used with more or less success in many conventional schools. The network of causes and effects is far too complex to be untangled and understood. Similarly, in any enterprise within a socialist system, workers must direct their efforts toward the goals of the enterprise, otherwise the enterprise will not serve its purpose as part of the system. Yet scientists in these areas are just as enthusiastic about their work as those who develop vaccines or study air pollution. Les États-Unis l'appelaient "Unabomber ".De 1978 à 1996, Before dealing with disruption of the power process as a source of social problems we will discuss some of the other sources. When that is attained he insists on statistical equality of achievement by minorities. At first he will have a lot of fun, but by and by he will become acutely bored and demoralized. The radical environmentalists ALREADY hold an ideology that exalts nature and opposes technology. 149. These people should be addressed on as rational a level as possible. Besides, even preindustrial societies can do significant damage to nature. Other motives do play a role for many scientists. ���vGm� Ґ�r��4���jb��D��;[�;�D�n�w�*�pfU�����]��q����{�� �3�P�_FguL�?���>�\�d�r�E ڪ2~Z����^?������[� ��O� On the contrary, once the hard times are over the system will increase its control over people and nature more rapidly, because it will no longer be hampered by difficulties of the kind that it is currently experiencing. For example, the system needs scientists, mathematicians and engineers. A code of ethics applicable to genetic engineering would be in effect a means of regulating the genetic constitution of human beings. But organizationdependent technology DOES regress when the social organization on which it depends breaks down. Autres éditions - … When motor vehicles were introduced they appeared to increase man's freedom. The crypto-leftist tries to bring people under control of the system because he is a True Believer in a collectivistic ideology. 219. It has been established beyond any rational doubt that human thought and behavior have a largely biological basis. 174. It would be inhumane to do otherwise, since the child would probably have a miserable life if he grew up to be a criminal. 175. Suppose you asked leftists to make a list of ALL the things that were wrong with society, and then suppose you instituted EVERY social change that they demanded. [28] Each new step in the assertion of control over the human mind will be taken as a rational response to a problem that faces society, such as curing alcoholism, reducing the crime rate or inducing young people to study science and engineering. They are unaware of (or choose to ignore) the fact that when large changes, even seemingly beneficial ones, are introduced into a society, they lead to a long sequence of other changes, most of which are impossible to predict (paragraph 103). Or take the gypsies. What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines' decisions. and its loss is easily obscured by propaganda and fancy talk. But in what does this preservation of African American culture consist? In doing so they actually harm black people, because the activists' hostile attitude toward the white majority tends to intensify race hatred. 61. Even if the grosser ill effects could be avoided through superhumanly skillful management, still people would have to begin giving up the luxuries to which they have become addicted. Avant même la publication du manifeste, le frère de Ted Kaczynski, David Kaczynski, était encouragé par sa femme Linda à dénoncer son frère, mais restait sceptique. Reform is always restrained by the fear of painful consequences if changes go too far. In many cases there will be a humanitarian justification. Such an invented religion would probably be a failure. Assuming that industrial society survives, it is likely that technology will eventually acquire something approaching complete control over human behavior. These values are explicitly or implicitly expressed or presupposed in most of the material presented to us by the mainstream communications media and the educational system. In doing so they will be worsening the population problem only slightly. Robespierre did this in the French Revolution, the Bolsheviks did it in the Russian Revolution, the communists did it in Spain in 1938 and Castro and his followers did it in Cuba. The system may become a unitary, monolithic organization, or it may be more or less fragmented and consist of a number of organizations coexisting in a relationship that includes elements of both cooperation and competition, just as today the government, the corporations and other large organizations both cooperate and compete with one another. 36. As a matter of strategy one should generally avoid blaming the public. Any illusions about achieving anything permanent through social arrangements should be dispelled by what is currently happening with environmental legislation. 63. They will see to it that everyone's physical needs are satisfied, that all children are raised under psychologically hygienic conditions, that everyone has a wholesome hobby to keep him busy, and that anyone who may become dissatisfied undergoes "treatment" to cure his "problem." Thus it is clear that the human race has at best a very limited capacity for solving even relatively straightforward social problems. But it is easy to see that neither of these can be the principal motive of most scientists. But suppose now that the computer scientists do not succeed in developing artificial intelligence, so that human work remains necessary. Once the powerhungry types have captured control of the movement, there are many leftists of a gentler breed who inwardly disapprove of many of the actions of the leaders, but cannot bring themselves to oppose them. He often takes a moralistic tone. A change in human behavior will affect the economy of a society and its physical environment; the economy will affect the environment and vice versa, and the changes in the economy and the environment will affect human behavior in complex, unpredictable ways; and so forth. [29] Of course most parents whose children possess the trait will have them undergo the therapy. 142. But it was a step along the road that English-speaking world was already traveling. All the same, we are reasonably confident that the general outlines of the picture we have painted here are roughly correct. On the other hand there have also been many pre-industrial cultures in which material acquisition has played an important role. Text of Unabomber Manifesto. 200. 154. And maybe his (well-sublimated) drive for power is stronger than that of the average bourgeois. 177. A few days later, after reading Industrial Society and Its Future, David was unconvinced. To fight each of the threats separately would be futile. %%EOF We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT. 10. The oversocialized person cannot even experience, without guilt, thoughts or feelings that are contrary to the accepted morality; he cannot think "unclean" thoughts. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the industrial-technological system. Efforts to make room for a sense of purpose and for autonomy within the system are no better than a joke. 13. One should think twice before encouraging any other social conflict than that between the power-holding elite (which wields technology) and the general public (over which technology exerts its power). For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. The machines might be permitted to make all of their own decisions without human oversight, or else human control over the machines might be retained. En 1995, Ted Kaczynski envoie plusieurs lettres, dont certaines à ses victimes et d'autres à de grands médias, décrivant ses objectifs et exigeant que son manifeste Industrial Society and Its Future soit imprimé mot pour mot par un journal ou une revue majeure. Without factorymade parts or the facilities of a postindustrial machine shop it would be virtually impossible for a handful of local craftsmen to build a refrigerator. Poverty must be "cured" because the underclass causes problems for the system and contact with the underclass lowers the morale of the other classes. But he can accept the risk of disease stoically. Everyone has goals; if nothing else, to obtain the physical necessities of life: food, water and whatever clothing and shelter are made necessary by the climate. 112. The power process is the process of satisfying the drives of the second group. That is, WILD nature: those aspects of the functioning of the Earth and its living things that are independent of human management and free of human interference and control. Money and status for example. If they give in to that temptation, they will fall right back into the technological trap, because modern technology is a unified, tightly organized system, so that, in order to retain SOME technology, one finds oneself obliged to retain MOST technology, hence one ends up sacrificing only token amounts of technology. on a conservé le titre de l'article tel qu'on l'a trouv é ici « La violence aux mains du peuple n'est pas la violence, mais la justice. The industrial system will not break down purely as a result of revolutionary action. 29. Les États-Unis l'appelaient « Unabomber ». Some animal rights activists have gone so far as to reject the word "pet" and insist on its replacement by "animal companion". 8. The same will happen with leftists and technology: They will use it to oppress everyone else if they ever get it under their own control. People with a genetic tendency to diabetes will then be able to survive and reproduce as well as anyone else. So it is very probable that in their attempts to end poverty and disease, engineer docile, happy personalities and so forth, the technophiles will create social systems that are terribly troubled, even more so than the present one. Varieties of leftists fade out gradually into varieties of non-leftists and we ourselves would often be hard-pressed to decide whether a given individual is or is not a leftist. It is true that in many societies religion has served as a support and justification for the established order, but it is also true that religion has often provided a basis for rebellion. Hence any change designed to protect freedom from technology would be contrary to a fundamental trend in the development of our society. And where would they get a gas suitable for refrigeration? Theodore Kaczynski 1995 INTRODUCTION 1. In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs. A walking man formerly could go where he pleased, go at his own pace without observing any traffic regulations, and was independent of technological support-systems. In the city he continually has to stop to wait for traffic lights that are designed mainly to serve auto traffic. But of course it won't stop there. And the mathematician Claude Shannon was quoted in Omni (August 1987) as saying, "I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.". On those who are employed, ever-increasing demands will be placed: They will need more and more training, more and more ability, and will have to be ever more reliable, conforming and docile, because they will be more and more like cells of a giant organism. More importantly, the leftist hates science and rationality because they classify certain beliefs as true (i.e., successful, superior) and other beliefs as false (i.e., failed, inferior). As we mentioned in paragraph 134, industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems. 163. But if these machines had never been invented there would have been no conflict and no frustration generated by them.). In the meantime there will be great suffering. But propaganda is propaganda regardless of the purpose for which it is used. (However, many of the people we are referring to as "leftists" do not think of themselves as leftists and would not describe their system of beliefs as leftism. Free trade agreements like NAFTA and GATT are probably harmful to the environment in the short run, but in the long run they may perhaps be advantageous because they foster economic interdependence between nations. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful. He tends to identify with victims. Whatever else may be the case, it is certain that technology is creating for human beings a new physical and social environment radically different from the spectrum of environments to which natural selection has adapted the human race physically and psychologically. Technicians (we use this term in its broad sense to describe all those who perform a specialized task that requires training) tend to be so involved in their work (their surrogate activity) that when a conflict arises between their technical work and freedom, they almost always decide in favor of their technical work. The greatest danger is that industrial society may begin to reconstitute itself within the first few years after the breakdown. Yeah, sure. (Paragraph 143) We don't mean to suggest that the efficiency or the potential for survival of a society has always been inversely proportional to the amount of pressure or discomfort to which the society subjects people. Ted Kaczynski was a genius. Human nature being what it is, social justice would not come about spontaneously; it would have to be enforced. Our use of mass entertainment is "optional": No law requires us to watch television, listen to the radio, read magazines. By the fourth principle, when revolutionaries or utopians set up a new kind of society, it never works out as planned. [8]. Thus human nature has in the past put certain limits on the development of societies. 103. It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Some scientists may be persons of the type who have an insatiable drive for status (see paragraph 79) and this may provide much of the motivation for their work. Corporations and government agencies, when they find it useful, do not hesitate to collect information about individuals without regard to their privacy. Opportunities tend to be those that the system provides, the opportunities must be exploited in accord with rules and regulations [13], and techniques prescribed by experts must be followed if there is to be a chance of success. Take the refrigerator for example. 159. With ‘Industrial Society & Its future’ Theodore Kaczynski, was seeking to construct an objective view of society that informed and resulted in his rejection of society as a whole. What we are trying to get at in discussing leftism is not so much movement or an ideology as a psychological type, or rather a collection of related types. It will certainly subject human being to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in "advanced" countries. During the first half of the 20th century leftism could have been practically identified with socialism. Their efforts must be undertaken on their own initiative and must be under their own direction and control. Such a society MUST be highly organized and decisions HAVE TO be made that affect very large numbers of people. The disintegration of small-scale social groups is also promoted by the fact that modern conditions often require or tempt individuals to move to new locations, separating themselves from their communities. Thus an advanced industrial society can tolerate only those small-scale communities that are emasculated, tamed and made into tools of the system. Even if medical progress could be maintained without the rest of the technological system, it would by itself bring certain evils.

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