The Unabomber: Is He Serious?
There comes a time when everyone has something to say. The next step
would be to find someone to listen. If that doesn't work, I suppose you just
have to make them listen.
The Unabomber's Manifesto was probably one of the most interesting and
thought provoking points of view that I have read in a while. It's just too bad
that every time he made a point that I could relate with, he would contradict
himself before I was finished with the paragraph. In my opinion, the entire
manifesto and every viewpoint expressed therein, was a strange mix of confusion,
fact and storytelling. Although written with an abundance of detail and many
strong convictions, I finished reading the selection ...
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have to be industry
and technology of all things. He was convinced that due to the industrial-
technological system in which we live, ultimately humans are going to be
subjected to world wide suffering and inevitably a total shut down of humanity.
Now at this moment I felt a little disbelief. I had heard he was actually an
intelligent person, but I was starting to wonder.
His whole theory was based on the fact, that at one point or another,
the human race will be taken to the point of complete break down. He feels that
if it's bound to happen, we should make it happen now. The longer we wait, the
more people will suffer. Now, I know our sun will eventually burn out, so does
that mean that it should be the concern of everyone on the planet to devise a
method to destroy it immediately and save us the trouble of having to do it
later? I guess I wasn't too surprised when I read how he intended to induce an
early break down with a revolution, but the next thing I read left me a ...
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to group everyone in the world into two groups: the
weak, and the weaker. There are the leftists, or the ones who should the social
rebels, and the oversocialized, or the ones who have to grow up obeying
society's rules.
Now, I feel it wouldn't matter which category he placed me in.
According to him, people jump from one group to another constantly. Either
group, in his opinion, has deteriorated into a flock of sheep. No one has a
mind of their own, nor do we stand up for ourselves, nor believe in anything.
He believes that due to this evil industrial-technological society in which we
live, everyone operates with low self esteem, guilt, and self-hatred. Because
we think we're so ...
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