Re: Ted Kaczynsky aka the unabomber found dead in cell Archived Message
Posted by Fionn on June 11, 2023, 10:11 pm, in reply to "Re: Ted Kaczynsky aka the unabomber found dead in cell"
The interesting thing about Kaczynski was that he was a subject in the CIA's MK Ultra mind-control programme long before he became the unabomber. The trauma of that experience understandably shaped his thoughts of society. A recent article about that, which I couldn't be bothered reading as it's the WP: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/06/11/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-harvard-experiment/ He was heavily influenced by Jacques Ellul and his book 'The Technological Society'. Not sure how much details he goes into about a post-industrial society but Darren Allen says of him in 32 Myths of the System: Kaczynsky's analysis of the consequences of being deprived of purposeless doing is peerless. The role of conscious being does not, however, figure in his work; which explains the fact that he felt killing university professors was a good idea. More from Allen on this vein of anarcho-primitivist thinking in general: https://expressiveegg.org/2021/12/29/the-technological-system/
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