To sympathize with a prisoner, a very scary sentence indeed, I admit. But I believe you will agree with me at the end of the article.Imagine a society that exposes people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy and then gives them drugs to dispel their unhappiness. Is this science fiction?
It all started with watching Netflix's Manhunt: Unabomber. If there was no warning at the beginning of the series that it was based on real events, I would not have researched this much nor would I have written an article about it. But the more I researched, the more my interest in the subject grew. Finally, I started to sympathize with the Unabomber when I read the famous manifesto.
Before I come to the manifesto, I think I need to talk a little bit about the Unabomber, our hero, Theodore John Kaczynski. Kaczynski, born in Chicago in 1942, is a terrorist who made 16 separate bomb attacks in the United States between 1978 and 1995, causing 3 deaths and 23 injuries in total. The FBI used the initials of university and airline bomber because it mostly targets universities and airlines; Unabomber.
Being extremely clever, Kaczynski skipped two grades in high school and was accepted to Harvard University at the age of 16 and completed his doctorate at the age of 25. Since he was used as a subject in mind control experiments at Harvard University, his already corrupt psychology was further impaired. Kaczynski with an IQ of 167 (Average IQ of a normal person is between 91-110) is a complete math genius. After working as a lecturer for 2 years, he resigned and started to live in a technology-free cottage in Montana, in a forest area with no electricity and water.
Kaczynski, who started to live in this hut, turned the hut into a bomb factory and his first attack was carried out in 1978 by Prof. He did it by sending a bomb in the form of a letter to B. Cist. The security guard who opened the letter was slightly injured. Kaczynski, who also sent many of the bombs he prepared by mail, signed FC (Freedom Club) on the indestructible place of the bombs and on the letters he sent. This request of Kaczynski, who said in a letter he sent in 1995 that he would stop his actions in return for the publication of his manifesto named Industrial Society and It’s Future in major newspapers, was accepted and the manifesto of approximately 35 thousand words was published in the major newspapers of America.
When Kaczynski's brother David was among those who read the manifesto, he suspected the style of the manifesto and notified his brother to the FBI. Kaczynski's lawyers, who were captured in 1996, denied this, although they developed a defense that he was mentally unstable. He must have thought that no one takes the words of a crazy man seriously that his death has changed to madness. Despite this, the court-appointed expert panel diagnosed Kaczynski with severe paranoid schizophrenia. Kaczynski, who survived the death penalty in 1998, was sentenced to life imprisonment with no way of appeal, and is still in prison.
Kaczynski already stated why they treated Kaczynski a sick person while writing the manifesto. When you read the entire manifesto, you understand so well (you are horrified) that Kaczynski did not simply criticize the system, but officially struck us how people were turned into obedient slaves by the system. When I started to read the manifesto, the first question that came to my mind was, how nice things you said, did you necessarily have to kill people?
Another thing that draws my attention while reading the manifesto is that the entire manifesto is written in first person plural. How many people believe in Kaczynski's views I could not find any information about it. Or, I don't know if there are people living on the basis of what was written in the manifesto. But no matter how much Kaczynski believes in this view, he mentions this reservation somewhere in the manifesto. In other words, even if there is a transition from an industrial-technological structure to a primitive life, the continuity of this life is enigmatic.
If the industrial-technological structure is able to rebuild itself - most likely - the question is automatically asked what is the need for so much fuss. However, Kaczynski explained at length how to make a revolution against the industrial-technological structure and how to apply a strategy for this revolution. The underlying idea of the strategy is; industrial-technological structure is not a structure that can be demolished no matter how hard you try. In certain periods, the strength of this structure weakens and we can end the industrial-technological structure by strengthening this weakening.
The best thing the system can do is to get us people into the system. We are forced into the system one way or another and we are not aware of it. There are many arguments the system has developed in order to do this.
