Was the Unabomber Right?

Bibliography:
The Unabomber’s Manifesto by Kaczynski
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
A Hunter Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st century by Weinstein
The History of Manners by Norbert Elias
The Total State by Auron Macintyre
Tyranny Inc by Ahmari
The Revolt of the Elites by Lasch
The Anxious Generation by John Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jon Haidt
The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate
The Elephant in the Brain by Simler
Europe Emerges by Reynolds
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Debt by David Graeber
The Dictators by Richard Overy
The Geography of Nowhere by Kunstler
The Story of Work by Lucassen
The Lonely Crowd by Riesman
The Origins of Ideology by Imannuel Todd
Lineages of Modernity by Immaneul Todd
Ultrasociety by Peter Turchin
Seeing like a State by James Scott
Leviathan and its Enemies by Sam Francis
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
After Liberalism by Gottfried
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
The Decay of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
The WEIRDest people in the world by Joseph Heinrech
The Story of Philosophy by Bertrand Russel
The Founder Effect by Samo Burja

[cosmicllama]

The story of the Mexican fisherman sums it up nicely:

An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, “only a little while. The American then asked why didn’t he stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs. The American then asked, “but what do you do with the rest of your time?”

The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siestas with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine, and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life.” The American scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat, you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing, and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually New York City, where you will run your expanding enterprise.”

The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all take?”

To which the American replied, “15 – 20 years.”

“But what then?” Asked the Mexican.

The American laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions!”

“Millions – then what?”

The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siestas with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos.”

[buryitdeep]

Government agencies cant get me, Im on a sloped driveway.

[Darkworldxl]

If you weren’t already on a list, you are now.

[sissyrayself]

Suicide. Rape. Why can't we just SAY these words? It is so weird that words can be removed from our speech.

[livingbeings]

Many years ago I lived in a very small town for a couple of years. When i say small i mean very small and remote. There was a guy there who would ride around town on a bicycle wearing a motorcycle helmet and do idiosyncratic but harmless things. One day he rode past while i was in the yard talking with my old-timer neighbor. He told me that the guy had been the smartest guy to ever come from the town. A real true genius among hillbillies. When he went off to an ivy league school, the whole town was proud of who they’d raised. He returned a few years later a basket case. “They destroyed him” my neighbor said, welling up with tears. “Experimented.” It was as if the one accomplishment this town had ever achieved had been destroyed, his mind mutilated. The whole town lost trust in outsiders after that, but they took care of the guy. That was the first i heard of mkultr.

[SuperAwesomeWeirdGuy]

The fact that you got a sponsor for this video is impressive as hell

[enoughothis]

"But I don’t want to go among mad people, " Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that, " said the Cat: "we’re all mad here."

[johnnycaralta]

I'm a huge fan of how this dude perfectly described why big cities are shitholes and nobody should live in them.

[Sidera]

When I was 15 we were in English class and had to do an experiment where we broke into groups and designed a utopia. We then had to debate the other groups as to which one would work.

My group refused to listen or work with me because I argued that utopias were not possible and that man as species wasn't designed for it.

When they told the teacher, she asked me what my views were and I told her. She said, "Wow, that reminds me of the Unabomber."

I had no idea what the Unabomber's views were until this video today.

[TimotejFedlimid-zohy]

"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think." ~ Aldous Huxley

[roadbone]

My dad's an academic, and although he's smart in many ways, he has a clear string bias towards academics and seems to view them as saints. Example:
One time I told him about a Harvard professor ( Glenn Wallis) who said his mission is to "destroy Buddhism". My dad immediately said I didn't know what I was talking about because "no professor would ever say something so insensitive". (Even though Glenn Wallis did say that on record).
My dad just automatically defends academics no matter what.

[mikew]

I've been thinking lately how the One Ring in LOTR is very analogous to technology in general and smart phones specifically. Like the one ring smart phones give you great power but slowly destroy you. The one ring makes you invisible to the normal world, look around, everyone is buried in their phones, are they really there IRL? The one ring grants Sauron constant surveillance of you, how many eyes and ears are on these devices we carry around 24/7? Imagine Frodo in Mt Doom with the ring in his hand, except that its you and it's your smart phone, no so easy to let go.

Look around at the world and the state of technology, the internet, smart phones, all of it, and the direction we seem to be going. These words suddenly gain new meaning "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."

Great video!

[Elmersglue]

The analysis on family connections being replaced by the bureaucracy blew my mind and is completely changing the way I view society. Keep up the good work Rudyard

[cmcarranza]

I had an ex-girlfriend, with whom I watched a TK documentary on Netflix. It was the first time I had ever been exposed to his ideas. Keep in mind, my ex was an over-medicated, hyper-sensitive, modern, romance book reading, tiktok brained, cat girl with little understanding of self-restraint. I remember, after watching the documentary, we sat on the couch and sipped wine while talking about the whole thing. I remember stating that I found his ideas wholly true and sound, while his methods were reprehensible. She was appalled. She stated, "but we are so much better off in modern times because all the advancements in technology allows us to be happier". I then asked her, "are you truly happy, though?" She didn't understand. It was then I realized that he was right about everything and my ex was a visible manifestation of all that he warned about, and she couldn't see through it at all. She will defend the system of her enslavement until the day she dies and believe that I'm the crazy one for believing otherwise.

[peterborkowski]

It is better to call him Dr Kaczynski instead of the scare-label which the police created. His book Industrial Society and its Future is essential reading for his observations about psychological types and activism. The media never mention that many professors still use it in college course reading lists.

[TheUltraBeast]

I did a whole paper over him in my senior level philosophy class in college.
One story I remember undercovering about him his mom told was that one day she trapped a rabbit that was eating her vegetable garden. Some kids from the neighborhood around 10 years old came back to his house with his brother, and saw the rabbit trapped in the cage. They started beating the cage with sticks, and laughing as the rabbit bashed itself against the inside as it paniced trying to escape.
Ted saw this and flew into a blind rage and cursed them until the kids ran home, then freed the rabbit. He couldnt stand to see things caged even as a child.

Also the story about him crying every day for months after being rejected at harvard by a girl he really liked. Breaks my heart to think about how deeply his terrible intelligence made him suffer; and the fact that he became that rabbit in a cage that angered him so. For the majority of his life.

[kostaftp]

"The Matrix is a system, Neo.
That system is our enemy.
But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see?
Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters.
The very minds of the people we are trying to save.
But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy.
You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged.
And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."

- Morpheus, The Matrix

[julian]

Your FBI guy is winning a lot of bets RN 😂

[TeeteringTod]

The watch list isn't actually all that bad. It's the no-fly list you have to worry about.

[chairzombie]

About schizophrenia diagnoses. The Soviets used to diagnose dissidents with schizophrenia and institutionalize them. The excuse of course was, you must be schizophrenic if you deny and oppose the obvious truth of socialism.

The similarities are striking