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Kaczynski is obviously in no way a philosophical vegan, he has more supporters among primitivist anti-vegans.
The main reason for the creation of this page was simply to harness the sortable tables function to create the most comprehensive sortable list of books found in his cabin.
As well, this page will be used as an unironic attempt to try and call him out, for the few people who need to hear it, so that fewer otherwise productive activists fall down the eco-purist rabbit hole. However, that doesn't mean we're completely against platforming his writing alongside critiques.
Finally, here’s a timeline of key events that I think led to Ted Kaczynski becoming violent & events in which he could have been stopped with either a compassionate ear for his guilty feelings or a better police investigation:
- Separated from parents as a baby or his parents inability to cope when their child misbehaved, so to blame his behavior on this experience.
- Moved forward a year at school whilst failing to make sure he maintained friendships, rather than taking a year off to travel with family.
- Parents/teachers/counselors failing to talk through his desire for escape in primitive life as a desire to escape bullying, earlier education in politics.
- Attending Harvard a year early without taking the time to travel and explore the world.
- Unwittingly joining psych experiments that would be used by the CIA for developing torture techniques, where ideally people would have voted in parties outlawing these practices before they ever happened.
- Projected his feelings of inadequacy onto women for not knowing how to start a relationship with them.
- Inability to discuss his sexual fantasies of becoming a woman in order to get to be intimate with a woman to a councilor. Coming away with stronger suicidal ideation, as well as now the first desire to kill through a murder suicide, due to his shame at not being able to find a relationship turning into hatred at society for regimenting his life and making him this way.
- Kaczynski showed a letter to his brother, parents and romantic interest that he planned ‘violence of a serious nature’ against this romantic interest who had broken off their romance, but no steps were taken to either get him help or report him. And journal entries later revealed that he brought with him a knife in a paper bag.
- Kaczynski proposed founding an organization dedicated to stopping federal aid to scientific research, thereby preventing the “ceaseless extension of society’s powers. He sent this essay, similar to the manifesto he’d later write to a few politicians and would often write anti-technology essays to newspapers and favorite authors. If the FBI had put more focused callouts for information, then one of these people may have tipped off the FBI sooner.
- Felt shame later about his sadism towards animals.
- Briefly felt shame about having crippled the arm of a man who was an airline pilot.
- Felt shame about the innocent people he would have killed on an airliner he attempted to blow up.
Contents
The Manifesto - Industrial Society and its Future
The contents of the manifesto are surprisingly cogent to many:
At 35,000 words, Industrial Society and Its Future lays very detailed blame on technology for destroying human-scale communities. Kaczynski contends that the Industrial Revolution harmed the human race by developing into a sociopolitical order that subjugates human needs beneath its own. This system, he wrote, destroys nature and suppresses individual freedom. In short, humans adapt to machines rather than vice versa, resulting in a society hostile to human potential.Kaczynski indicts technological progress for its destruction of small human communities and the rise of uninhabitable cities controlled by an unaccountable state. He contends that this relentless technological progress will not dissipate on its own, because individual technological advancements are seen as good despite the sum effects of this progress. Kaczynski describes modern society as defending against dissent an order in which individuals are "adjusted" to fit the system and those outside the system are seen as "bad".
This tendency, he says, gives rise to expansive police powers, mind-numbing mass media, and indiscriminate promotion of drugs. He criticizes both big government and big business as the inevitable result of industrialization, and holds scientists and "technophiles" responsible for recklessly pursuing power through technological advancements.
He argues that this industrialized system's collapse will be devastating and that quickening the collapse—before industrialization further progresses—will mitigate the devastation's impact. He justifies the trade-offs that come with losing industrial society as being worth the cost. Kaczynski's ideal revolution seeks not to overthrow government, but rather, the economic and technological foundation of modern society. He seeks to destroy existing society and protect the wilderness, the antithesis of technology.
Zerzan also explained…
[B]y the way he told me he got his ideas from Elull, it’s an American vernacular version of the technological society, that’s his great gift, that’s his great plus, he made it very readable, … the original translation in English is hard to read, it has that abstract classical mode of the way French are taught to write and it’s very off-putting I think in the rest of the world.I think everyone can agree that it’s good to get more variation in digestible versions of philosophy books and essays.
However, Kaczynski didn’t include some central elements of Ellul’s politics which are wholly sensible. Ellul valued using more minimal viable use technologies where practicable for one’s own mental health and the environment, but he wasn’t for destroying all industrial level technology:
If we see technique as nothing but objects that can be useful (and we need to check whether they are indeed useful); and if we stop believing in technique for its own sake or that of society; and if we stop fearing technique, and treat it as one thing among many others, then we destroy the basis for the power technique has over humanity.
Ellul is a very admirable person for having played a very active role in the French Resistance.
Similarly to how George Orwell talks about getting to experience a glimpse of a more ideal world in anarchist Catalonia, Ellul writes fondly of the communalist caring society the bravest in society were able to build together under the noses of the fascist regime:
In 1944, at the Liberation, I was part of the Movement of National Liberation, I even held certain positions in it, and had begun to believe the dream we had been dreaming during the last few years of the Resistance, often expressed by the saying that we were going to move from Resistance to Revolution. But when we said that-and I would like to point out that Camus first used it in 1943 in combat groups-we did not mean a Communist, Stalinist, Soviet revolution. We meant a fundamental revolution of society, and we made great plans for transforming the press, the media, and the economic structures. They all had elements of socialism, to be sure; but I would say it was more of a Proudhonian socialism, going back to grassroots by means of a federative and cooperative approach.
The main problem with Ellul is simply that he infused many of his sensible arguments against technological overconsumption with fundamentally irrational Christian premises that were entirely unnecessary and make the argument fail for anyone who isn't a believing Christian. For example, he often posits that only Christian culture has been able to help with this problem in the past, and that only through more dedication to a peaceful Christian culture can we be saved from the problems we exist with today.
These weak arguments then inevitably lead to someone like Kaczynski coming along who buys the religiously apocalyptic vision, but not the proposed solution.
So, I wish Kaczynski had picked up a book that had a more secular critique of technological overconsumption that was harder to dismiss in its reformist prescriptions, but it may have just been a case of finding almost any book to justify his desires.
Ellul did in fact predict someone might try to twist his tech minimalist philosophy to justify violence and dedicated many books to arguing how we simply need a peaceful avoidance of engaging with high tech society in situations where we can use the minimum viable technology for the task we want to get done. But obviously Kaczynski dismissed these arguments:
Sean: There are several ideas that Kaczynski takes from Ellul. One is that human beings are maladapted to life in a technological society I discussed that at the beginning the basic idea is that human beings evolved in a primitive Stone Age environment we're still genetically hunter-gatherers but now we've been thrust into this world of concrete and steel and we're psychologically ill-equipped to deal with that.Griffin: Genetics don't evolve that quickly.
Sean: Well yeah that's right and so that is one idea. Now it's notable though that for Ellul the mismatch between human beings and the technological society was more social than biological and Elull thought that the problem was that our norms and morals and social structures and communities can't evolve fast enough to keep up with technology, whereas Kaczynski wasn't concerned so much about those things he was concerned about our biology, so already there they diverge but the basic idea that we're maladapted or maladjusted to technology comes from Ellul.
The second idea is the idea that technology is autonomous that it is a force beyond human control it can't be subject to rational human control that technology constitutes a self-perpetuating system this also comes from Ellul this is probably a rules most famous idea and it's papered all over Kaczynski's writings.
There are also lots of little bits and pieces, so there's the idea that technology is the opposite of nature, that also comes from Ellul. In part the idea of revolution comes from Ellul though Kaczynski takes it in his own direction.
The least obvious thing that comes from Ellul is the idea that leftism is a form of pseudo-revolution so this is one of the big arguments in in industrial society and its future and the one I think that has puzzled readers the most so you open up industrial society in its future and he starts talking about technology and what it's done to us and then in the very first main section he talks about leftism he talks about how the left is psychologically perverted and he says that the left essentially co-ops the revolutionary impulse and channels it into benign outlets outlets that are harmless to the system.
Griffin: So he sees social activism as in little's terms a form of useless revolt it makes us feel better but it doesn't really do anything. …
Sean: I don't think Ellul has any fixed concept of human nature. This is one fundamental difference between Kaczynski. So again for Ellul the problem with technology is that it has outstripped the evolution of our social structures and communities and norms you know the mismatch between us and technology is sociological rather than biological right it's not based on human nature and I think judging by the first part of the technological society Ellul thinks that in the past we were perfectly capable of resisting the pull of technique, so he talks about several different societies that resisted the urge to prioritize means over ends, so first he says look at the ancient Greeks, the ancient Greeks were incredibly sophisticated philosophically and scientifically but he claims they had contempt for practical application, they could have used their knowledge to manipulate the world, but they didn't, they wanted to understand it, so he says for the Greeks there was a stark division between science understanding of the world and technique/application.
And then he says you can see this later on in in Christian societies you know from the roman empire to the I don't remember whether he says the early Christian society or even up through the middle ages Christianity posed a difficult barrier to the expansion of technique so Christianity was the sort of sound in the gears of the machine nothing could be developed without moral criticism, so early Christianity created this kind of external vantage point from which to criticize technique, so it was a constant source of judgment that technique couldn't overcome.
So for Ellul it's not human nature that's decisive, it's culture that's decisive.
Ted Kaczynski's seized possessions
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- Remington Model .700 3006 #6292650
- One .22 caliber revolver and nine .22 caliber rounds of ammunition.
- .25 caliber gun (Raven Arms), magazine w/six bullets, and one bullet
- Ammunition for .22 caliber
- Ammunition
- Smokeless powder from Remington .30-06 Bronze Points
- Black Powder and Smokeless Powder
- (Control Sample) One Winchester Super X Shotgun Round
Bomb Making Material
- Plastic jar containing triggering devices
- Improvised explosive device (IED)
- Pipebomb
- Trigger switch
- Bomb components
- Metal tubes, wiring, springs, ball trigger, stapler, 9V battery, and small copper colored tubing
- Copper colored tubing
- Bottle marked "Calumet" containing white powder
- Plastic container with white clumpy powder
- Plastic bottle with black chunky material in paper and hand labeled "mezel #2, nuevo lote exp 103"
- Container of white powder labeled KC103 potassium 99.95% pure
- Container of white powder
- Container of yellow crystals
- Container of white powder
- Six sealed bottles labeled sulfur
- Yellow powder labeled sulfur
- Jar of white crystalline substance and not ammonium nitrate
- One gallon jug labeled "abietic acid"
- Bottle labeled "ammonium nitrate"
- Two cans in bags labeled "abietic acid"
- Two bottles labeled as aluminum
- Various containers marked as "aluminum materials"
- One plastic container labeled "citric acid" containing white powder
- One plastic bottle containing metallic granular material
- Calumet double action baking powder metal container containing a lump of metal
- One cut portion of a battery
- Small plastic container with brownish-black powder
- One brown plastic container containing trace material
- Glass jar with red metal lid containing clumps of silver substance
- One metal can containing misc pieces of copper
- One small brown plastic bottle with aluminum filings
- Small orange plastic container with Notation Ag Cl
- Bottle with label Manganese Dioxide
- Bottle with notation lithorgeiminium free lead
- Orange container with notation Fe2 03
- Small plastic tube containing blue powder
- Small glass jar with notation NH4 Cl Ammonium Chloride
- One small white plastic bottle with notation "lead chloride"
- Whitish bottle containing grey powder
- Small brown plastic bottle with label Na2 Co3
- Whitish plastic bottle with notation Fe2
- Small brown plastic bottle with notation lead acetate, lead hydroxide, lead carbonate
- One Calumet baking powder can with notation Fe 045
- White bottle labeled HDC 0923-0371-03 Powdered Alum
- White plastic bottled labeled McKesson Boric Acid Crystals HF
- One "Grape Super Sip" bottle with notation Fe2 03
- Small clear glass "Folgers" jar with greenish-grey crystals
- White plastic McKesson Boric Acid Powder HF bottle
- One whitish plastic "Raspberry super sip" bottle with notation AgCl
- White bottle with notations
- Clear glass jar with notation "amorphous carbon"
- Metal can with notation "alder charcoal"
- Whitish plastic container with label potassium carbonate
- Rod shaped pieces of dark colored/blackish power
- One small glass jar with small amount of gold, shiny granules and flakes
- Plastic bread bag with five small containers containing various chemicals
- One tan plastic shopping bag containing three aluminum fail envelopes with notations
- One white plastic bag containing "flash powder"
- Round metal can with notation Na2CO3
- One brown plastic bottle with notation crude KC1O3
- Blue powder substance
- White plastic bottle with notation CaSO4
- Brown plastic bottle with notation "mostly Kcl"
- One metal can containing large black particles
- One glass bottle with label "McKesson Glycerin USP"
- Liquid from bottle marked "Sodium Tartrate"
- Liquid from bottle marked "KC1"
- Whitish plastic bottle with label "McKesson Saltpeter (Potassium Nitrate)
- Small brown bottle with notation "crude KCLO3
- One clear plastic bottle with notation "crude KCLO3"
- One round cardboard and metal cannister containing silver-grey powder substance
- Two small white cardboard boxes labeled "potassium chromate"
- One white plastic shopping bag containing a white powdery substance
- One small plastic container with notation BaSO4
- One clear glass jar with notation "Curic Hydroxide?"
- Whitish plastic bottle with label "McKesson Boric Acid Crystals"
- One white plastic bottle, with label "Flowers of Sulfur"
- One large whitish plastic jar containing white powdery substance
- Outer pipe with attached metal fragments
- Pipe shaving and filler
- End plug/metal fragments
- Tape and twine, outer wrap of pipe
- Improvised detonator and filler
- Small orange plastic container with notation Silver oxide Ag2O
- One small clear glass jar with notation "washed charcoal"
- One small orange plastic container with notation Fe2O3
- One round metal can containing a powdery substance
- One Quaker Yellow Corn Meal can containing white powdery substance
- One white plastic jar labeled Tartaric acid
- Plastic bucket containing thick black material
- Metal container of black granular material
- Metal container containing white powder material
- Three plastic bottles labeled "alcohol" containing liquid
- Large plastic container labeled NaCl3 + NaCl
- Bottle of white powder labeled NaCl
- Unknown powder
- Glass bottle containing clear liquid
- One white plastic container of white powder
- Plastic container of white powder
- Two plastic containers with white crystalline material
A Bizarre Window Into History
April 17, 2001: McVeigh Declines Animal Rights Group Request to Make Last Meal VegetarianConvicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, whose execution is rapidly approaching (see January 16, 2001), politely declines a request by the animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) that he make his last meal a vegetarian one. In a handwritten letter responding to PETA’s request, McVeigh writes that he sympathizes with the group’s cause, but will not make that request. PETA issued the request through the prison warden, stating that McVeigh’s last meal should have no meat because “Mr. McVeigh should not be allowed to take even one more life.” The warden refused, and PETA sent the request directly to McVeigh.
“Truth is, I understand your cause—I’ve seen slaughter houses myself—but I still believe in reasonable taking and eating of game (as an outdoorsman and hunter),” he writes. “My one main problem with the ‘veg’ movement is this (besides the fact I’m a libertarian): Where do you draw the line and what standard is used to define that line?” McVeigh questions whether “grubs/worms/etc.” suffer. He also argues that “plants are alive, too. They react to stimuli (including pain); have circulatory systems, etc.… To me, the answer is as the Indians believed: respect for the life you take to sustain yourself, but come to terms with your place in the ‘food chain.’”
He congratulates the organization on the media attention it has garnered as a result of the request, writing: “You should have seen the local editorial response to your letter. You gotta remember, this is meat-eatin’ farm country; still, good job getting the attention to your cause (like protesting dead rats on [the popular television reality show] ‘Survivor’).” McVeigh closes by saying he cannot “sustain a prolonged intellectual debate on the subject, as my time is short” but suggests the organization should contact his friend Ted Kaczynski, an inmate of the Florence, Colorado, “supermax” prison that until recently housed McVeigh, whom McVeigh says would be more likely to take up the vegetarian issue.
