Ted Kaczynski is not only a good emissary for antitechnological thought, he is the greatest emissary by a vast margin. You can turn up your nose at his terrorist campaign, but the fact is that it achieved its objective of spreading his manifesto into the wider world and is the only reason anybody outside of academia has even considered these ideas.
Which ignores that Kaczynski's ur-father, Jacques Ellul (and Ellul's own ur-mother Simone Weil) was an ardent and committed pacifist.
Which is why nobody has ever heard of him outside of niche academic circles and why I am less inclined to take his work seriously compared to Kaczynski, who has demonstrated a far greater practical understanding of how things work in the real world.
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Ted Kaczynski is not only a good emissary for antitechnological thought, he is the greatest emissary by a vast margin. You can turn up your nose at his terrorist campaign, but the fact is that it achieved its objective of spreading his manifesto into the wider world and is the only reason anybody outside of academia has even considered these ideas.
Which is why nobody has ever heard of him outside of niche academic circles and why I am less inclined to take his work seriously compared to Kaczynski, who has demonstrated a far greater practical understanding of how things work in the real world.
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