Ted's methods to wake sheeple up were a bit too extreme, but he was a genius looney ahead of his time.
I think Dr. Timothy Leary was at Harvard around same time frame as Ted in which Leary, Aldous Huxley, and David McClelland were on the The Harvard Psilocybin Project. All their acid was ordered from Swiss-based company Sandoz, which is now Novartis International AG, a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland. Largest in the world.
What did Timothy McVeigh, Jack Ruby, Sirhan Sirhan, Patty Hearst, Ted Kaczynski, Charles Manson, and a LSD overdosed dead elephant all have in common?
Louis Jolyon "Jolly" West.
MKULTRA & False Memory Syndrome Foundation. Those white lab coat guys are scary.
Were the Unabomber’s Predictions About Technology Correct?
Billionaire John Brockman's meditations on cybernetics, "we are the technologies, you are a neural net" is rather chilling too, from "The Net": (Das Netz) The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet (2003, Germany; 2019 USA, Anthology Film Archives, NYC)
Ted Kaczynski criticized the idea of technological immortality proposed by transhumanist Ray Kurzweil in his 2016 book.
“There are many people today who see that modern society is heading toward disaster in one form or another, and who moreover recognize technology as the common thread linking the principal dangers that hang over us… The purpose of this book is to show people how to begin thinking in practical, grand-strategic terms about what must be done in order to get our society off the road to destruction that it is now on.”
— Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2020) by Theodore John Kaczynski.
Full copy of his first edition published in 2016 at Archive.org | updated 2020 version at Amazon.
Even more extreme (fictional?) case that has stuck in my head for 20 years is Arlington Road (1999):
That movie is interesting to look back on because while OKC is clearly the main influence, the politics of Tim Robbins terrorist group is never really touched upon. They are just said to be anti-government, but not far right like McVeigh or the militia movement / circle of Bill Cooper of the 90s.
I think Dr. Timothy Leary was at Harvard around same time frame as Ted in which Leary, Aldous Huxley, and David McClelland were on the The Harvard Psilocybin Project. All their acid was ordered from Swiss-based company Sandoz, which is now Novartis International AG, a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland. Largest in the world.
What did Timothy McVeigh, Jack Ruby, Sirhan Sirhan, Patty Hearst, Ted Kaczynski, Charles Manson, and a LSD overdosed dead elephant all have in common?
Louis Jolyon "Jolly" West.
MKULTRA & False Memory Syndrome Foundation. Those white lab coat guys are scary.
Were the Unabomber’s Predictions About Technology Correct?
Billionaire John Brockman's meditations on cybernetics, "we are the technologies, you are a neural net" is rather chilling too, from "The Net": (Das Netz) The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet (2003, Germany; 2019 USA, Anthology Film Archives, NYC)
Quote:The System’s Neatest Trick by Ted Kaczynski.
The System has played a trick on today's would-be revolutionaries and rebels. The trick is so cute that if it had been consciously planned one would have to admire it for its almost mathematical elegance.
1. What the System Is Not
Let's begin by making clear what the System is not. The System is not George W. Bush and his advisers and appointees, it is not the cops who maltreat protesters, it is not the CEOs of the multinational corporations, and it is not the Frankensteins in their laboratories who criminally tinker with the genes of living things. All of these people are servants of the System, but in themselves they do not constitute the System. In particular, the personal and individual values, attitudes, beliefs, and behavior of any of these people may be significantly in conflict with the needs of the System.
Ted Kaczynski criticized the idea of technological immortality proposed by transhumanist Ray Kurzweil in his 2016 book.
“There are many people today who see that modern society is heading toward disaster in one form or another, and who moreover recognize technology as the common thread linking the principal dangers that hang over us… The purpose of this book is to show people how to begin thinking in practical, grand-strategic terms about what must be done in order to get our society off the road to destruction that it is now on.”
— Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2020) by Theodore John Kaczynski.
Full copy of his first edition published in 2016 at Archive.org | updated 2020 version at Amazon.
Even more extreme (fictional?) case that has stuck in my head for 20 years is Arlington Road (1999):
That movie is interesting to look back on because while OKC is clearly the main influence, the politics of Tim Robbins terrorist group is never really touched upon. They are just said to be anti-government, but not far right like McVeigh or the militia movement / circle of Bill Cooper of the 90s.
One of the most dangerous trends of our times is making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with "hate speech" laws. — Thomas Sowell