the unabomber manifesto
2022-05-01
"Industrial Society and it's future (The Unabomber Manifesto)"
A controversial book, that has some valid arguments, on some of the
systemic issues of our modern society.
I was first introduced to this book
in a video by Luck Smith
a while ago.
The origin of the book it self, is interesting on it's own,
but this article will focus as much as possible on the
content of the work it self.
This book has good explanations of what is the modern
political LEFT, how it operates, and what are it's driving
motives.
The author of the book
developed a reasoning for the modern leftist
mentality, and decipher how
the modern leftist ideology
is fundamentally toxic and hypocritical.
I think that if one feel insulted or triggered by this work,
this person prove the point, that the book is making.
A lot of the general conclusion in this book
are almost prophetic, by how accurate they are,
and how well they can be use to demystify
current event.
My highlights from the book:
- Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.
- The leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society to solve everyone's problems for them, satisfy everyone's needs for them, take care of them.
- modern leftish philosopher tend to dismiss reason, science, objective reality, and to insist that everything is culturally relative.
- The leftist hate science and rationality, because they classify certain beliefs as true (i.e. successful, superior) and other beliefs as false (i.e failed, inferior). The leftist's feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness.
- Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. Leftists prefer to give a society the credit or blame for an individual's ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is "inferior" it is not his fault, but society's, because he has not been brought up properly.
- Much leftist behavior is not rationally calculated to be of benefit to the people whom the leftists claim to be trying to help.
- We are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not.
- The oversocialized person cannot even experience, without guilt, thought or feelings that are contrary to the accepted morality; he cannot think...
- If they engage in violence they claim to be fighting against racism or the like.
We have seen a lot of the toxic leftism describe in this book in modern movements "The woke", "SJW", "BLM", "Antifa" comes to mind, some of these movements might have been started with good intention, but the end result is the same.
Every request past a state of equality is a request for inequality. The one who keep demanding more after equality is reach is abusing. Once the balance restored, any more push in the same direction, will only tip it the other way.
when the process needs to be unfair to produce equality in the result, then what you have is an unjust society.
No society is more unjust, then one where everyone is equal.
Outside of the meritocracy, their is only reward for the undeserving.
I have seen the hypocrisy of the left, the irony of their actions, how the modern left is deluded and idealistic, how their plan for a "better future" only bring us closer to chaos and inequality.
I think that no matter what we can think of the radical actions of the author, we should not dismiss some of the wise argument he made in his book.
"The problems of the leftist are indicative of the problems of our society as a whole." ~ Theodore Kaczynski