I'm just here to let you know this guy's condition caused him to kill people. Killing people is not tolerable. Don't think you found some nugget of wisdom from a serial killer because you find taking schizo meds to be inconvenient.
Are you going to start murdering and maiming people? Don't go to the doctor EVER if you feel like that EVER This pathetic failure of a man was just murderous weirdo who hurt innocent people
It is truly disturbing how balanced this story is between complete insanity and wisdom. It makes me wonder how slippery the transition into madness is.
Our times will become interesting enough to where many, many more will find out, and once they do, won't care that they are, for they will just be one of the crowd again.
It's even more disturbing than that: the Unabomber has never gone mad. His reasoning has always been valid. The solutions he suggested (and inacted) seem mad, because they were supposed to solve a conundrum he himself analyzed does not allow for a solution. If we view it through the lense of Thomas Sowell ("There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.") it makes perfect sense: trying to trade in an all-encompassing system must necessarily appear gruesome and mad from within that system, for you're a part of that system (albeit not benefitting from it in a meaningful way), hence you're part of what is to be traded in. Of course his bombings went nowhere and must therefore be considered an act of senseless violence (a.k.a. madness). But I believe that he was pretty much aware of that fact right from the start and the real purpose of the bombings was to grant him sufficient prominence for his manifesto to be published. Such a clear, calculated purpose, I would argue, is the opposite of madness. And that's what makes it even more disturbing for me than simply ascertaining that he must have gone mad at some point: if, through perfectly valid reasoning, you arrive at a point from where on violence is inevitable, then there must be something deeply wrong with the system.
I don't exactly think his methods were unjust. If technology was going to literally destroy thousands of human lives, kill its creators. There was no other way. It was for a greater cause, a greater good. Ted Kaczynski would not be known today if he hadn't exercised his methods. Ethics and morals are out of question for the doom of modern humanity.
@@ishredder4006nobody is saying that, nobody really knows the real way to incite the change we want, but clearly his way did not work they way her wanted it to
Kaczynski's two books are both must reads: "Technological Slavery" and "Anti-Tech Revolution". Everyone has heard of his manifesto, but few people realize he wrote and published these two other books from prison that go far beyond the manifesto and contain a ton of research and analysis.
I have never heard a more enlightening statement than “Taking medications to tolerate conditions you naturally find intolerable” Our world is under a depression epidemic and the solution that system provides is a pill that makes you accept the unacceptable, work longer and extract more value for.. the system.. who both invented your solution and caused your problem.
That is the Soma Society that Brave New World examines. The system is everything, so when the system gets you down or stressed...take a Soma holiday. It's Miller Time.
There is no sudden depression epidemic, just a renewed celebrity in being in depression or having psychotic breaks with reality. 150 years ago saloons were filled with people trying to drink away the pain of hard work, and leisure set trying to find short escape from promises not fulfilled. This gen may grow our of it as the hippies of 1969 did by 1985 to where they only remember a nostalgia of wild youth. Remember that your trends are brought to you by false prophets called advertisers. They feed on discontent and confusion, and offer absolution or completion in the purchase of the next big thing or the new lifestyle or new image. Fight your victimhood by buying a new thing....BTW this message is brought to you by NewThing Enterprises. As individuals start to realize they climbed a barren mountain they wither double down to justify it by refusing to accept truth, lash out at those people that refused to buy a ticket to their circus, or stop reflect and come down to start again in a better direction.
@@STho205I see a lot online that the world is heading towards 1984 while I always thought it's becoming more like BNW. The death of the individual and the creation of man-made remedies to ease the bleakness of the world we've come to subconsciously accept. It's a book I deeply appreciate and am always happy to see brought up. Thank you.
His views on the political parties are spot on. I can't stand leftism now when I considered myself pretty liberal before 2016. Now I feel I fit into conservatism more so than anything, but he's exactly right about conservatives being fools, too. You can't make drastic changes to society like that and expect societies core values to not change.
@ST-ly8uf my honest opinion? There's nothing that can be done. You can't put pandoras contents back in the box. Technology is already too advanced. You can't go backwards technologically now. We can only go backwards mentally and spiritually. Which seems to be exactly what we're doing. The only thing left to do is treat your community and your family as good as possible. Help them in any way you can and trust that God will do what should be done. We gotta follow Jesus, bro. That's the only answer in all this. No man made solutions will work.
"Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost." -Ted
@@crazypato3752 My first guess would be to maintain the courage to keep on living. Even in the face of impossible odds, one should never give up. In this case, one should fearlessly stand against the world itself, even in the smallest ways.
@@Lucario69Master not necessarily, humans max age has been about the same it's just today's average is skewed due to less infant deaths So after surviving infant hood were the same we've always been
Its so rare and refreshing to find a TH-camr who covers a broad range of topics, and manages to do it all well, without sacrificing quality or cramming the videos full of annoying advertisements. This channel is like the conversations I wish I could have with friends.
At the sake of sounding arrogant, thats precisely how I feel. I envy the normies around me who can quietly ignore reality and pay attention to the bread and circuses instead.
@@radeon8461 yes, once you see humanity for what it is there's no unseeing it. And you can't talk to anyone about it because they'll hate you for ruining their illusion - which to be fair is valid. I wish I never went through what I went through and was allowed to keep my naivety
“I mean, technology is useful if it's used intelligently, but if it's used by people who are incompetent, then it’s not really effective.” - Ted, in an interview
This is a statement I agree with. I understand and support his premises. His solution was inept. I’m not sure we have the capacity to develop a solution but his only buried his message.
@@gottasay4766 I also agree with his concept and see it playing out today but it is too late to fix anything. Greed and corruption in production of technology is god and can not be stopped at this point.
@@gottasay4766overtime I have come to attribute his manifesto and other writings on his own beliefs, and the way he chose to react with them to his time as an MK ultra victim.
When his capture and trial were in the media, I found it really regrettable that his violent tactics overrode his clearly prescient ideas and messages. It was clear to me even as a teenager, and I've continued to feel this way. We are living in an unsustainable condition. We are on a seesaw over a pit of lava.
The world is fundamentally broken. I think most people who are honest with themselves know this. There is nothing that can or will save us. Human nature is not sustainable. But look on the bright side: we got the opportunity to be alive and experience the world before our species completely fucked it all up. And there's no need to be stressed about anything because there isn't a damn thing we can do about it. Just hold out as long as you can against the ongoing gradual apocalypse and try to enjoy the ride.
He's right but destroying advancements isn't the cure, it's human spaying. We need less useless mouthbreathers so start poisoning the mountain dew, give sex education and condoms to the shithole countries, free the women in those same places and fuck religion off.
@@user-dt8cn9gw9w Honestly, I'm getting a little tired of the recent backlash against "doomer" sentiments. If being mentally healthy means practicing self-delusion, then I'm not interested. Living in accordance with truth is far more important to me than being blissfully ignorant. Optimism is just a lie if there's no reasonable basis for it. I'd love for human society to evolve into something less pathological, but that doesn't appear to be possible. I think the best a person can do in these circumstances is face the grim truth and try to make the best of it. There's nothing defeatist about that.
@@ahobimo732There’s a supernatural realm and we go somewhere when we die. We’ve been lied to about our past and the civilizations that were. They were wayyy more smarter than us, they knew how to make equipment out of the earth unlike we do now where we have to have everything manufactured. We all have metaphysical abilities and you should research them, they don’t want us to know it and that’s why they dumb our spiritual antennas down also which is our pineal gland. we can heal ourselves naturally through a lot of meditation and concentration
I tried a few different remedies to help me tolerate the World better. The last 4 years have exacerbated my disgust even more with, well, even more crap i cannot tolerate. Thankfully i am elder now, soon on my way GONE. I look forward to this. They have fubared everything and i am livid about this. Stress apparently doesn't kill. I'd have been gone years ago. Good luck to all of you......
He was always unstable. MKULTRA just made him worse. He was already a man rejected by this world that he desperately wanted to be a part of. MKUltra just solidified his belief that he would never be a part of this world. A child not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel it's warmth. Unfortunately for all involved, ted was an exceptional arsonist.
@@number3766 Have you ever watch anime like Monster or Death Note? Johan manipulate other to kill themselves was because he believe his mother hates him and he is a rejected by the world and believe that nihilism is the only way for him. And Kira he is bright child but he hates the world because of criminal. Notice how this guy have almost the same background as these two?
@@wojakthecrusader1410Johan's plot armor made Monster so enraging to watch. All throughout the anime I screamed at characters to just SHOOT HIM FFS but they never did. The author kept hyping him up like he was an epic mastermind but he didn't live up to it at all. Did nothing impressive onscreen, just smiling with a shit-eating grin and a mile-thick plot armor. Most frustrating anime I've ever watched, and I like Seinen otherwise.
Being skipped ahead twice in school and attending college at sixteen probably shunted his ability to interact socially. I think this gets glossed over in order to talk about the experiments he participated in at Harvard. School isn’t just about book learning, we also develop the ability to socialize
Exactly that's social part is the reason why my mom refused to jump me a grade both times they asked she didn't want to stunt my socially in exchange for learning saying I could get both of my teachers did their jobs
Yeah there is a lot of truth to that. I started college at a normal age but I have autism and was bullied so I really didn't learn many social skills. College took a LONG time for me to finish and I believe that was a very significant factor. (Though not the only factor)
How dod we learn to socialize before public school? We've been a social creature since the beginning of our time on earth, while formal schooling is a very new concept.
@SuperballsSupervidsOnYT In prehistoric times people were basically around each other all the time. They were almost never alone, and children especially were never alone.
Glad to see this video. I read his manifesto years ago and was astonished to find myself agreeing with many of the points you’ve also pointed out. And as predictions come to pass I think back to it then too. Civilations always collapse and restart. It’s inevitable at the rate we are going. Either we reboot or go extinct anyways. Now I’m not advocating for someone to reboot all at once but there are ways back to nature and abandoning the destruction industrialization as we know it has brought and continues to wrought. Look at solar punk ideas next. I’d love to see it covered. There’s a great TH-camr you could do a collab with - Andrewism is the channel
dude solarpunk is cool and all but to do that you have to destroy everything you know that right? he says even if the system is reformed the world will go through a harsh period of destruction before stabilizing. and even then, our freedoms wont be returned to us
I met the guy. It was at the 1990 Earth First! gathering in Montana. There was a board that people running workshops could put the name and time of their workshop on. It was not vetted. Ted put one up called "political assassination." The local media picked it up. A lot of folks there were angry at him and wanted him to leave. I actually stuck up for him. He just seemed lie a sad old guy.
Ted’s philosophy is probably the most sober and accurate outlook on modern life ever. His methods were drastic though, and futile at that. We can’t really do nothing to stop this behemoth. One day it’ll all collapse
Unbelievably intelligent man that clearly let his frustrations get to him, ironically making his ideas sound crazy to the average normie, this having much less of an impact on the whole of society.
This is not to be a POLITICAL revo- lution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society. - Societies can not be changed consciously or purposefully - he was not necessarily saying that we should “return” to “monke” or farming, but rather that we should destroy the technological system we have today. The shape society takes is mostly up to itself and uncontrollable, but the existence of technological society is able to and should be snuffed out. That is the goal. If we would be “returning” to anything, it would be a pre technological society, where perhaps we farm or perhaps we hunt and gather or perhaps we do anything that isn’t exist with large society-scale technologies
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives. Highly recommended #RipTed
While I empathize quite a bit with what Ted described as our systemic problems, I still find myself questioning his particular fantasies of solution in returning to primitive man in nature. To me, they are deeply romanticized and just as misguided. Ted frequently disregarded and omitted many of the problems among primitive man ranging from rampant competitive infanticide to rape.
All of the problems you describe are 1. Hypothetical as noone knows what early man did or didn't do and 2. IF present would be a condition of a less evolved version of the species. If mankind now was faced with anarchy and primal life the violent would exist, but would die off very quickly in favor of those who voluntarily cooperate and live in harmony with the land and each other.
@@moosings2048 Kinda hard to believe that when the violent have been the ones to conquer and rule all throughout human history as opposed to dying off very quickly, but ok. There is also nothing hypothetical about what I described.
@@JustSomeDinosaurPerson The violent cannot survive without the productive. We are at a unique point, where the producers of food could control the narrative if they refuse to cooperate
@@moosings2048 the communist dream. Unfortunately, humans are, by default, lazy, and will inevitably give up power to others. It's how civilization and technology arose in the first place.
I’m 10:49 seconds in AND am amazed at the concepts brought forth decades ago that are coming into FULL fruition- especially the AI part & a system so complex that you would not notice the changes taking place!❤
Yeah because the alternative is better: Go back to Monke or Feudalism. We live in unstable systems all around the world but compared to the past, I'd rather live in the present. Especially because my medicines exist here and I won't even last a decade in the alternative even with my very best. We take the present for granted for idealized B.S.
@@vondantalingtingyou can have advances in medicine without being crushed by technology. It's not like we weren't learning new sciences in the feudal age. Technology just made us learn faster. We are biologically just as intelligent as the ancient romans.
@@vondantalingting I hate to break it to you, but you can have advances in medicine without destroying the ecosystem and creating an unsustainable economy. Your comment is self-centered. You'd rather live comfortably in a death spiral as long as future generations have to pick up the pieces and live with the mess that you created.
@@vondantalingtingI don't know what type of medication you are referring to, but I really believe that if we lived in accordance with nature, then many (not all) medications would be unnecessary. Ted is right that mental illness is caused much more by our society than by biological defects in people. 99% of psychiatric medication would be unnecessary. Many diseases like Type II diabetes wouldn't exist either, because people would not be tempted into the kind of diets that cause it. Also, people who live in accordance with nature would know the local medicinal plants and how to use them. Many of them are scientifically proven to work. Most modern medications are derived from some kind of plant. Even prehistoric people did not live without medication.
TK was systematically tortured for years by Murray. This was intentional and extensive. When TK was small, he got very sick and was put in the hospital. His mum went home, leaving him there. When she came back, he wouldn't make eye contact with her. This betrayal must have affected him because his family said even later in life Ted would often just 'shut down' or withraw and I think it goes back to that early trauma. TK's brother may claim to have admired Ted but I think the reality was that his little brother envied Ted and tried to sabotage him, including getting him fired from a job then later, turning Ted in as the Unabomber, even rightly so, I think he secretly delighted in getting Ted put away for life. Btw, depression isn't a malfunction - it's a natural response to tell you that you have complex social problems that the mind is intent on solving. (Scientific American, 2009).
Despite the controversial legacy of Ted Kaczynski, his books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, offer thought-provoking insights into the perils of modern technology and its impact on society. Highly recommended
I heard he was MK ultra I think by the same Doctor Who did Manson maybe I’m getting that mixed up but I was looking through the comments to see if anybody picked that up I’ll have to look up Murray
@@alexbrestowski4131the mind is not made for the problems you’re facing. you can’t trust your subconscious or your desire for contentedness to lead you toward your goals. you need to identify and address what makes you feel so awful, or so angry, or so empty so often, no matter how unusual the action you need to take is. as long as you don’t think you can solve the worlds problems with bombs, you can trust yourself not to go too far in pursuit of personal progress
I remember watching the show on Netflix and always found it funny that he mentioned stopping at a stop light and you sitting there when you know for a fact that there’s no one else there and you could go
I'll often find TH-camrs who I feel are severely under appreciated, but your channel reaches a whole new level. It's crazy to me that I can find a channel filled with such well researched videos by a very well spoken creator that averages less than 10k views per video. I don't see that you have a Patreon, but I'd love to support you making videos if you ever choose to get one.
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives. Highly recommended #RipTed
You seem to have no idea what times we're living in lately. ...!? As far as the quality of the channel is concerned, I agree with you absolutely..... Quality, facts, diligence, sincerity, education and intelligence paired with good manners were apparently declared obsolete !! At least I personally only find these values almost exclusively in people over the age of 40.... The fact that a quality channel like this one no longer has a chance of being recognized and generating a significant number of viewers is excellent proof for me Claim !
@@patrickmihajlovic4112 I can't say I agree with you. Every single generation has people with admirable values, and people with typically poor values. If anything, I feel young people generally have better values than older people. At least they often want to make a change for the better, while many people become stagnant as they get older, and lose those values they once had. Plus, every generation has been more accepting, progressive, and educated than the last, at least in modern times. Channels like this not receiving the attention they deserve is not a result of a viewer base with poor values. It's just the result of TH-cam's shitty algorithm that makes it very hard for small creators to be discovered. That's it. There's plenty of very educational TH-cam channels that have millions of subscribers, and get 10's of millions of views per video. To clarify, I'm not saying everyone would find the value in a channel like this. And I'm sure many people's aversion to anything educational has something to do with this channel not being as big as it deserves. But there absolutely is a large audience for this kind of content. It's just not easy for them to find it.
@@tuckerbugeater This is a prime example of the mentality of conformity that we've been accustomed to. We cling so hard to an empty excuse of a life that was manufactured to us from birth that we cannot even comprehend a world where we have to live naturally.
@@marcusmiro7481or to be smart enough too see that he’s a Malthusian idiot that took his ideas to their logical end, where innocent lives would have to be sacrificed for his interpretation of a “perfect world.” He’s not special or inspirational, he’s just another lonely loser that placed his own ego and ideology over people who actually had meaning in their lives
He was really a perfect storm in how to alienate and marginalize a person and fill them with disdain. He would have been socially isolated from his peers all through his youth, first by his exceptional intelligence and academic achievement in his own age grade level age group, then by being the odd one who was younger but probably still more intelligent than everyone else after he skipped grades. Arriving at Harvard was probably the first time he was surrounded by intellectual peers but he would still have been the odd kid among young adults and I don't think he was socially or emotionally prepared to deal with that. He can talk about how the mind control experiment had no impact on him, but high intelligence doesn't bestow perfect self-awareness.
I think it has to do with him moving up with the grade level. Because it's a new environment and the people around him, are not at the same level as him. I mean I empathize with him, when you spend your time with people not your age, it can be pretty lonely, because you don't share the same humor with them and there's a gap bet you and the older ones. I think probably the social isolation made him like that. You can be a genius, but if you are not emotionally intelligent, that can sabotage your way up.
Nah, he was just schizophrenic. Same thing as with Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd. David gillmor and company have made millions off songs like “brick in the wall” suggesting he was oppressed by teachers and society and this drove him insane. No, he was just schizophrenic. Being isolated, or picked on makes you awkward and miserable perhaps, but not bat sh*t crazy. For that you need a biological chemical imbalance of some kind.
@@vincet6390 The experiments at uni might have induced psychosis, but the fact that his writing is coherent and his bombs worked, without killing him, brings to question this assumption. I think he was frustrated more than anything and instead of having some punching bag mechanism to vent out, he made bombs.
Difference breeds disdain. If you are smarter, younger, and more accomplished than the peers of your social caste and areas idiom then they will not idolize or look up to you. Instead they will sneer behind your back, distrust your wisdom and youth, and for the better part think your rise was either a cheat or some connection to a person in power beyond you. More over, those who idealize the status quo will insist you not change or advance things in any way other than how it has been done, and how they know it from years of retaining their places in having done whatever it is they do. They will then intentionally hamstring you merely on the premise that yours is not the way it is to be done, nor how it has always been done, and in as much you're an absurdity and outcast for standing out and striving above the norm. Ted was right in one thing also, a system where everyone votes debases your vote to meaning less in changing things than the chances of 10 people you know all suddenly winning the lottery with you. The chances of making a dent in the political corruption, corporate greed, and bias of how things are are higher than trillions to one. Even if you had gotten your entire family, town, and local government behind you it still isn't a big enough change to alter the flow of things. I've lived through such people and situations. It's great to feel accomplished as a child prodigy, but when childhood ends so does the awe of your capability and possibilities of your making anything in a system better. One may as well keep their head low, and pretend to have no advancement beyond the norm, lest they gather the ire and contempt of their society for seeking better.
Ted was a real life Shadow Druid. Also, like many others are saying, it is truly tragic that he was almost 100% correct in his philosophies but his methodology to instigate change will forever tarnish the merit of his ideas.
@@eleven9286 Aw, man. I would be happy to explain Shadow Druids to you. In the game Dungeons and Dragons there is a playable class call "druids" right? They're like nature priests. They preserve the natural order and balance of the world. Druids have cool abilities like being able to turn into/ talk to animals, manipulate plants, and even control the weather in some instances. They usually live in secluded enclaves somewhere of great natural significance, like a grove of ancient trees, or around a natural spring, etc... Whatever the case, they are most interested in preserving the balance of nature. One day they might help a group of human farmers fight off a tribe of orcs raiders only to switch sides when they learn the farmers have been disrupting the orcs' traditional hunting grounds. There is a subsect of Druids call Shadow Druids that take their "preserving the balance of nature" ideology to the extreme. Shadow Druids believe all sentient life is a threat to the balance of nature and needs to be at best, stunted to tribal society, or at worst, eradicated entirely. They despise technology and the trappings of civilized society. They work in the shadows (get it?) to bring the downfall of civilization and are characterized as the wrath of nature, like natural disasters, bloodthirsty predators, etc. That's why I said Ted was like a real life Shadow Druid. His philosophies and ideas line up pretty nicely with theirs.
Most ignorant and widespread thought about Kaczynski. His methodology was 100% correct, but people misperceive the intention. He did not think that killing random techbro Americans is gonna change the socio economical climate of the entire planet, he did his evil bombings and killings as a sacrifice to get long term publicity for his infamous manifesto. I've read it and he addresses this. If you want the truth about Kaczynski's mind, read his own writings, not some entertainment TH-cam video. Note: I think that it's a must that I add that (and more that) while his methodology was "correct" as in successful, that doesn't make it any less abominable or immoral. Some of you Godless so called higher class intellectuals might disagree to this, but human life is sacred. And you can never justify your unjustifiable killings because "others did worse".
He was not 100% correct in his philosophy whatsoever. He was an angry pathetic man who wanted to hurt people and used technology as an excuse to do so. He had no solutions, no continuations, no idea what would happen once we got rid of technology.
What parts of his manifesto do you agree with? Do you truly believe that society is going in a downward spiral? If so, what is your suggested solution to this issue? Standard protesting and climate activist behavior isn't going to do anything. It does sound horrible, but he truly did accomplish more by killing people.
@@chaptap8376 And those that think he is "profound and enlightened" have gone on to do what?... Nothing but complain on the very devises TK hated. He was a waste of brilliant mind nothing more.
I love your content, your channel is my favourite channel on TH-cam! As always, this video is beautifully made and very well researched BUT as a Polish person... I have yet to discover a piece of media where his last name is pronounced correctly 🥲 But that's just a small pet peeve of mine, keep doing what you're doing because you're extremely good at it!
Ted wasn’t lost on the notion that his actions did not bring about any appreciable change in the world. His actions where his method of dealing with his anger and more importantly his method of creating an atmosphere that he had a public voice. I am convinced that he had planned to keep up the bombings until his notoriety gave him at the very least a national platform. Think for a moment what a major publication would have done with his manifesto had he just simply mailed them to news outlets and nothing else. It this he would only be a mad man but how he acted mad him a mad man worthy of publication. And this was achieved. Oddly ( or not ) it was his words that got him caught, the fbi was unable to catch him though his actions and as I believe it was his methodology from the beginning that made this so.
if you are not known for smth then why would ppl read his manifesto, its like saying u are a no one and wanted ppl to read ur thing but in order for ppl to read it u needed to attract attention first as of bcs we would definitely not care to read stuff by a no one
He's trying to say you need to be a well known figure foe people to listen to you, anyone can write a manifesto, but only due to his actions did Ted gain any audience at all
The comment about goals in society reminded me of some of the insights in Jane McGonigal’s Reality is Broken; about Howe modern humans are basically disconnected from direct cause-and-effect in a lot of of their life. But she uses that with games to develop it into something positive instead of wanting to burn the world down.
@@markkramer7068they are family. I don't care what things your family does, at the very least you don't betray them. Yes, move away, yes, disconnect yourself from them. But don't backstab people born of the same blood. Unless you are a betrayer at heart, which is bad.
@secretname2670 so if someone in your family is killing other people you stay silent. That makes you accessory to a crime. Or how do you think those FAMILY'S that lost loved ones feel about this TED K KILLING their love ones. What if it was your family members that were KILLED.
@@secretname2670Your point is idiotic. Every person has the obligation to do the right thing, regardless of who their family is. I don’t typically go around quoting the Bible but I think it applies here: “The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself” (Ezekiel 18:19-23).
Ted was pretty smart especially in school and the creation of untraceable bombs however his selection of targets was blind and stupid. No people are keystones of industrial society because there are endless people in lower positions waiting to replace higher positions. Infrastructure is harder to replace furthermore it costs time and money to do so where as people are promoted or given high jobs for free.
Attacking infrastructure would have definitely had a bigger impact and arguably bigger but attacking the people in charge does disrupt progress no matter how many people can replace them
As a huge Ted fan, it always bugged me that he felt like he had to off people to get his manifesto the attention it deserved. He didn't. His writings are fantastic.
the irony of that last statement…”his 20 years of domestic terrorism had basically no impact on the world.” as if The Unabomber isn’t a household name across the US and you made this beautiful 14 minute video outlining his core ideals. Fantastic video btw.
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives. Highly recommended #RipTed
I remember hearing it was the correct phrasing of " can't eat your cake and have it" as opposed to the commonly misused "can't have your cake and eat it" which caught ted's brother's attention
In retrospective, although his methods were reprehensible, his ideas should be appreciated and studied. Also, understanding his experience with experimentation and psychological manipulation while at Harvard and possibly by the CIA, makes you wonder how he would have turned out if he didn't go through any of that mind-altering stuff.
Ted without that Harvard intimidation experiment probably would have been a fine man serving the society. I tend to think the mindless experiment did permanent damage to Ted's thinking for the rest of his life. This is not to say Harvard is bad, but in this instance they have performed badly.
Freedom isn't just doing whatever we want whenever we want. It's about having the ability to make choices. The more choices we have, the more freedom we enjoy. For example, having a car can be a good thing because it lets us go to work. Working helps us earn money, and having money gives us the power to decide where we live and how we live. It's important for adults not to insist on doing whatever they want whenever they want, because if they do, it might mean they're not as mature as they think. Sometimes, teenagers believe that freedom means doing whatever they want whenever they want.
The only problem is when you work all the time at what should be a good paying job, yet still cant afford a house or car and struggle a lot. Society needs laws, people need to be controlled to a certain extent. People don't like hearing that, but its the truth. Having no laws and total "freedom" would bring the end of all of mankind.
the ability to make enough money to have power over your life has been stolen away from the vast majority of people. your comment was true 40 years ago. a lot has changed.
I think you misunderstood some parts. The problem is not adults behaving like children because they want absolute freedom. The idea of absolute freedom dies the moment you become part of a relationship or in this case a system. This is probably also the reason he went to live alone in the woods as he is most free there. There will always be rules and regulations put in place so that coexsistence becomes better for everyone involved in such a relationship. The problem starts therefore when these "options" as you called them become must haves. You will be dependend on them , thus youre less free than before. If buying a car to drive to work is not an option but a necessity, thats where the problem begins. If owning a car becomes the norm, the only "options" left to pick from, comes from choosing what Model car you want to drive. The system implemented over time a lot more of these necessities, thus reducing your options and thus your freedom further and further, causing you to be dependant on the system. The only freedom you have left within such system is of absolute no significance and an illusion because whatever choices you take, they probably benefit the system and of course, they must be in line with the rules and regulations set by the system, which wouldnt be a problem if the system was working as intended, the purpose beeing , to make coexistance for every person involved easier and better. Ultimately when entering a relationship we tend to give up some of our freedom because what we gain from the sacrifice should be worth more. Herein lies the second problem. Most "systems" have been corrupted so that most regulations and laws benefit maybe 1% or less of the people involved, most of the time at the cost of all other people involved... Maybe you also understood all of this but I just failed to extract it from your comment. Anyways, have a nice day :)
I was with you for the first two sentences. The freedom to be a fentanyl addict is not a real freedom, for example. But then after that you immediately dipped into one of the things Ted was actually right about: everything you say after that is, effectively, a justification for holding up the current system within which we live. I agree with your base instincts, by the way; I agree that *having your desires fulfilled all the time* is not true freedom, and is in fact basically the opposite in a way, but you are clearly doing exactly the thing Ted complained about and was actually right about from any left-of-corporate-dystopia perspective: you are telling people to suck it up and deal with it, when *clearly* from any perspective that isn't hardcore "I love capitalism" nonsense, there is something VERY wrong with the way the world works.
"no impact" the fact that there's still videos coming out about it going over the problems he wrote of and his philosophies is literally the impact of his actions
yeah, but people just watch these videos to procrastinate, not to actually take his ideas to heart. we'll think about his ideas for a few minutes, then just go back to living like everyone else because that's easier
When you realize that you have so much wisdom that it makes you inherently insane due to the fact that at the end, nothing matters cause humanity is so complacent nothing will change.
glad to see kaczynski garnering some more attention. I definitely recommend everyone should read his manifesto, it does well to describe our current plight and helps put the absurdity of the contemporary western lifestyle into perspective.
@HorsesOnYT if you agree then why did you say at the end of your video that he had zero impact on the world? His domestic terrorism is the only reason anyone read his manifesto.. This is not to say I didn't thoroughly enjoy and learn alot from your video; or that I completely agree with how he went about it. The statement seems untrue in my opinion so I'm just wondering why you felt you needed to say that?
I agree that the manifesto describes many problems in our world, and I agree that most people could get something from reading it. That said, Ted’s terrorism basically did nothing significant to change the world. He had a good analysis of problems but his “solutions” accomplished nothing, besides garnering some fame/infamy for Ted himself. Hope that helps! -Michael
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives. Highly recommended
Your channel is very underrated. Content is top notch, and your presentation is impeccable. Hope you can achieve the goals you set your mind to! All the best! ❤
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives. Highly recommended
Yes, I wonder if some God could magically send us back to the world of the hunter-gatherer [without billions of people starving to death] as we are now [though with the necessary skills to survive that world], how long it would take before people would start whining about how much they missed technology and the comforts of 21 Century home.
As a political side note, I think this case illustrates perfectly the ambiguity in between "the left and the right" as a constructed way to confront people, being in one or the other side... But still part of the system. Very interesting
Just a decade ago, the left was anti corporate and the right was pro. Now it has switched sides. Just smoke and mirrors to keep the sheep like populace placated.
Never realized how smart this man was, I agree with some of his views. What I despise is he was betrayed by his brother, nothing in life is lower than family betraying family. Liked the video 👍👍
After his manifesting was published in NYT the brother had no doubt who wrote it and wrestled with his conscience but decided it was right thing to do to tell FBI who wrote it. He would have been caught eventually. His publication is what caused him to be caught not his brother's betrayal.
@@WindTurbineSyndrome You choose to believe his brother, I choose not to. I was raised family first, evidently his brother was not raised that way. To his brother 👎👎👎👎
He was damaged as an infant when he hospitalized. The mother says he came home changed and was never the same. So that damage may have impacted his brain. He was brilliant but he was an outlier. When people live alone without any outside communication they can start to believe their own bs.
Intelligence and having to constantly battle for what you believe in at the age of 16 is very different. I’ve heard LSD was used during these experiments as well. I think he continued the MKUltra thing because at the moment he felt like he can power through it but definitely must’ve had an impact on the way he saw the world and other people.
Mkultra was WAY before his time. The real likelihood is that he was a recreational user in adulthood given some of the people he was associated with. His youth seemed rather unnafected by any noticeable drug use.
i understand why Ted felt like bombings were the only way to get his point across and in that regard he was correct as if he had tried to share his methods in a peaceful way then he would have most likely been ignored and the fact that we cant correct our mistakes is our biggest weakness and although its mostly accepted that humanity will be the cause of our own extinction instead of trying to change that we have just accepted it
Your Arthur video seems to have given you a lot of attention. I’m glad I stumbled on it. All your videos do a good job of questioning things, I never thought to ask.
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives. Highly recommended #RipTed
I just stumbled unto your channel and I really like the production style, narration and subject matter. I will send links to my friends. Keep up the good work.
I highly recommend Wendigoon's video on Ted. His ideology seems more like an excuse for him to pursue revenge for petty squabbles. A lot of his targets didn't really make sense for his espoused goals. He more or less just became obsessed with wanting to kill people and avoid the repercussions. In his journals he grew more and more frustrated that his bombs weren't having the fatal results he was seeking.
Been saying this for 10 years but I idolize this man's manifesto and way of thinking and living. However, I don't necessarily agree with some of the actions she took in his life, I can still appreciate that part of it for what it is because it resonates with my sentiment and beliefs more than almost every other document I've ever come acrossed
He had Master's and Doctoral degrees in Mathematics from the University of Michigan. He had a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Harvard University. He had nothing to do with Economics education.
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives. Highly recommended !.
Myself, I am highly skeptical of economics and economists. It seems to me to be unscientific, too oriented around theories that rely on irrational assumptions to facilitate mathematical treatment of "the economy". It seems like economic predictions are often innaccurate, and economic solutions tend to favour intangible metrics such as GDP over actual human happiness, because you can do maths on numbers like GDP, but not on "human happiness".
i kept your arthur video on my browser without watching it for a bit of time, i go to this video and you went fro. 7.18k to 7.77k well done man you absolutely deserve it
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives. Highly recommended #RipTed
I find it interesting that his ideas on freedom inside the confines of what society and the system deems is tolerable behavior for the good of the system is eerily similar to his math thesis Boundary Functions which refers to functions that stay inside the confines of a given set of parameters (or system!)
Kaczynski figured out how to go viral by using the algorithm to his advantage before either of those terms were even part of the common lexicon. The fact that you made a video about him proves that his methods were effective.
While Ted's philosophies are interesting on their own, what is equally as interesting is what his writings on his philosophies reveal about how he viewed himself and his personal relations with others. Certainly a complex man.
Just a historical note: it was David's wife Linda who convinced him to read the manifesto closely enough to aver that the manifesto really could well, in fact, be written by Ted. David owned the thought probably in part because he didn't want his brother's ire to be directed at her.
@@danielhayes3607bro are you really arguing that a package that emits glitter is the same as a package loaded with an explosive charge meant to mame and kill
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives. Highly recommended #RipTed
Mother nature gave us the ability to create technology, I think it's perfectly natural. Our house is just like a birds nest, if they could make it warmer, safer, they would do it as well.
The sad part is that he wasn’t wrong. All of his observations were correct and he drew conclusions on them that were likewise correct. How he made the leap from that to killing people will never be possible to understand since his death. The AI he describes as being able to run things is a horror that has been explored in sci-fi multiple times over the years. The absolute logic that would drive it from doing everything to support humanity into doing everything it could to exterminate humanity is simple for a machine. It is so simple that he was able to cross the emotional boundaries into that logic.
I guess his thinking was that killing people would be the only things which might stir the pot and ensure that people read his manifesto, and so it was the only thing he could personally do which might bring about revolution. Also there was probably an element of revenge and anger.
@@nolongerjuicyboiz4413 I do think his views shifted to being less "generally pissed off" as he got older. In Anti-Tech Revolution he doesn't really call for bombings or anything, I think he realized that bombing random people at universities wasn't getting him anywhere.
@jackjones4824 To all of that I say: and? So what if we were only able to grow to 1b population? Oh no! We wouldn't be able to exploit and deplete resources at mach 6. We wouldn't be able to pollute the planet as much. What ever would we do. The same for knowledge, especially internet and stuff. All of that came and comes at cost. Especially the web. Compute centers are gobbling up resources like mad. Not even talking about production, but running them. Electricity and water. Lots of them. All for a web that is 90% useless and 99% bloated. Using up more resources than necessary to provide decent websites. And depending on which websites we are talking about, can even be actively detrimental to society.
@jackjones4824 You actually make a good point. His ideals against technology are incorrect. As it is not the fault of the creation but rather the ones who have power over said creation. While there are aspects of nature that are good for humanity, I disagree that Nature is the perfect solution. Nature is inefficient, cruel, gratuitous and capricious. Therefore, most aspects of it are bad for humanity. Ted's philosophy involves regressing back to farm, Which I disagree with. I think we should regress to "Digital wild west". Think about it. While it was an immature and cruel era, it was also an era where creativity reigned supreme over the internet. Consequences weren't nonexistent but were rather balanced because people back then could actually recognize the moral changes in someone rather than being assholes who assume that people don't change. My point is, we should return to the Early 2000s to 2010s of the internet. It may be impossible to do with all the BS "Social Justice" crap but it is the best we can hope for.
The key issue with Kaczynski's angle is that he purported to oppose the perverse sort of authority that an industrial system holds over humanity but failed to recognize it as anything but an extension of the authority nature has over humanity. The sun lays waste to crops and by extension it sets the schedule, it determines the yield, it determines how much is left, and ultimately determines who is allowed to eat. Industry functions in the same way. All involved operate by the limits and needs of the machine. The authority held by a system exists whether or not it revolves around a "natural" element. Destroying the machines does not strike at the core of the issue- that being the character of that authority and how it influences the product of the system and those that participate in it. In fact, you happen to have a really good video on that exact character. Now, some might say that they agree with his views but opposed his methods, but that's always come off as a limp platitude to me. If I believed him to be right I would only be able consider him to correct in pursuing his ultimate goal. However, I do not. I see him as an aimless eco-fascist who believed that the world and its people could not be trusted to change in any meaningful way. His words may resonate with people who are miserable with the inhumane systems that control our lives but I can only see him as narrow-sighted and deeply unimaginative. (After all, despite the limp critiques he has of liberals, the same appeals to the sanctity of nature and the brutality of authority are exactly the kind of directionless tripe you can find within the average left-ish keyboard warrior today. He would probably have had a great time getting into internet fights with them, if he wasnt the type to destroy snowplows lol)
His critique was not about Liberals but Leftists. Leftists are anti-capitalists. Liberals are pro-capitalists. He argued Leftists were psychologically motivated by resentment of those more socially and materially successful. In the end, he too was a socially maladjusted person who wanted attention and resorted to violence to get it.
Living in a complex environment that requires skills to survive is not equal to living in a highly regulated system that places people in unnatural lifestyles wholly incompatible with happiness and self-actualization. Equating the nature of both these environments because they involve "struggle" is a shallow and nonsensical interpretation and has no backing. Freedom is not having 1000hrs to draw your webcomic while having youtube.
"Psychology/Psychiatry measures a person's adaptation to the society in which they find themselves, no inquiry, however, is made as to that society's adaptation to the nature of things."- Dr. Hubert Benoit (Zen and the Psychology of Transformation)
Interestingly enough, in all of the dystopian novels Ive read (We, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, etc.) the antithesis and solution to the tyrannical societies is nature itself.
In a logical line of reasoning it makes sense. Just consider the current political climate with people who would otherwise agree on many things yet want to kill each other because of the lies and propaganda that gets spread on social media. The same applies for all media, and Ted was likely able to see the writing on the wall with the way media was handled in his time and the advent of the internet…
I of course don't know the man, and perhaps he realized this before his death, but Ted seemed to not recognize that that the world and people would always be the same. There will always be people who want power by any means, and people like himself who would take radical action to stop them. He was one of those people more concerned with the problems of the world, rather than problems with himself.
True. The more you fight what you think are the enemies, the more you become the monster. It’s because all of us, not just him, when fighting for a just or our own genuine cause, step over others or our morals without taking a step back to analyse the situation, which in tale will piss us off bc we will be back at square one again lol
@toohak2782 What are you saying? That it's wrong to fight back when you have an entire machine being leveraged against you? Morality is decided by those that wield power, because they're not afraid to wield it. They will kill you and imprison you without remorse, without any internal pushback within the "democratic" system. But if you try and exercise a small fraction of that power and autonomy you will be seen as the devil himself. Isn't that a little too convenient?
@@waffleyumboyr5342 if you’re going to fight, fight with full force and don’t go back. I’m just saying, the more you try and go after something or somebody, you will be no better than the machine itself. Meaning you’ll lose yourself within your own self diluted psyche bc what you thought was a genuine fight, was just your own selfish desires
@@waffleyumboyr5342 well that’s what they want you to think too. If you said anything pro about Hitler you will be condemned by these weak losers who think they hold power when in reality, you and me hold the power. We’re the new kids on the block ready to rage against the machine; no pun intended ;p
“Taking medications to tolerate conditions you naturally find intolerable” that hit me as fact
I'm just here to let you know this guy's condition caused him to kill people. Killing people is not tolerable. Don't think you found some nugget of wisdom from a serial killer because you find taking schizo meds to be inconvenient.
Are you going to start murdering and maiming people?
Don't go to the doctor EVER if you feel like that
EVER
This pathetic failure of a man was just murderous weirdo who hurt innocent people
Big Pharma is a business. Remember that
The fact 40$ of Americans are on medication is insane; I don't even drink coffee, so I don't understand how everyone is so fucked
@@user-dt8cn9gw9wYou forget not everyone suffers from adhd, or whatever you think adhd is
It is truly disturbing how balanced this story is between complete insanity and wisdom. It makes me wonder how slippery the transition into madness is.
Our times will become interesting enough to where many, many more will find out, and once they do, won't care that they are, for they will just be one of the crowd again.
It's even more disturbing than that: the Unabomber has never gone mad. His reasoning has always been valid. The solutions he suggested (and inacted) seem mad, because they were supposed to solve a conundrum he himself analyzed does not allow for a solution. If we view it through the lense of Thomas Sowell ("There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.") it makes perfect sense: trying to trade in an all-encompassing system must necessarily appear gruesome and mad from within that system, for you're a part of that system (albeit not benefitting from it in a meaningful way), hence you're part of what is to be traded in.
Of course his bombings went nowhere and must therefore be considered an act of senseless violence (a.k.a. madness). But I believe that he was pretty much aware of that fact right from the start and the real purpose of the bombings was to grant him sufficient prominence for his manifesto to be published. Such a clear, calculated purpose, I would argue, is the opposite of madness.
And that's what makes it even more disturbing for me than simply ascertaining that he must have gone mad at some point: if, through perfectly valid reasoning, you arrive at a point from where on violence is inevitable, then there must be something deeply wrong with the system.
Ted isn't crazy
Philosophers arnt always labled sane
@@user-wj9qj6yta15 He went about a stupid way of getting his message across though.
This can be summarized as "the unibomber's ideas were based, but his methods were not"
let me guess, you are one of those people who think you can change the world through reforms. 😑
his methods were even more based
I don't exactly think his methods were unjust. If technology was going to literally destroy thousands of human lives, kill its creators. There was no other way. It was for a greater cause, a greater good. Ted Kaczynski would not be known today if he hadn't exercised his methods. Ethics and morals are out of question for the doom of modern humanity.
@@ishredder4006nobody is saying that, nobody really knows the real way to incite the change we want, but clearly his way did not work they way her wanted it to
@@The_Real__Power_ oh but there is a way that has worked before, "the Lenin way" 😅
Kaczynski's two books are both must reads: "Technological Slavery" and "Anti-Tech Revolution". Everyone has heard of his manifesto, but few people realize he wrote and published these two other books from prison that go far beyond the manifesto and contain a ton of research and analysis.
Thanks
Thanks for the suggestion
Thank you😊
Cool, ty for the info.
Do you think he would find it concerning we're on a tech device, with all of its advertisements/propaganda and algorithms, discussing this? Lol.
I have never heard a more enlightening statement than “Taking medications to tolerate conditions you naturally find intolerable”
Our world is under a depression epidemic and the solution that system provides is a pill that makes you accept the unacceptable, work longer and extract more value for.. the system.. who both invented your solution and caused your problem.
He was racist, misogynistic and homophobic.
That is the Soma Society that Brave New World examines.
The system is everything, so when the system gets you down or stressed...take a Soma holiday.
It's Miller Time.
So accepting your premise what is an alternative solution?
There is no sudden depression epidemic, just a renewed celebrity in being in depression or having psychotic breaks with reality.
150 years ago saloons were filled with people trying to drink away the pain of hard work, and leisure set trying to find short escape from promises not fulfilled.
This gen may grow our of it as the hippies of 1969 did by 1985 to where they only remember a nostalgia of wild youth.
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As individuals start to realize they climbed a barren mountain they wither double down to justify it by refusing to accept truth, lash out at those people that refused to buy a ticket to their circus, or stop reflect and come down to start again in a better direction.
@@STho205I see a lot online that the world is heading towards 1984 while I always thought it's becoming more like BNW. The death of the individual and the creation of man-made remedies to ease the bleakness of the world we've come to subconsciously accept.
It's a book I deeply appreciate and am always happy to see brought up. Thank you.
The problem with Ted Kaczinsky is he wasn’t wrong, but he went about it in the worst way.
His views on the political parties are spot on. I can't stand leftism now when I considered myself pretty liberal before 2016. Now I feel I fit into conservatism more so than anything, but he's exactly right about conservatives being fools, too. You can't make drastic changes to society like that and expect societies core values to not change.
@@dennisd.4726 But what is to be done? We all want to avoid a Brave New World, but how?
You don't know anything about what he did and why, brainfried zoomie.
@ST-ly8uf my honest opinion? There's nothing that can be done. You can't put pandoras contents back in the box. Technology is already too advanced. You can't go backwards technologically now. We can only go backwards mentally and spiritually. Which seems to be exactly what we're doing. The only thing left to do is treat your community and your family as good as possible. Help them in any way you can and trust that God will do what should be done. We gotta follow Jesus, bro. That's the only answer in all this. No man made solutions will work.
@@dennisd.4726If you speak of the democrats, they are in no way leftists. And I'm not a leftist either, but I'm saying it like it is.
"What kind of freedom does one have if one can use it only as someone else prescribes?"
Such profound words.
"Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost."
-Ted
What do you think he mean with that quote ?
@@crazypato3752 My first guess would be to maintain the courage to keep on living. Even in the face of impossible odds, one should never give up. In this case, one should fearlessly stand against the world itself, even in the smallest ways.
@@localsnek makes Sense imo
This is the story of your enslavement: The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🙏
Damn this quote tickled my soul
The problem with his philosophy is that very few people will give up the joys of the technology they have to live like him
and tech has helped us live longer.
@@Lucario69MasterSocrates lived until 71
@@dl9618 and they used to eat with lead cutlery. Your point being?
@@AlvinFlang69420 that Socrates lived to 71 without modern science, way to bring up a point that's completely irrelevant to what I said
@@Lucario69Master not necessarily, humans max age has been about the same it's just today's average is skewed due to less infant deaths
So after surviving infant hood were the same we've always been
Its so rare and refreshing to find a TH-camr who covers a broad range of topics, and manages to do it all well, without sacrificing quality or cramming the videos full of annoying advertisements. This channel is like the conversations I wish I could have with friends.
Unfortunately for me, this video hit me with another bloody Hero Wars ad.
EDIT 5 minutes in and it's KenHub.
its just another rehash of kaczynski's wikipedia page with edgy graphics and nothing expounded on
@@royisdabestohmygotttt.... ambasing... ambassing... AMBATUKAMMMMMM.... AMKAMING
no mention of the CIA being behind his psychological torture
@@royisdabestwho’s an edgy boy? 😅😂
“To be too conscious is an illness” literally describes Ted.
To be sane in an insane world is truly unbearable
Chuds
At the sake of sounding arrogant, thats precisely how I feel. I envy the normies around me who can quietly ignore reality and pay attention to the bread and circuses instead.
You are taking away the credit from that funny experiment to which he was subjected in his youth...
@@radeon8461 yes, once you see humanity for what it is there's no unseeing it. And you can't talk to anyone about it because they'll hate you for ruining their illusion - which to be fair is valid. I wish I never went through what I went through and was allowed to keep my naivety
Consider that Ted’s premise that “technology was damaging to the human experience” was before the invention of the cell phone!!
If Ted was alive today, with A.I., social media, smartphones, and the escalation of technology he would not be happy.
@@philjames6206 He died only a few months ago. He lived to see all of those things.
Maybe but he wasn't able to do anything about it (joke).@@godnotavailable2094
The beginning of the Industrial Revolution is usually dated to the 18th Century.
Wow. That is shocking. If only he saw society now with tiktok and iPad kids.
“I mean, technology is useful if it's used intelligently, but if it's used by people who are incompetent, then it’s not really effective.” - Ted, in an interview
This is a statement I agree with. I understand and support his premises. His solution was inept. I’m not sure we have the capacity to develop a solution but his only buried his message.
I think that the technocratic modern society will need to crumble soon so that it can rise again in a better way
@@gottasay4766 its a sad story
@@gottasay4766 I also agree with his concept and see it playing out today but it is too late to fix anything. Greed and corruption in production of technology is god and can not be stopped at this point.
@@gottasay4766overtime I have come to attribute his manifesto and other writings on his own beliefs, and the way he chose to react with them to his time as an MK ultra victim.
When his capture and trial were in the media, I found it really regrettable that his violent tactics overrode his clearly prescient ideas and messages. It was clear to me even as a teenager, and I've continued to feel this way. We are living in an unsustainable condition. We are on a seesaw over a pit of lava.
Reform or revolution? The ruling g class never let's go of power willingly.
The world is fundamentally broken. I think most people who are honest with themselves know this. There is nothing that can or will save us. Human nature is not sustainable.
But look on the bright side: we got the opportunity to be alive and experience the world before our species completely fucked it all up.
And there's no need to be stressed about anything because there isn't a damn thing we can do about it.
Just hold out as long as you can against the ongoing gradual apocalypse and try to enjoy the ride.
He's right but destroying advancements isn't the cure, it's human spaying. We need less useless mouthbreathers so start poisoning the mountain dew, give sex education and condoms to the shithole countries, free the women in those same places and fuck religion off.
@@user-dt8cn9gw9w Honestly, I'm getting a little tired of the recent backlash against "doomer" sentiments.
If being mentally healthy means practicing self-delusion, then I'm not interested. Living in accordance with truth is far more important to me than being blissfully ignorant.
Optimism is just a lie if there's no reasonable basis for it. I'd love for human society to evolve into something less pathological, but that doesn't appear to be possible.
I think the best a person can do in these circumstances is face the grim truth and try to make the best of it. There's nothing defeatist about that.
@@ahobimo732There’s a supernatural realm and we go somewhere when we die. We’ve been lied to about our past and the civilizations that were. They were wayyy more smarter than us, they knew how to make equipment out of the earth unlike we do now where we have to have everything manufactured. We all have metaphysical abilities and you should research them, they don’t want us to know it and that’s why they dumb our spiritual antennas down also which is our pineal gland. we can heal ourselves naturally through a lot of meditation and concentration
I tried a few different remedies to help me tolerate the World better. The last 4 years have exacerbated my disgust even more with, well, even more crap i cannot tolerate. Thankfully i am elder now, soon on my way GONE. I look forward to this. They have fubared everything and i am livid about this. Stress apparently doesn't kill. I'd have been gone years ago. Good luck to all of you......
What do you think about the singularity and AI merging with human beings to remove all the stupidity in the world?
No more freedom that is.
Ted was a MKULTRA victim. They targeted him to silence him. He wasn’t mentally ill until the trauma events at Harvard
Right, always just skim over that.
This is the story of your enslavement: The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🙏
He was always unstable.
MKULTRA just made him worse.
He was already a man rejected by this world that he desperately wanted to be a part of.
MKUltra just solidified his belief that he would never be a part of this world.
A child not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel it's warmth. Unfortunately for all involved, ted was an exceptional arsonist.
@@number3766 Have you ever watch anime like Monster or Death Note? Johan manipulate other to kill themselves was because he believe his mother hates him and he is a rejected by the world and believe that nihilism is the only way for him. And Kira he is bright child but he hates the world because of criminal. Notice how this guy have almost the same background as these two?
@@wojakthecrusader1410Johan's plot armor made Monster so enraging to watch. All throughout the anime I screamed at characters to just SHOOT HIM FFS but they never did. The author kept hyping him up like he was an epic mastermind but he didn't live up to it at all. Did nothing impressive onscreen, just smiling with a shit-eating grin and a mile-thick plot armor. Most frustrating anime I've ever watched, and I like Seinen otherwise.
Ted didn't die from suicide, he died from cancer, there was a subreddit that sent him letters and sometimes he would write people personalised notes.
what was the subreddit name
@@shadenfraud3212r/tedkaczysnki
@@shadenfraud3212 r/okbuddybaka
He died from suicide
@@Nomaswearefull no he didnt, read my comment. he sent letters, he died of cancer.
Being skipped ahead twice in school and attending college at sixteen probably shunted his ability to interact socially. I think this gets glossed over in order to talk about the experiments he participated in at Harvard. School isn’t just about book learning, we also develop the ability to socialize
Exactly that's social part is the reason why my mom refused to jump me a grade both times they asked she didn't want to stunt my socially in exchange for learning saying I could get both of my teachers did their jobs
Yeah there is a lot of truth to that. I started college at a normal age but I have autism and was bullied so I really didn't learn many social skills. College took a LONG time for me to finish and I believe that was a very significant factor. (Though not the only factor)
he was probably autistic as well.
How dod we learn to socialize before public school?
We've been a social creature since the beginning of our time on earth, while formal schooling is a very new concept.
@SuperballsSupervidsOnYT In prehistoric times people were basically around each other all the time. They were almost never alone, and children especially were never alone.
Kaczynski wasn't wrong in his analysis; he was wrong in his solution.
No
Glad to see this video. I read his manifesto years ago and was astonished to find myself agreeing with many of the points you’ve also pointed out. And as predictions come to pass I think back to it then too.
Civilations always collapse and restart. It’s inevitable at the rate we are going. Either we reboot or go extinct anyways.
Now I’m not advocating for someone to reboot all at once but there are ways back to nature and abandoning the destruction industrialization as we know it has brought and continues to wrought.
Look at solar punk ideas next. I’d love to see it covered. There’s a great TH-camr you could do a collab with - Andrewism is the channel
dude solarpunk is cool and all but to do that you have to destroy everything you know that right? he says even if the system is reformed the world will go through a harsh period of destruction before stabilizing. and even then, our freedoms wont be returned to us
I met the guy. It was at the 1990 Earth First! gathering in Montana. There was a board that people running workshops could put the name and time of their workshop on. It was not vetted. Ted put one up called "political assassination." The local media picked it up. A lot of folks there were angry at him and wanted him to leave. I actually stuck up for him. He just seemed lie a sad old guy.
Damn, what a bold move- he was that sure they couldn't catch him.
Legendary mad lad
@@froggy2247I met your father right before he divorced your mom. What gives?
Uncle Ted was right though.
Yeah, I was there too.😉 You totally stuck up for him and stuff.
They call him crazy. They never call him wrong…
well he was wrong to bomb people
Fine, he was wrong
@@iexist2786😂
A lot of his ideas aren’t even original, some of it is based on existential philosophical ideas. He wasn’t as intelligent as it seemed
Ted’s philosophy is probably the most sober and accurate outlook on modern life ever. His methods were drastic though, and futile at that. We can’t really do nothing to stop this behemoth. One day it’ll all collapse
Unbelievably intelligent man that clearly let his frustrations get to him, ironically making his ideas sound crazy to the average normie, this having much less of an impact on the whole of society.
Tbh he would have been made out to be crazy if he didn't do the bombings, only difference he wouldn't have even got heard
I would argue he has more influence now and potentially in the future than he would have as a random writer in the woods.
He identified as a woman, though. Don't misgender him.
Real tragedy.
Big issue with video: Ted WAS NOT A PREAGRICULTURALIST. He’s not saying we should return to monke, he’s saying we should return to farm.
This is not to be a POLITICAL revo- lution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society. -
Societies can not be changed consciously or purposefully - he was not necessarily saying that we should “return” to “monke” or farming, but rather that we should destroy the technological system we have today. The shape society takes is mostly up to itself and uncontrollable, but the existence of technological society is able to and should be snuffed out. That is the goal.
If we would be “returning” to anything, it would be a pre technological society, where perhaps we farm or perhaps we hunt and gather or perhaps we do anything that isn’t exist with large society-scale technologies
It seems like he was always talking about hunter gatherer societies as his ideal, wdym?
@@beatleswithaz6246 read the actual text. He’s critical of people who idealize the hellish lives of hunter gatherers.
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives.
Highly recommended
#RipTed
Hellish lives? You're brainwashed.
While I empathize quite a bit with what Ted described as our systemic problems, I still find myself questioning his particular fantasies of solution in returning to primitive man in nature. To me, they are deeply romanticized and just as misguided. Ted frequently disregarded and omitted many of the problems among primitive man ranging from rampant competitive infanticide to rape.
What do you mean "problems".
All of the problems you describe are 1. Hypothetical as noone knows what early man did or didn't do and 2. IF present would be a condition of a less evolved version of the species. If mankind now was faced with anarchy and primal life the violent would exist, but would die off very quickly in favor of those who voluntarily cooperate and live in harmony with the land and each other.
@@moosings2048 Kinda hard to believe that when the violent have been the ones to conquer and rule all throughout human history as opposed to dying off very quickly, but ok. There is also nothing hypothetical about what I described.
@@JustSomeDinosaurPerson The violent cannot survive without the productive. We are at a unique point, where the producers of food could control the narrative if they refuse to cooperate
@@moosings2048 the communist dream. Unfortunately, humans are, by default, lazy, and will inevitably give up power to others. It's how civilization and technology arose in the first place.
Needed today!
I’m 10:49 seconds in AND am amazed at the concepts brought forth decades ago that are coming into FULL fruition- especially the AI part & a system so complex that you would not notice the changes taking place!❤
Dude was basically 100% correct. He saw where we were headed as a society.
Yeah because the alternative is better: Go back to Monke or Feudalism.
We live in unstable systems all around the world but compared to the past, I'd rather live in the present. Especially because my medicines exist here and I won't even last a decade in the alternative even with my very best.
We take the present for granted for idealized B.S.
@@vondantalingtingyou can have advances in medicine without being crushed by technology. It's not like we weren't learning new sciences in the feudal age. Technology just made us learn faster. We are biologically just as intelligent as the ancient romans.
@@vondantalingting I hate to break it to you, but you can have advances in medicine without destroying the ecosystem and creating an unsustainable economy. Your comment is self-centered. You'd rather live comfortably in a death spiral as long as future generations have to pick up the pieces and live with the mess that you created.
@@vondantalingtingI don't know what type of medication you are referring to, but I really believe that if we lived in accordance with nature, then many (not all) medications would be unnecessary.
Ted is right that mental illness is caused much more by our society than by biological defects in people. 99% of psychiatric medication would be unnecessary. Many diseases like Type II diabetes wouldn't exist either, because people would not be tempted into the kind of diets that cause it.
Also, people who live in accordance with nature would know the local medicinal plants and how to use them. Many of them are scientifically proven to work. Most modern medications are derived from some kind of plant. Even prehistoric people did not live without medication.
@@vondantalingting wait until you realize that science, technology and basic infrastructure exists before the industrial revolution 😱😱😱😱😱
TK was systematically tortured for years by Murray. This was intentional and extensive. When TK was small, he got very sick and was put in the hospital. His mum went home, leaving him there. When she came back, he wouldn't make eye contact with her. This betrayal must have affected him because his family said even later in life Ted would often just 'shut down' or withraw and I think it goes back to that early trauma. TK's brother may claim to have admired Ted but I think the reality was that his little brother envied Ted and tried to sabotage him, including getting him fired from a job then later, turning Ted in as the Unabomber, even rightly so, I think he secretly delighted in getting Ted put away for life. Btw, depression isn't a malfunction - it's a natural response to tell you that you have complex social problems that the mind is intent on solving. (Scientific American, 2009).
Despite the controversial legacy of Ted Kaczynski, his books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, offer thought-provoking insights into the perils of modern technology and its impact on society.
Highly recommended
My mind isn’t doing Jack shit to solve depression lmao so much for being intent on solving it
I heard he was MK ultra I think by the same Doctor Who did Manson maybe I’m getting that mixed up but I was looking through the comments to see if anybody picked that up I’ll have to look up Murray
Almost no mental disorder is an actual malfunction. Its more often a sign your system is working and responding properly.
@@alexbrestowski4131the mind is not made for the problems you’re facing. you can’t trust your subconscious or your desire for contentedness to lead you toward your goals. you need to identify and address what makes you feel so awful, or so angry, or so empty so often, no matter how unusual the action you need to take is. as long as you don’t think you can solve the worlds problems with bombs, you can trust yourself not to go too far in pursuit of personal progress
This video inspired me to go for a two hour walk [mostly through nature] and I loved it :3
I’m 14 and I’m deep…
I remember watching the show on Netflix and always found it funny that he mentioned stopping at a stop light and you sitting there when you know for a fact that there’s no one else there and you could go
I'll often find TH-camrs who I feel are severely under appreciated, but your channel reaches a whole new level. It's crazy to me that I can find a channel filled with such well researched videos by a very well spoken creator that averages less than 10k views per video. I don't see that you have a Patreon, but I'd love to support you making videos if you ever choose to get one.
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives.
Highly recommended
#RipTed
You seem to have no idea what times we're living in lately. ...!?
As far as the quality of the channel is concerned, I agree with you absolutely.....
Quality, facts, diligence, sincerity, education and intelligence paired with good manners were apparently declared obsolete !!
At least I personally only find these values almost exclusively in people over the age of 40....
The fact that a quality channel like this one no longer has a chance of being recognized and generating a significant number of viewers is excellent proof for me Claim !
@@patrickmihajlovic4112 I can't say I agree with you. Every single generation has people with admirable values, and people with typically poor values. If anything, I feel young people generally have better values than older people. At least they often want to make a change for the better, while many people become stagnant as they get older, and lose those values they once had. Plus, every generation has been more accepting, progressive, and educated than the last, at least in modern times.
Channels like this not receiving the attention they deserve is not a result of a viewer base with poor values. It's just the result of TH-cam's shitty algorithm that makes it very hard for small creators to be discovered. That's it. There's plenty of very educational TH-cam channels that have millions of subscribers, and get 10's of millions of views per video.
To clarify, I'm not saying everyone would find the value in a channel like this. And I'm sure many people's aversion to anything educational has something to do with this channel not being as big as it deserves. But there absolutely is a large audience for this kind of content. It's just not easy for them to find it.
And now 4 weeks later he blew up. TH-cam algorithm took notice.
"We've created a world that humans aren't evolved to live in" honestly I couldn't agree more.
Wait for Kessler's Syndrome to happen.
Would you rather live in a world of survival of the fittest
@@tuckerbugeaterAh yes, the only two options, obviously
Humans arent made to be made and kept as slaves?
@@tuckerbugeater This is a prime example of the mentality of conformity that we've been accustomed to. We cling so hard to an empty excuse of a life that was manufactured to us from birth that we cannot even comprehend a world where we have to live naturally.
i especially loved the part were you listed examples of which of his predictions actually came true
maybe read the book
You have to be fairly right wing, whether of the liberal flavor or the conservative flavor, to not realize he was right about quite a few things lol.
@@marcusmiro7481or to be smart enough too see that he’s a Malthusian idiot that took his ideas to their logical end, where innocent lives would have to be sacrificed for his interpretation of a “perfect world.” He’s not special or inspirational, he’s just another lonely loser that placed his own ego and ideology over people who actually had meaning in their lives
This is the story of your enslavement👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🙏
Great! I'm glad you're sharing this, ThankYou
He was really a perfect storm in how to alienate and marginalize a person and fill them with disdain. He would have been socially isolated from his peers all through his youth, first by his exceptional intelligence and academic achievement in his own age grade level age group, then by being the odd one who was younger but probably still more intelligent than everyone else after he skipped grades. Arriving at Harvard was probably the first time he was surrounded by intellectual peers but he would still have been the odd kid among young adults and I don't think he was socially or emotionally prepared to deal with that. He can talk about how the mind control experiment had no impact on him, but high intelligence doesn't bestow perfect self-awareness.
I think it has to do with him moving up with the grade level. Because it's a new environment and the people around him, are not at the same level as him. I mean I empathize with him, when you spend your time with people not your age, it can be pretty lonely, because you don't share the same humor with them and there's a gap bet you and the older ones. I think probably the social isolation made him like that. You can be a genius, but if you are not emotionally intelligent, that can sabotage your way up.
Nah, he was just schizophrenic. Same thing as with Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd. David gillmor and company have made millions off songs like “brick in the wall” suggesting he was oppressed by teachers and society and this drove him insane. No, he was just schizophrenic. Being isolated, or picked on makes you awkward and miserable perhaps, but not bat sh*t crazy. For that you need a biological chemical imbalance of some kind.
@@vincet6390 The experiments at uni might have induced psychosis, but the fact that his writing is coherent and his bombs worked, without killing him, brings to question this assumption. I think he was frustrated more than anything and instead of having some punching bag mechanism to vent out, he made bombs.
Difference breeds disdain.
If you are smarter, younger, and more accomplished than the peers of your social caste and areas idiom then they will not idolize or look up to you. Instead they will sneer behind your back, distrust your wisdom and youth, and for the better part think your rise was either a cheat or some connection to a person in power beyond you. More over, those who idealize the status quo will insist you not change or advance things in any way other than how it has been done, and how they know it from years of retaining their places in having done whatever it is they do. They will then intentionally hamstring you merely on the premise that yours is not the way it is to be done, nor how it has always been done, and in as much you're an absurdity and outcast for standing out and striving above the norm. Ted was right in one thing also, a system where everyone votes debases your vote to meaning less in changing things than the chances of 10 people you know all suddenly winning the lottery with you. The chances of making a dent in the political corruption, corporate greed, and bias of how things are are higher than trillions to one. Even if you had gotten your entire family, town, and local government behind you it still isn't a big enough change to alter the flow of things.
I've lived through such people and situations. It's great to feel accomplished as a child prodigy, but when childhood ends so does the awe of your capability and possibilities of your making anything in a system better. One may as well keep their head low, and pretend to have no advancement beyond the norm, lest they gather the ire and contempt of their society for seeking better.
This is the story of your enslavement: The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🙏
Ted was a real life Shadow Druid.
Also, like many others are saying, it is truly tragic that he was almost 100% correct in his philosophies but his methodology to instigate change will forever tarnish the merit of his ideas.
It does NOT in ANY way tarnish his ACCURATE assesment of society. Killing is wrong, his philosophy is correct.
Yeah. Just casually say shit like "shadow druid" and not elaborate at all.
@@eleven9286 Aw, man. I would be happy to explain Shadow Druids to you. In the game Dungeons and Dragons there is a playable class call "druids" right? They're like nature priests. They preserve the natural order and balance of the world. Druids have cool abilities like being able to turn into/ talk to animals, manipulate plants, and even control the weather in some instances. They usually live in secluded enclaves somewhere of great natural significance, like a grove of ancient trees, or around a natural spring, etc... Whatever the case, they are most interested in preserving the balance of nature. One day they might help a group of human farmers fight off a tribe of orcs raiders only to switch sides when they learn the farmers have been disrupting the orcs' traditional hunting grounds.
There is a subsect of Druids call Shadow Druids that take their "preserving the balance of nature" ideology to the extreme. Shadow Druids believe all sentient life is a threat to the balance of nature and needs to be at best, stunted to tribal society, or at worst, eradicated entirely. They despise technology and the trappings of civilized society. They work in the shadows (get it?) to bring the downfall of civilization and are characterized as the wrath of nature, like natural disasters, bloodthirsty predators, etc.
That's why I said Ted was like a real life Shadow Druid. His philosophies and ideas line up pretty nicely with theirs.
Most ignorant and widespread thought about Kaczynski. His methodology was 100% correct, but people misperceive the intention. He did not think that killing random techbro Americans is gonna change the socio economical climate of the entire planet, he did his evil bombings and killings as a sacrifice to get long term publicity for his infamous manifesto. I've read it and he addresses this. If you want the truth about Kaczynski's mind, read his own writings, not some entertainment TH-cam video.
Note: I think that it's a must that I add that (and more that) while his methodology was "correct" as in successful, that doesn't make it any less abominable or immoral. Some of you Godless so called higher class intellectuals might disagree to this, but human life is sacred. And you can never justify your unjustifiable killings because "others did worse".
He was not 100% correct in his philosophy whatsoever. He was an angry pathetic man who wanted to hurt people and used technology as an excuse to do so. He had no solutions, no continuations, no idea what would happen once we got rid of technology.
How upsetting that someone could be so right in all their views and act them out in the worst ways possible :/
What parts of his manifesto do you agree with? Do you truly believe that society is going in a downward spiral? If so, what is your suggested solution to this issue? Standard protesting and climate activist behavior isn't going to do anything. It does sound horrible, but he truly did accomplish more by killing people.
@@supernovaexpress5241 sure! he accomplished many things. like making people think that his views were crazy and unachievable.
@@arizonagreenbee Yeah and he also made other people think his views were profound and enlightened. Your point?
@@supernovaexpress5241 He accomplished absolutely nothing... and still killed people.
@@chaptap8376 And those that think he is "profound and enlightened" have gone on to do what?... Nothing but complain on the very devises TK hated. He was a waste of brilliant mind nothing more.
I love your content, your channel is my favourite channel on TH-cam! As always, this video is beautifully made and very well researched BUT as a Polish person... I have yet to discover a piece of media where his last name is pronounced correctly 🥲
But that's just a small pet peeve of mine, keep doing what you're doing because you're extremely good at it!
Ted was on point. We aren't free. We have the illusion of freedom.
Well yea to have a society like we do to be comfortable like we are there has to be “some” control. I’m cool with that
@@kennypowers1945 some. Yes. Law and order with justice for all. But it's not been so.
But that illusion is slowly crumbling from the red pill. Society is based on a social contract and when that social contract is broken we have war
Yeah i like being able to live through a broken femur tho
i’ll take it over dying from an infected wound or the flu at the age of 30
Ted wasn’t lost on the notion that his actions did not bring about any appreciable change in the world. His actions where his method of dealing with his anger and more importantly his method of creating an atmosphere that he had a public voice. I am convinced that he had planned to keep up the bombings until his notoriety gave him at the very least a national platform. Think for a moment what a major publication would have done with his manifesto had he just simply mailed them to news outlets and nothing else. It this he would only be a mad man but how he acted mad him a mad man worthy of publication. And this was achieved. Oddly ( or not ) it was his words that got him caught, the fbi was unable to catch him though his actions and as I believe it was his methodology from the beginning that made this so.
if you are not known for smth then why would ppl read his manifesto, its like saying u are a no one and wanted ppl to read ur thing but in order for ppl to read it u needed to attract attention first as of bcs we would definitely not care to read stuff by a no one
Wtf did you just say!?! Try one more time? You’ll get there bud
@@TheGreyGhost_of43rd i get what u mean man
In the end, all that he did was a surrogate activity in itself.
He's trying to say you need to be a well known figure foe people to listen to you, anyone can write a manifesto, but only due to his actions did Ted gain any audience at all
It’s fascinatingly true that the bigger our system gets the more devastating it’s inevitable collapse will be.
The comment about goals in society reminded me of some of the insights in Jane McGonigal’s Reality is Broken; about Howe modern humans are basically disconnected from direct cause-and-effect in a lot of of their life. But she uses that with games to develop it into something positive instead of wanting to burn the world down.
i want a spin off where his brother doesnt rat him out
His brother didn't Rat him out he stopped Ted's insanity.
@@markkramer7068tomayto tomahto
@@markkramer7068they are family. I don't care what things your family does, at the very least you don't betray them. Yes, move away, yes, disconnect yourself from them. But don't backstab people born of the same blood. Unless you are a betrayer at heart, which is bad.
@secretname2670 so if someone in your family is killing other people you stay silent. That makes you accessory to a crime. Or how do you think those FAMILY'S that lost loved ones feel about this TED K KILLING their love ones. What if it was your family members that were KILLED.
@@secretname2670Your point is idiotic. Every person has the obligation to do the right thing, regardless of who their family is.
I don’t typically go around quoting the Bible but I think it applies here:
“The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself” (Ezekiel 18:19-23).
Ted was pretty smart especially in school and the creation of untraceable bombs however his selection of targets was blind and stupid. No people are keystones of industrial society because there are endless people in lower positions waiting to replace higher positions. Infrastructure is harder to replace furthermore it costs time and money to do so where as people are promoted or given high jobs for free.
power stations would of been better targets
Attacking infrastructure would have definitely had a bigger impact and arguably bigger but attacking the people in charge does disrupt progress no matter how many people can replace them
So what would your solution be?
@@sir.benzerlot4571i mean yes it stop the progress for a while, but not that much
@BishopGG they are well guarded.
As a huge Ted fan, it always bugged me that he felt like he had to off people to get his manifesto the attention it deserved. He didn't. His writings are fantastic.
specially his journals fr!
his point of view is everything I've been thinking about lately. I need to learn more about this person. holy shit
please dont bomb my mail
the irony of that last statement…”his 20 years of domestic terrorism had basically no impact on the world.” as if The Unabomber isn’t a household name across the US and you made this beautiful 14 minute video outlining his core ideals. Fantastic video btw.
Exactly, 1.2 million views. No effect in the world my ass
@@Bigbubbabouttabustit didn’t change the world tho
It didn’t change the world tho
@@kennypowers1945 “change the world” doesn’t have to be systematic. It could be as simple as sending a message/warning to warn people.
@@kennypowers1945changing the world doesn’t happen all at once. It happens bit by bit.
If he’d just quietly lived his philosophy he’d still be out there enjoying nature and a simple life.
I’m consider myself more of a Kazinsky than a Bundy. Than you for coming to my Ted talk 👍
Bundy didn't do jack shit for us, he was just an asshole
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
And the more it will hate those that send 30+ mail bombs to people.
While liars will be celebrated as heros and saviours that will make America great again .
@@STho205Governments do worst and still you are okay with it, but worst contribute to it with TAXES.
@@Tim1Fla0 well don't pay your taxes. Protest... you'll go to jail but so did Ghandi
Wow, this video was the way i found out that he died, and only a few weeks ago too. Thanks for the content, looking forward to more as always
your comment was how I found out
@@Prauwlet213Same, holy shit
Wow I had no idea he had died!
I didn't even know he was sick!
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives.
Highly recommended
#RipTed
I had to REQUEST his manifest.
I found some parallels with Thoreau and the railroad.
Ted made many valid points.
How did you even get this footage? Where is all this from? Thats whats interests me.
I remember hearing it was the correct phrasing of " can't eat your cake and have it" as opposed to the commonly misused "can't have your cake and eat it" which caught ted's brother's attention
Thank you! I was wondering how the brother recognized his writing style just by hearing a bunch of generalized, common ideas. That makes sense now.
In retrospective, although his methods were reprehensible, his ideas should be appreciated and studied. Also, understanding his experience with experimentation and psychological manipulation while at Harvard and possibly by the CIA, makes you wonder how he would have turned out if he didn't go through any of that mind-altering stuff.
Ted without that Harvard intimidation experiment probably would have been a fine man serving the society. I tend to think the mindless experiment did permanent damage to Ted's thinking for the rest of his life. This is not to say Harvard is bad, but in this instance they have performed badly.
He was racist, misogynistic and homophobic.
He'd have been a rug salesman.
@@simonsabir7090 he said himself that it didnt change anything in his psyche
That is what should be discussed, not the "return to monke" shit
Freedom isn't just doing whatever we want whenever we want. It's about having the ability to make choices. The more choices we have, the more freedom we enjoy. For example, having a car can be a good thing because it lets us go to work. Working helps us earn money, and having money gives us the power to decide where we live and how we live. It's important for adults not to insist on doing whatever they want whenever they want, because if they do, it might mean they're not as mature as they think. Sometimes, teenagers believe that freedom means doing whatever they want whenever they want.
The only problem is when you work all the time at what should be a good paying job, yet still cant afford a house or car and struggle a lot. Society needs laws, people need to be controlled to a certain extent. People don't like hearing that, but its the truth. Having no laws and total "freedom" would bring the end of all of mankind.
the ability to make enough money to have power over your life has been stolen away from the vast majority of people.
your comment was true 40 years ago. a lot has changed.
I think you misunderstood some parts. The problem is not adults behaving like children because they want absolute freedom. The idea of absolute freedom dies the moment you become part of a relationship or in this case a system. This is probably also the reason he went to live alone in the woods as he is most free there. There will always be rules and regulations put in place so that coexsistence becomes better for everyone involved in such a relationship. The problem starts therefore when these "options" as you called them become must haves. You will be dependend on them , thus youre less free than before. If buying a car to drive to work is not an option but a necessity, thats where the problem begins. If owning a car becomes the norm, the only "options" left to pick from, comes from choosing what Model car you want to drive. The system implemented over time a lot more of these necessities, thus reducing your options and thus your freedom further and further, causing you to be dependant on the system. The only freedom you have left within such system is of absolute no significance and an illusion because whatever choices you take, they probably benefit the system and of course, they must be in line with the rules and regulations set by the system, which wouldnt be a problem if the system was working as intended, the purpose beeing , to make coexistance for every person involved easier and better. Ultimately when entering a relationship we tend to give up some of our freedom because what we gain from the sacrifice should be worth more. Herein lies the second problem. Most "systems" have been corrupted so that most regulations and laws benefit maybe 1% or less of the people involved, most of the time at the cost of all other people involved... Maybe you also understood all of this but I just failed to extract it from your comment. Anyways, have a nice day :)
I was with you for the first two sentences. The freedom to be a fentanyl addict is not a real freedom, for example. But then after that you immediately dipped into one of the things Ted was actually right about: everything you say after that is, effectively, a justification for holding up the current system within which we live. I agree with your base instincts, by the way; I agree that *having your desires fulfilled all the time* is not true freedom, and is in fact basically the opposite in a way, but you are clearly doing exactly the thing Ted complained about and was actually right about from any left-of-corporate-dystopia perspective: you are telling people to suck it up and deal with it, when *clearly* from any perspective that isn't hardcore "I love capitalism" nonsense, there is something VERY wrong with the way the world works.
@@marcusmiro7481where did I said to suck it up?
what font is that? the pixelated and the serif one
"no impact" the fact that there's still videos coming out about it going over the problems he wrote of and his philosophies is literally the impact of his actions
Minimal impact would be more accurate
yeah, but people just watch these videos to procrastinate, not to actually take his ideas to heart. we'll think about his ideas for a few minutes, then just go back to living like everyone else because that's easier
yep@@cvspvr
what would u say one that took his ideas to heart would do@@cvspvr
"no impact on the world" and yet here we are discussing one of the only well known critiques on modern technological systemic society
He predicted Hypernormalization before anyone else. The system is so messed up yet so complex nobody can manage it or imagine an alternative.
When you realize that you have so much wisdom that it makes you inherently insane due to the fact that at the end, nothing matters cause humanity is so complacent nothing will change.
"Crowding leads to extreme stress and aggression" wrote the reclusive bomb mailer in his remote cabin.
Well, he wasn't born in a log cabin.
@@thomasfisher4833 the great outdoor lifestyle didn't do him much good either.
glad to see kaczynski garnering some more attention. I definitely recommend everyone should read his manifesto, it does well to describe our current plight and helps put the absurdity of the contemporary western lifestyle into perspective.
Agreed!
@HorsesOnYT if you agree then why did you say at the end of your video that he had zero impact on the world? His domestic terrorism is the only reason anyone read his manifesto..
This is not to say I didn't thoroughly enjoy and learn alot from your video; or that I completely agree with how he went about it.
The statement seems untrue in my opinion so I'm just wondering why you felt you needed to say that?
I agree that the manifesto describes many problems in our world, and I agree that most people could get something from reading it.
That said, Ted’s terrorism basically did nothing significant to change the world.
He had a good analysis of problems but his “solutions” accomplished nothing, besides garnering some fame/infamy for Ted himself.
Hope that helps!
-Michael
@@HorsesOnYTYou are addressing the point while ignoring it simultaneously. 😂😂😂
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives.
Highly recommended
Wow. Amazing. Jeez. What a good job of telling a complicated story. Thank you.
Your channel is very underrated. Content is top notch, and your presentation is impeccable.
Hope you can achieve the goals you set your mind to! All the best! ❤
Me, sitting in my room with the AC blasting as I eat pizza and drink Mountain Dew while playing my PlayStation 5:
“Yeah this mf right”
💀
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives.
Highly recommended
Yes, I wonder if some God could magically send us back to the world of the hunter-gatherer [without billions of people starving to death] as we are now [though with the necessary skills to survive that world], how long it would take before people would start whining about how much they missed technology and the comforts of 21 Century home.
As a political side note, I think this case illustrates perfectly the ambiguity in between "the left and the right" as a constructed way to confront people, being in one or the other side... But still part of the system. Very interesting
Just a decade ago, the left was anti corporate and the right was pro. Now it has switched sides. Just smoke and mirrors to keep the sheep like populace placated.
He was racist, misogynistic and homophobic.
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His problems with "leftism " are pretty surface level misconceptions.
@@ryancarroll2886 How so?
Never realized how smart this man was, I agree with some of his views.
What I despise is he was betrayed by his brother, nothing in life is lower than family betraying family.
Liked the video 👍👍
After his manifesting was published in NYT the brother had no doubt who wrote it and wrestled with his conscience but decided it was right thing to do to tell FBI who wrote it. He would have been caught eventually. His publication is what caused him to be caught not his brother's betrayal.
@@WindTurbineSyndrome You choose to believe his brother, I choose not to. I was raised family first, evidently his brother was not raised that way. To his brother 👎👎👎👎
Bro he is a murderer@@haroldmartin4547
@@haroldmartin4547 So you'd be helping John Wayne Gacy with the bodies and sending boys his way?
Dawg, he graduated from Harvard with a degree in MATHEMATICS.
He was damaged as an infant when he hospitalized. The mother says he came home changed and was never the same. So that damage may have impacted his brain. He was brilliant but he was an outlier. When people live alone without any outside communication they can start to believe their own bs.
@@WindTurbineSyndromereality is not superhero comics, you don't get increased IQ by brain damage
Intelligence and having to constantly battle for what you believe in at the age of 16 is very different. I’ve heard LSD was used during these experiments as well. I think he continued the MKUltra thing because at the moment he felt like he can power through it but definitely must’ve had an impact on the way he saw the world and other people.
Given what happened to him after that, yeah more likely.
Mkultra was WAY before his time.
The real likelihood is that he was a recreational user in adulthood given some of the people he was associated with. His youth seemed rather unnafected by any noticeable drug use.
@@jeffbrownstainThis was an official MK Ultra program.
@@jeffbrownstainmkultra wasn’t concluded until like 30 years after it began
@300zxss the same thing is going on now under different names and worse
i understand why Ted felt like bombings were the only way to get his point across and in that regard he was correct as if he had tried to share his methods in a peaceful way then he would have most likely been ignored and the fact that we cant correct our mistakes is our biggest weakness and although its mostly accepted that humanity will be the cause of our own extinction instead of trying to change that we have just accepted it
Well said.
Something marketed as a bombing?
“This world only responds to the closed fist, never the open hand”
Well Said
Well, hey… what’s three human lives if, perchance, they know Ted’s name?
I feel he probably didnt want to do the bombings but felt he must to get sheep to read his message and it actually become memorable
that'x exactly why
Your Arthur video seems to have given you a lot of attention. I’m glad I stumbled on it. All your videos do a good job of questioning things, I never thought to ask.
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives.
Highly recommended
#RipTed
I just stumbled unto your channel and I really like the production style, narration and subject matter. I will send links to my friends. Keep up the good work.
I highly recommend Wendigoon's video on Ted. His ideology seems more like an excuse for him to pursue revenge for petty squabbles. A lot of his targets didn't really make sense for his espoused goals. He more or less just became obsessed with wanting to kill people and avoid the repercussions. In his journals he grew more and more frustrated that his bombs weren't having the fatal results he was seeking.
Ted suffered trauma hospitalized as infant that changed his personality according to his mother.
Been saying this for 10 years but I idolize this man's manifesto and way of thinking and living. However, I don't necessarily agree with some of the actions she took in his life, I can still appreciate that part of it for what it is because it resonates with my sentiment and beliefs more than almost every other document I've ever come acrossed
Something tells me he would detest your idolization
He had Master's and Doctoral degrees in Mathematics from the University of Michigan. He had a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Harvard University. He had nothing to do with Economics education.
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives.
Highly recommended !.
Myself, I am highly skeptical of economics and economists. It seems to me to be unscientific, too oriented around theories that rely on irrational assumptions to facilitate mathematical treatment of "the economy".
It seems like economic predictions are often innaccurate, and economic solutions tend to favour intangible metrics such as GDP over actual human happiness, because you can do maths on numbers like GDP, but not on "human happiness".
Fascinating insight into the philosophical views of the Unabomber well made. Keep up the good work. Glad I stumbled upon your videos.
Excellent well done. Great short synopsis.
Listened to his manifesto two years ago and we’re getting very close to the world he thought would come.
we already there bro
i kept your arthur video on my browser without watching it for a bit of time, i go to this video and you went fro. 7.18k to 7.77k well done man you absolutely deserve it
You are so under appreciated bro, all of your videos are so well done and interesting.
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives.
Highly recommended
#RipTed
I find it interesting that his ideas on freedom inside the confines of what society and the system deems is tolerable behavior for the good of the system is eerily similar to his math thesis Boundary Functions which refers to functions that stay inside the confines of a given set of parameters (or system!)
Kaczynski figured out how to go viral by using the algorithm to his advantage before either of those terms were even part of the common lexicon. The fact that you made a video about him proves that his methods were effective.
so well put together visually and such interesting and important material - good job man
13:00 is missing a very interesting part; the wording which made his brother sure he was in the UniFamily and didn't wanna be!
While Ted's philosophies are interesting on their own, what is equally as interesting is what his writings on his philosophies reveal about how he viewed himself and his personal relations with others. Certainly a complex man.
Just a historical note: it was David's wife Linda who convinced him to read the manifesto closely enough to aver that the manifesto really could well, in fact, be written by Ted. David owned the thought probably in part because he didn't want his brother's ire to be directed at her.
Would love to see his take on Ian M Bank’s Culture novels
Imagine how cool this guy could have been if instead he'd sent glitter bombs to tech labs. THAT would have been genius.
mark rober 🤣
A bomb is a bomb smh
Okay... You're saying IEDs are comparible to glitter bombs? @@danielhayes3607
@@danielhayes3607bro are you really arguing that a package that emits glitter is the same as a package loaded with an explosive charge meant to mame and kill
@@default179 If a glitter bomb was sent to me I would've wished that it was an actual bomb
I'm really impressed with your analysis; it was very interesting to watch. I hope you do more videos like these in the future.
I’m sure I will! Thanks for watching ♥️ -Michael
Ted Kaczynski's books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution, present a thought-provoking critique of the role of technology in our lives.
Highly recommended
#RipTed
Perfect message but he went about spreading it in the worst possible way. RIP Ted
Would prefer to be TAGA then MAGA.
Being in nature is what we were meant for
Mother nature gave us the ability to create technology, I think it's perfectly natural. Our house is just like a birds nest, if they could make it warmer, safer, they would do it as well.
@@carlbeaumont1621agreed, and the materials are from nature, just refined. One can argue it is all natural, since it is all from nature, as are we.
The sad part is that he wasn’t wrong. All of his observations were correct and he drew conclusions on them that were likewise correct. How he made the leap from that to killing people will never be possible to understand since his death.
The AI he describes as being able to run things is a horror that has been explored in sci-fi multiple times over the years. The absolute logic that would drive it from doing everything to support humanity into doing everything it could to exterminate humanity is simple for a machine. It is so simple that he was able to cross the emotional boundaries into that logic.
I guess his thinking was that killing people would be the only things which might stir the pot and ensure that people read his manifesto, and so it was the only thing he could personally do which might bring about revolution. Also there was probably an element of revenge and anger.
"all of his observations were correct" source: TRUST ME BRO!!!
@@nolongerjuicyboiz4413 I do think his views shifted to being less "generally pissed off" as he got older. In Anti-Tech Revolution he doesn't really call for bombings or anything, I think he realized that bombing random people at universities wasn't getting him anywhere.
@jackjones4824 To all of that I say: and?
So what if we were only able to grow to 1b population? Oh no! We wouldn't be able to exploit and deplete resources at mach 6. We wouldn't be able to pollute the planet as much. What ever would we do.
The same for knowledge, especially internet and stuff. All of that came and comes at cost. Especially the web. Compute centers are gobbling up resources like mad. Not even talking about production, but running them. Electricity and water. Lots of them. All for a web that is 90% useless and 99% bloated. Using up more resources than necessary to provide decent websites. And depending on which websites we are talking about, can even be actively detrimental to society.
@jackjones4824 You actually make a good point. His ideals against technology are incorrect. As it is not the fault of the creation but rather the ones who have power over said creation. While there are aspects of nature that are good for humanity, I disagree that Nature is the perfect solution. Nature is inefficient, cruel, gratuitous and capricious. Therefore, most aspects of it are bad for humanity. Ted's philosophy involves regressing back to farm, Which I disagree with. I think we should regress to "Digital wild west". Think about it. While it was an immature and cruel era, it was also an era where creativity reigned supreme over the internet. Consequences weren't nonexistent but were rather balanced because people back then could actually recognize the moral changes in someone rather than being assholes who assume that people don't change. My point is, we should return to the Early 2000s to 2010s of the internet. It may be impossible to do with all the BS "Social Justice" crap but it is the best we can hope for.
The key issue with Kaczynski's angle is that he purported to oppose the perverse sort of authority that an industrial system holds over humanity but failed to recognize it as anything but an extension of the authority nature has over humanity. The sun lays waste to crops and by extension it sets the schedule, it determines the yield, it determines how much is left, and ultimately determines who is allowed to eat. Industry functions in the same way. All involved operate by the limits and needs of the machine. The authority held by a system exists whether or not it revolves around a "natural" element. Destroying the machines does not strike at the core of the issue- that being the character of that authority and how it influences the product of the system and those that participate in it. In fact, you happen to have a really good video on that exact character.
Now, some might say that they agree with his views but opposed his methods, but that's always come off as a limp platitude to me. If I believed him to be right I would only be able consider him to correct in pursuing his ultimate goal. However, I do not. I see him as an aimless eco-fascist who believed that the world and its people could not be trusted to change in any meaningful way. His words may resonate with people who are miserable with the inhumane systems that control our lives but I can only see him as narrow-sighted and deeply unimaginative. (After all, despite the limp critiques he has of liberals, the same appeals to the sanctity of nature and the brutality of authority are exactly the kind of directionless tripe you can find within the average left-ish keyboard warrior today. He would probably have had a great time getting into internet fights with them, if he wasnt the type to destroy snowplows lol)
You do know he hated both political spectrum, right ?
His critique was not about Liberals but Leftists. Leftists are anti-capitalists. Liberals are pro-capitalists. He argued Leftists were psychologically motivated by resentment of those more socially and materially successful. In the end, he too was a socially maladjusted person who wanted attention and resorted to violence to get it.
Living in a complex environment that requires skills to survive is not equal to living in a highly regulated system that places people in unnatural lifestyles wholly incompatible with happiness and self-actualization. Equating the nature of both these environments because they involve "struggle" is a shallow and nonsensical interpretation and has no backing.
Freedom is not having 1000hrs to draw your webcomic while having youtube.
Read his take on ecofascism
@@mjm5899 >implying anyone who criticizes Ted has or will ever read anything he has to say
"Psychology/Psychiatry measures a person's adaptation to the society in which they find themselves, no inquiry, however, is made as to that society's adaptation to the nature of things."- Dr. Hubert Benoit (Zen and the Psychology of Transformation)
Hes bang on, the only difference from him to the rest of us is probably his intelligence and insight that we just don't have.
Interestingly enough, in all of the dystopian novels Ive read (We, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, etc.) the antithesis and solution to the tyrannical societies is nature itself.
That is why the world elite want to manipulate mother nature and us humans with the "global warming carbon foodprint" b.s. Don't fall for it
Won't be me, nature scares me too lmfao.
In a logical line of reasoning it makes sense. Just consider the current political climate with people who would otherwise agree on many things yet want to kill each other because of the lies and propaganda that gets spread on social media. The same applies for all media, and Ted was likely able to see the writing on the wall with the way media was handled in his time and the advent of the internet…
We're part of it, couldn't be otherwise. We've been misguided from it, hence the problem.
I of course don't know the man, and perhaps he realized this before his death, but Ted seemed to not recognize that that the world and people would always be the same. There will always be people who want power by any means, and people like himself who would take radical action to stop them. He was one of those people more concerned with the problems of the world, rather than problems with himself.
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True. The more you fight what you think are the enemies, the more you become the monster. It’s because all of us, not just him, when fighting for a just or our own genuine cause, step over others or our morals without taking a step back to analyse the situation, which in tale will piss us off bc we will be back at square one again lol
@toohak2782 What are you saying? That it's wrong to fight back when you have an entire machine being leveraged against you? Morality is decided by those that wield power, because they're not afraid to wield it. They will kill you and imprison you without remorse, without any internal pushback within the "democratic" system. But if you try and exercise a small fraction of that power and autonomy you will be seen as the devil himself. Isn't that a little too convenient?
@@waffleyumboyr5342 if you’re going to fight, fight with full force and don’t go back. I’m just saying, the more you try and go after something or somebody, you will be no better than the machine itself. Meaning you’ll lose yourself within your own self diluted psyche bc what you thought was a genuine fight, was just your own selfish desires
@@waffleyumboyr5342 well that’s what they want you to think too. If you said anything pro about Hitler you will be condemned by these weak losers who think they hold power when in reality, you and me hold the power. We’re the new kids on the block ready to rage against the machine; no pun intended ;p