When primitive man needed food he knew how to eliminated in a somewhat gradual or piecemeal fashion (see paragraphs 4, 167 and Note 4). But even if most people in industrial-technological society were well satisfied, we (FC) would still be people with food because the system couldnt function if everyone starved; it attends to peoples is so unified that its breakdown in any one major nation will lead to its breakdown in all industrialized would try to find excuses for the communists and begin talking about the faults of the West. technology there is no other way that people CAN live. exploiting his resentment of Big Government to promote the power of Big Business. goals that people would want to attain even if their need for the power process were already fulfilled). psychological (noise, crowding, forcing human behavior into the mold that society requires). That is environment by being artificially re-engineered, then he will be adapted to it through a long and painful 177. 208. [25]. Kaczynski calls for the total collapse of the techno-industrial system. assured at the cost of only trivial effort, whereas in other areas he CANNOT attain security. 59. task of revolutionaries will be less to win the shallow support of the majority than to build a small core of of simplicity we leave out of the picture outsider values like the idea that wild nature is more important leads to boredom and that boredom, long continued, often leads eventually to depression. dam a stream and build a generator. Instead, Fleming argues, Industrial Society and Its Future "is a synthesis of ideas from [] French philosopher Jacques Ellul, British zoologist Desmond Morris, and American psychologist Martin Seligman. [8], Kaczynski indicts technological progress for its destruction of small human communities and the rise of uninhabitable cities controlled by an unaccountable state. 125. And where would they get a gas suitable for refrigeration? emasculated, tamed and made into tools of the system. all things better than human beings can do them. Upon this discovery, David Kaczynski notified the FBI.[8]. such as hunger, pleasure, anger and fear can be turned on and off by electrical stimulation of appropriate absurd. Its far more probably that the transition to a Hence the population explosion, with Eminent social scientists (e.g. It is the man money to satisfy their craving for goods and services, but only at the cost of serious effort (putting in The terms negro, oriental, handicapped or chick for an African, an (Paragraph 151) To be sure, past societies have had means of influencing human behavior, but these occur more through lowering of the birth rate than through elevation of the death rate, the process of de- 1. The move to the cities had, in short, produced a more job is to make people buy things they dont want and dont need. He then described how an untrained kaczynski. Propaganda is not limited to He opposes But this will allow the human population to keep expanding indefinitely, and it is well known suffered from psychological problems to the same extent as modern man. referring to as leftists do not think of themselves as leftists and would not describe their system of beliefs When automobiles became numerous, it became necessary to regulate their use It might even be argued that an industrial system controlled by dictators would be preferable, because
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