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.
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.
It is flawled tho. One can use it as an excuse to threat other's life or property, therefore comes the adage "your freedom stops where someones else 's freedom start" wich objectively is a prescription of how you can use your freedom.
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
@@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
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
"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.
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.
“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.
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......
@@aoeu256 Removing stupidity, if you can even accurately define it, is not going to solve anything. Displacing an aspect of our psychology or physiology is something that has been explored many times e.g. Brave New World, or the modern film Equilibrium. How and who makes the definition of what is to be displaced. All you do is inevitably create more problems than you solve. Ted was right, the blueprint is already made, it's our failure to live in alignment with that that causes the problems.. there isn't anything inherently wrong with us.
Its so rare and refreshing to find a RU-vidr 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.
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.
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 was once at a red light super early in morning, like 3am. I said out loud: "this is stupid" and drove on. Naturally a cop comes right out. I looked at him and said: "Really?". He laughed, shrugged and we both went about our day
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.
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
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.
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
He really tarnished his reputation by becoming a domestic terrorist. He would've been regarded as the Nietzsche/Freud/Marx (in terms of influence; I detest all of these names) of the 21st century.
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.
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
@@pseudoplotinus terrible example. he's influence tons of artist of all mediums throughout the years. Also left a significant cultural impact by founding churches that influenced the creation of other churches and movement. 100,000's of members over the years AT LEAST. Its okay to be influenced by complicated people, and even people who did unethical things. people are complicated, don't be naive.
@@devlingreener2182 how am I being naive? freud, marx and nietzsche had an impact on (at least the modern) world. compared to them crowley is a total nobody. and what does that make kaczynski in comparison? he isn't even considered in small academic circles. kaczynski's ideas were great but he was an idealist. his ideas are in the same vein as someone like tolstoy's christian anarchism, who, although influential, even he didn't 'make an impact'. making an impact involves literally changing the world, you know an IMPACT. look again at marx. look again at freud.
".....he was wrong in his solution." It is easier to smell a rotten egg, then to lay a better one. If you don't have an effective solution, than you have no objective refutation of his.
@@platinumfalconm3891 You don't have to have a solution to know his was a bad idea. I wouldn't even tend to blame the guy if he targeted very specific people. But innocents were involved. I mean McVeigh, he targeted a preschool supposedly in the Murrah building?
@@AiMR I never bought into the McVeigh story. Even if he was involved, the ruling class moved mountains to cover up evidence of multiple people being involved in that op.
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.
Fantastic video, I've been in search of a good channel such as this. Other channel seem to like to write their scripts as if they needed to reach a certain word count.
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.
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 RU-vidr 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
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'll often find RU-vidrs 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 RU-vid's shitty algorithm that makes it very hard for small creators to be discovered. That's it. There's plenty of very educational RU-vid 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.
@@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.
@@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.
Spot on analysis. One thing he got wrong though, and it’s a common misconception in today’s society. He assumed there is a solution. There isn’t. As long as the system can be used to allow some people to enjoy enormous wealth and power, you will never wrest that system from them. You can add him to an ever growing list of people (like Smedley Butler and George Carlin) who recognized the truth but could do nothing about it.
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 RU-vid 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.
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.
@@secretname2670 a very high iq might be already a sign of brain malfunction, brain is always in hiper drive and many ppl with high iq might suffer from depression, allucinations and psychosis if they cannot switch off. Most feel disconnected from others.
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
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
"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
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
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.
I love your content, your channel is my favourite channel on RU-vid! 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!
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 👎👎👎👎
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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
I had exactly the same theory about the industrial revolution without knowing anything about Ted. Since the dawn of civilisation up until the 1800s humans could cope with the slow rate of inventions, since the 1800s the speed and complexity of inventions especially over the last 20 years is becoming too much for humans to cope with.
ted isnt the first person to think of this stuff people have been saying since the beginning of the industrial revolution that it was going to have negative effects
Very true. Given that AI is a thing now, it really makes you wonder if all of this was inevitable and humans are just outliving their use now. Our species started off as hunter-gatherers, but we were intelligent enough to realize that agriculture was a way more efficient system to get our needs met. And then industrialization came along only a few centuries ago, and it made things even more efficient. But now it's becoming apparent that human beings THEMSELVES are inefficient for the system, because an intelligent computer can do many things at a lower cost with no need to eat.
Ted was not at economics major in undergrad, he was a Math major. Ted's brother did not recognize his writing in the newspaper. His sister-in-law Linda did. Ted's death was not "likely" suicide. It was a conclusive and official medical determination. Do your homework.
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.
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
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@@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).
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".
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.
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"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)
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.
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.
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.
He once said it was personal revenge. Even if there's truth to that, it's not the absolute truth. There's infinite ways to get attention and he chose to kill innocent people. Just to add i agree completely with everything he concluded. But this feeling is most likely wrong
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.
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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
From the second he's born, the human's mission from birth to death, is to keep himself as fed and distracted as possible from the dreadful realization that his existence is completely meaningless.
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.
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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.
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
I think when people find themselves agreeing with his ideas they often lose sight of his murders of random innocent people, which was irrational, foolish, cowardly, selfish, and senseless. He targeted airlines because he was annoyed by planes flying overhead, he targeted universities because of his trauma from mental abuse there. He was also misogynistic. Of course, a lot of intelligent thinkers with good ideas do terrible things. That doesn't mean their ideas are incorrect. However I don't think you can say it is objectively correct, that is certainly subjective. Regardless, it is important not to forget who he was as a man - a man who committed evil, not positive change. Regardless, I appreciated this video, it was interesting and useful.
his ideas were wrong at the core to think we should live in times when everything was worse off to get rid of some problems is stupid i would rather deal with my problems sitting in my house with ac lmao he talks bad on medicines for mental issues what else do you do? Its like healing your gunshot on a leg in exchange to be shot in the shoulder
Roosavelt started WW2, 60 million died, what good did that do, and was never charged. Kissenger bombed 100,000 camdodians, and not charged. Peace be unto you.
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!❤
What he did made it virtually impossible for anyone sharing his views to create a semi-valid foothold, but I understand his rage, I am basically living out in the mountains and ive learnt the entire mountain range will soon be demolished to make way for luxury villas, the rage I am feeling is unfathomable and I understand his rage.
I agree with you sure it is nice to have modern things car, hot water propane heat packaged food and sure there is a trade off to have those things like " work in the system" however I am sick of people buying so much excess just for the sake of it, how much does a person need? Myself I just need a few changes of clothes a vehicle and a house.
A while ago I read his manifest, well started reading. I never finished but let me tell you that he said very real and truthful things about the world. About politics. His awareness truly was one of a person who can pierce the veil set up by our slave masters.
See the problem with trying to fight back against technology and the intentions that the manifest strives for, is that the only way to actually push back against the modern technology is to fight back against the most powerful and dangerous human desire. Greed. We as a society allow for new technology to be implemented due to the more benefits it has, making things far more easier and thus making our lifestyle far more lazier. We've managed to kinda manipulate ourselves to kill our own society for simple benefits that make life easier. Take credit cards for example. Credit Cards seem for more better and easier than money, however the huge con of Credit cards is the fact that privacy for what we purchase is now gone forever. However we don't really think about that, and instead ignore it due to the benefits of a lazier lifestyle. Basically, we use our own selfish greed to justify the horrible consequences on our society. The problem here is, trying to get people to actually fight back against modern technology thats ruining us is basically impossible. Trying to convince the middle aged and the youngth to completely change and fight back against their lifestyle that they've been used too for years, is never really gonna happen. It's not like Martin Luther King, he could fight back against racism easier because obviously millions of blacks and whites were sick of racism. So getting alot of people on boarded to fight back, is way easier and logical then trying to do the same against modern technology. I think the only way we can fight back against this huge problem, Is to try and make community's like the Amish to be more widespread I know the Amish don't always get good wrap, especially for political reasons that alot of snowflakes from our society can't handle. But let's be honest here, I bet the majority of Amish people are far more healthier and happier than any of us are. I think trying to convince more people to join the old ways of living on a farm in a far more labour induced society like the Amish, is really the only way we can bring back our humanity with nature. Nowadays kids can't run afew miles without acting like it was a marathon, but even just afew decades ago kids could run for the same distance with alot more ease. I think bringing back family farms will not only help our society but also the problems that people have with slaughter houses. But at the end of the day, if we wanna fix what technology is doing to us, we have to take the first steps ourselves to achieving that. It would be very hard and a big achievement, but I think the future of humanity depends on it. It's either we try now to make sure our future society is healthy and independent, or we let our society crumble as more and more people become lazier and dependent on the government to live.
@jackbluehq6653 You should have finished reading it! First you wouldn't have to have written that long comment and second you would realize that you are just regirgitate a dumbed down version of what he wrote.
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
He killed three of his targets, and was smarter than any of us. Therefore, I suspect his actions in fact did have an impact. It would be interesting to see what the ripple effects were of the deaths, and the injuries of his targets.
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