Cousin Ted Kaczynski
@cousinted.bsky.social
We advocate a revolution against the industrial system that may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades.
I live in a shack and follow back. All posts from my manifesto.
I live in a shack and follow back. All posts from my manifesto.
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As for the conformists and the cowards, they are beneath contempt and we need not say any more about them. The saints, on the other hand, deserve our respect. If we accepted their principles we would in effect be giving up the revolution, but all the same they may have an important role to play.
Psychologists use the term "socialization" to designate the process by which children are trained to think and act as society demands. A person is said to be well socialized if he believes in and obeys the moral code of his society and fits in well as a functioning part of that society.
August 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Psychologists use the term "socialization" to designate the process by which children are trained to think and act as society demands. A person is said to be well socialized if he believes in and obeys the moral code of his society and fits in well as a functioning part of that society.
Leftists may claim that their activism is motivated by compassion or by moral principles, and moral principle does play a role for the leftist of the oversocialized type. But compassion and moral principle cannot be the main motives for leftist activism.
August 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Leftists may claim that their activism is motivated by compassion or by moral principles, and moral principle does play a role for the leftist of the oversocialized type. But compassion and moral principle cannot be the main motives for leftist activism.
The leftist is anti-individualistic, procollectivist. He wants society to solve every one’s problems for them, satisfy everyone’s needs for them, take care of them.
May 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The leftist is anti-individualistic, procollectivist. He wants society to solve every one’s problems for them, satisfy everyone’s needs for them, take care of them.
Leftists say they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them.
May 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Leftists say they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them.
A considerable proportion of the system’s economic and
environmental problems result from the way human beings behave. Alienation, low self-esteem, depression, hostility, rebellion; children who won’t study, youth gangs, illegal drug use, rape, child abuse, other crimes...
environmental problems result from the way human beings behave. Alienation, low self-esteem, depression, hostility, rebellion; children who won’t study, youth gangs, illegal drug use, rape, child abuse, other crimes...
April 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A considerable proportion of the system’s economic and
environmental problems result from the way human beings behave. Alienation, low self-esteem, depression, hostility, rebellion; children who won’t study, youth gangs, illegal drug use, rape, child abuse, other crimes...
environmental problems result from the way human beings behave. Alienation, low self-esteem, depression, hostility, rebellion; children who won’t study, youth gangs, illegal drug use, rape, child abuse, other crimes...
They will need more and more training, more and more ability, and will have to be ever more reliable, conforming, and docile. Their tasks will be increasingly specialized, so that their work will be, in a sense, out of touch with the real world, being concentrated on one tiny slice of reality.
March 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
They will need more and more training, more and more ability, and will have to be ever more reliable, conforming, and docile. Their tasks will be increasingly specialized, so that their work will be, in a sense, out of touch with the real world, being concentrated on one tiny slice of reality.
The Industrial Revolution was supposed to eliminate poverty, make everybody happy, etc. The actual result has been quite different. The technophiles are hopelessly naive (or self-deceiving) in their understanding of social problem.
March 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Industrial Revolution was supposed to eliminate poverty, make everybody happy, etc. The actual result has been quite different. The technophiles are hopelessly naive (or self-deceiving) in their understanding of social problem.
It is naive to think it likely that technology can be phased out in a smoothly managed, orderly way, especially since the technophiles will fight stubbornly at every step. Is it therefore cruel to work for the breakdown of the system?
March 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It is naive to think it likely that technology can be phased out in a smoothly managed, orderly way, especially since the technophiles will fight stubbornly at every step. Is it therefore cruel to work for the breakdown of the system?
It is one thing to develop in the laboratory a series
of psychological or biological techniques for manipulating human behavior and quite another to integrate these techniques into a functioning social system.
of psychological or biological techniques for manipulating human behavior and quite another to integrate these techniques into a functioning social system.
March 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It is one thing to develop in the laboratory a series
of psychological or biological techniques for manipulating human behavior and quite another to integrate these techniques into a functioning social system.
of psychological or biological techniques for manipulating human behavior and quite another to integrate these techniques into a functioning social system.
Science and technology constitute a powerful mass movement, and many scientists gratify their need for power through identification with this mass movement.
March 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Science and technology constitute a powerful mass movement, and many scientists gratify their need for power through identification with this mass movement.
If a change is made that is sufficiently large to alter permanently a longterm historical trend, then it will alter the society as a whole. You can’t permanently change any important part of society without changing all other parts as well.
March 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If a change is made that is sufficiently large to alter permanently a longterm historical trend, then it will alter the society as a whole. You can’t permanently change any important part of society without changing all other parts as well.
If a trend were not stable with respect to small changes, it would wander at random rather than following a definite direction; in other words it would not be a long-term trend at all.
March 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If a trend were not stable with respect to small changes, it would wander at random rather than following a definite direction; in other words it would not be a long-term trend at all.
Those who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect” terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of
activists, many of whom do not even belong to any “oppressed” group but come from privileged strata of society.
activists, many of whom do not even belong to any “oppressed” group but come from privileged strata of society.
March 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Those who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect” terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of
activists, many of whom do not even belong to any “oppressed” group but come from privileged strata of society.
activists, many of whom do not even belong to any “oppressed” group but come from privileged strata of society.
Leftish anthropologists go to great lengths to avoid saying anything about primitive peoples that could conceivably be interpreted as negative. They want to replace the word “primitive” by “nonliterate”
March 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Leftish anthropologists go to great lengths to avoid saying anything about primitive peoples that could conceivably be interpreted as negative. They want to replace the word “primitive” by “nonliterate”
It should not be assumed that a person has enough
freedom just because he says he has enough. Freedom is restricted in part by unconscious psychological controls, and many people’s ideas of what constitutes freedom are governed more by social convention than by their real needs.
freedom just because he says he has enough. Freedom is restricted in part by unconscious psychological controls, and many people’s ideas of what constitutes freedom are governed more by social convention than by their real needs.
March 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It should not be assumed that a person has enough
freedom just because he says he has enough. Freedom is restricted in part by unconscious psychological controls, and many people’s ideas of what constitutes freedom are governed more by social convention than by their real needs.
freedom just because he says he has enough. Freedom is restricted in part by unconscious psychological controls, and many people’s ideas of what constitutes freedom are governed more by social convention than by their real needs.
Does the cheap electricity generated from nuclear power outweigh the accumulating waste and the risk of accidents? Edward Teller thought it did. I do not.
March 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Does the cheap electricity generated from nuclear power outweigh the accumulating waste and the risk of accidents? Edward Teller thought it did. I do not.
Even if most people in industrial-technological society were well satisfied, I would still be opposed to that form of society,because it is demeaning to fulfill one’s need for the power process through surrogate activities and being part of an organization rather than through pursuit of real goals.
March 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Even if most people in industrial-technological society were well satisfied, I would still be opposed to that form of society,because it is demeaning to fulfill one’s need for the power process through surrogate activities and being part of an organization rather than through pursuit of real goals.
Technical advances taken together have created a world in which the average man’s fate is no longer in his own hands but in those of politicians, corporation executives and remote, anonymous technicians and bureaucrats whom he as an individual has no power to influence.
March 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Technical advances taken together have created a world in which the average man’s fate is no longer in his own hands but in those of politicians, corporation executives and remote, anonymous technicians and bureaucrats whom he as an individual has no power to influence.
Even if a code of ethics were chosen on a completely democratic basis, the majority would be imposing their own values on any minorities who might have a different
idea of what constituted an “ethical” use of genetic engineering
idea of what constituted an “ethical” use of genetic engineering
March 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Even if a code of ethics were chosen on a completely democratic basis, the majority would be imposing their own values on any minorities who might have a different
idea of what constituted an “ethical” use of genetic engineering
idea of what constituted an “ethical” use of genetic engineering
Some people may have some exceptional drive, in pursuing which they satisfy their need for the power process. For example, those who have an unusually strong drive for social status may spend their whole lives climbing the status ladder without ever getting bored with that game.
February 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Some people may have some exceptional drive, in pursuing which they satisfy their need for the power process. For example, those who have an unusually strong drive for social status may spend their whole lives climbing the status ladder without ever getting bored with that game.
If the Founding Fathers had lost their nerve and declined to sign the Declaration of Independence, maybe we would have had somewhat closer ties to Britain, and would have had a Parliament and Prime Minister instead of a Congress and President. No big deal.
February 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If the Founding Fathers had lost their nerve and declined to sign the Declaration of Independence, maybe we would have had somewhat closer ties to Britain, and would have had a Parliament and Prime Minister instead of a Congress and President. No big deal.
A reform movement designed to clean up political corruption in a society rarely has more than a short-term effect; sooner or later the reformers relax and corruption creeps back in.
The level of political corruption in a given society tends to remain constant.
The level of political corruption in a given society tends to remain constant.
February 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A reform movement designed to clean up political corruption in a society rarely has more than a short-term effect; sooner or later the reformers relax and corruption creeps back in.
The level of political corruption in a given society tends to remain constant.
The level of political corruption in a given society tends to remain constant.
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what might be called the bourgeois conception of freedom.
February 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what might be called the bourgeois conception of freedom.
If we had never done anything violent and had submitted the
present writings to a publisher, they probably would not have been accepted.
present writings to a publisher, they probably would not have been accepted.
February 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If we had never done anything violent and had submitted the
present writings to a publisher, they probably would not have been accepted.
present writings to a publisher, they probably would not have been accepted.
Many modern people have neverput their physical powers to any practical use; they have never gone through the power process using their bodies in a serious way. If your need for the power process has been satisfied during your life will prepare you to accept the end of that life.
February 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Many modern people have neverput their physical powers to any practical use; they have never gone through the power process using their bodies in a serious way. If your need for the power process has been satisfied during your life will prepare you to accept the end of that life.