A TV series made me finish reading a paper "On Industrial Society and Its Future", which was written by Tde, the male villain of the show. Tde got people's attention by mailing bombs. From 1978 to 1997, Ted sent a total of 16 mail bombs, killing 3 people and injuring 23 people. The target of the attack was mainly a university professor of science and engineering, so the murderer was called the "University Bomber" (Unabomber).
During the FBI's more than ten years of investigation, 500 special agents were used, more than 200 suspects were mistakenly arrested, tens of thousands of people were interviewed, more than 20,000 whistleblower calls were received, and 5 million US dollars was spent, but nothing was found. The case became one of the most expensive investigations in the FBI's history, and it was also the FBI's longest and most labor-intensive case.
In April 1995, the murderer committed another crime, sending four items at once: two mail bombs, which killed Gebt Murray, president of the California Forestry Association, and David Murray, a professor of computer science at Yale University. Garrett's fingers; a warning letter to 1993 Nobel laureate geneticists Richard Robert and Philip Sharp to stop genetic research immediately; The 35,000-word article promised that he would permanently stop the bombings if the American mainstream media ran the full text word for word.
The FBI director and the U.S. attorney general eventually agreed to publish the article. It was published in the New York Times and Washington Post on September 19, 1995, under the title "Industrial Society and Its Future."
Readers are surprised to find that this is a speculative philosophical essay written by an author with obvious academic training. The thesis claims that the industrial revolution has brought about human disasters, and technology makes human beings lose their freedom, which will eventually lead to social unrest or even destruction, and people should destroy the modern industrial system. That's why killers attack university professors because they push technology forward.
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After the paper was published, the FBI received a clue: Someone reported that the writing style and arguments of the paper were very similar to that of his brother Ted Kaczynski (Ted Kaczynski).
On April 3, 1996, Kasinski was arrested in Montana. He lived in the wilderness away from the crowds and built a log cabin full of bomb material. So far, the parcel bomb case has been solved.
Kasinski's life is unusual. Born in 1942, he has a superhuman mathematical genius since he was a child, and was admitted to the mathematics department of Harvard University at the age of 16.
In 1962, he entered the University of Michigan to study for a Ph.D. in mathematics, and received his Ph.D. in just a few months. The advisor said that his doctoral dissertation was so profound that only a dozen people in the United States could understand it. At 25, he was hired as an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the youngest professor in the school's history.
Kaczynski resigned after less than two years at Berkeley, for no reason. He has since left academia and has lived a reclusive life. In 1971, with the help of his parents, he built a log cabin in a remote mountainous area of Montana and moved there. There is no electric light, telephone or running water in the house. On weekdays, he eats the vegetables he grows and the food he hunts, lights candles and reads books at night, and chops wood to cook for warmth. In 1978, he sent his first mail bomb there, targeting a random selection in the library.
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Looking back at this paper today in 2019, many theories are not unreasonable. The remarks of this madman and genius:
1. Regarding the current situation of human beings, the author's first sentence is: "Industrial civilization has brought mankind a great disaster."
"Industrial civilization has greatly increased life expectancy in developed countries, but it has also destabilized societies, emptied life, robbed human dignity, contributed to the spread of mental illness, and wreaked havoc on the natural world."
2. After a new technology is born, it is unlikely to be rejected because "every new technology is desirable in isolation", and then humans will rely on it.
"Electricity, sewers, wireless phones...how can one person oppose these things? How can one object to countless technological advancements? All the new technologies come together to create such a world. In A world in which the fate of the common man is no longer in his own hands, but in the hands of politicians, corporate executives, technologists and bureaucrats.
3. Low self-esteem, depressive tendencies and failures are not limited to the left, these problems are widespread in our society, although they are especially pronounced on the left. Society today is trying to socialize us to a greater extent than any society in the past. There are even experts who tell us how to eat, how to exercise, how to have sex, how to educate children and more.
4. Today, in technologically advanced areas, people's lifestyles are very similar. A Christian bank clerk in Chicago, a Buddhist bank clerk in Tokyo, a communist bank clerk in Moscow, their daily lives are very similar to each other, but their lives are very different from the lives of people 1,000 years ago. This is the result of technological progress...
5. Feminists are desperate to prove that women are as strong as men. The fear that women may not be as powerful as men, apparently, is very disturbing to them.
6. Today's society tries to socialize us to a greater extent than any society in the past. There are even experts who tell us how to eat, how to exercise, how to have sex, how to educate children and more.
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It has been more than 30 years since the publication of "On Industrial Society and Its Future", the Internet and artificial intelligence have become a reality, and genetic technology has begun to sprout. Human beings are fascinated by new technologies to an inexhaustible level, and they can’t wait for more. A new technology is still in the laboratory, and people begin to plan how to form productivity as soon as possible and occupy as many markets as possible. Kaczynski's prophecy seems to be becoming a reality step by step, and human beings are accelerating their own destruction without caring.
For the future world, I personally feel more inclined to be pessimistic. That's not to say I'm a pessimist, but because everything goes in the direction of being easier, it's determined by the tendency of things themselves, so what's easy? Destruction is always easier than construction, and this is the reason why the world will most likely decline in the future.
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