The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people? If, in the future, people, animals and plants were products of technology? If you don't… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so forth... — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs. — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
We are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe they are… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
