Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This video is a critical chapter by chapter summary of the so called "unabomber manifesto" or more accurately "Industrial society and it's future" which was written by Theodore Kaczynski in the mid-90s and co-founded certain primitivist and anarcho-primitivists since then. The manifesto expresses criticisms of industrial society and modern technology on the basis of individual freedom.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:59 Who was the unabomer?
4:32 Intro:
5:28 The psychology of leftism
6:12 Feelings of inferiority
7:13 Oversocialization
9:43 The power process
11:15 Surrogate activities
13:24 Autonomy
16:09 Sources of social problems
20:07 DISRUPTION OF THE POWER PROCESS IN MODERN SOCIETY
24:57 HOW SOME PEOPLE ADJUST
26:27 The motives of scientists
29:14 The nature of freedom
30:55 Some principles of history
32:48 RESTRICTION OF FREEDOM IS UNAVOIDABLE IN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
34:23 THE ‘BAD’ PARTS OF TECHNOLOGY CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM THE ‘GOOD’ PARTS
36:36 TECHNOLOGY IS A MORE POWERFUL SOCIAL FORCE THAN THE ASPIRATION FOR FREEDOM
39:26 SIMPLER SOCIAL PROBLEMS HAVE PROVED INTRACTABLE
40:30 REVOLUTION IS EASIER THAN REFORM
41:15 CONTROL OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
42:57 HUMAN RACE AT A CROSSROADS
44:52 The future
46:46 STRATEGY
51:49 Two kinds of technology.
53:56 The danger of leftism
57:38 Final note
58:20 Conclusion
1:00:30 Outro
Sources:
washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm
Transcript:
Hello everybody. As you may or may not know I am still in rehab right now, and will be for at least another 6 weeks, more details in my vlog on the second channel. It turns out rehab is mostly sitting in your room without anything to do so I decided to watch Unabomber documentaries on Netflix. And then I thought wow this guy seems smart.
So I read the entire Unabomber manifesto and I am about to give you a critical chapter by chapter review of the entire thing. As you can tell by the length I go into the details here, and when applicable I explain why I think the logic is flawed. Full disclosure I disagree with the manifesto but I will try to be as neutral as I can be, except for the parts which are obviously my opinions. If you already know who the Unabomber was and why he’s famous feel free to use the youtube chapter tool to skip the summary.
On May the 25th of 1978 a materials engineering professor received a package in the mail, upon opening it, it exploded in his hands causing minor injuries. Over the following years more parcel bombs were sent to universities and airlines. They knew those bombs came from the same person or group because they all had a metal plaque with the engraving “FC” in them.
They named the person responsible the university and airline bomber, or Unabomber. For 17 years he sent bombs, a total of 16, killing 3 people and permanently maiming 12 others. Then he sent a manifesto to major newspapers, he demanded they print it in full or he would keep bombing people.
After some deliberation the FBI gave the papers the go ahead to pint the manifesto. The thought was that if everyone read the it someone may recognise the ideas in it. This was a great strategy and it worked. A man reported to the FBI that his brother, a 50 year old man named Ted Kaczynski had very similar ideas.
Kaczynski lived in a 5 by 5 metre shack in the woods, living only of what he planted and what he hunted, for over 20 years at this point. When he was a kid he was considered very smart and he enrolled in Harvard at age 16. He became a mathematics professor and after making enough money to buy some land and build his shack he moved there. Completely off the grid.
After comparing Kaczynski’s letters to the manifesto of the Unabomber the FBI obtained a warrant to search his cabin. They found a finished parcel bombs, chemicals to build bombs, bomb parts and a detailed log of all of the bombs he had sent, as well as a draft of his manifesto and the typewriter he used to send his letters and the manifesto.
In the end he was convicted and is currently sitting in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. He would have gotten the death penalty but he was ruled criminally insane after a diagnosis with paranoid schizophrenia. His mental illness is in my eyes not an excuse for what he did or his ideas.
This video is a critical chapter by chapter summary of the so called "unabomber manifesto" or more accurately "Industrial society and it's future" which was written by Theodore Kaczynski in the mid-90s and co-founded certain primitivist and anarcho-primitivists since then. The manifesto expresses criticisms of industrial society and modern technology on the basis of individual freedom.
Patreon: patreon.com/viki1999
Subreddit: reddit.com/r/viki1999
Twitter: twitter.com/Viki1999Yt
E-Mail Address: viki1999mail@gmail.com
The song in the outro was produced by 08 (who gave me no way to credit them), you can listen to the whole remix on my second channel: youtu.be/jZOrMsIOZh0
5 person discord invite. Hit the bell to catch it under the next video. And please only use it if you willbe active on the server, otherwise leave it for others: discord.gg/hCbSZtsc6J
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:59 Who was the unabomer?
4:32 Intro:
5:28 The psychology of leftism
6:12 Feelings of inferiority
7:13 Oversocialization
9:43 The power process
11:15 Surrogate activities
13:24 Autonomy
16:09 Sources of social problems
20:07 DISRUPTION OF THE POWER PROCESS IN MODERN SOCIETY
24:57 HOW SOME PEOPLE ADJUST
26:27 The motives of scientists
29:14 The nature of freedom
30:55 Some principles of history
32:48 RESTRICTION OF FREEDOM IS UNAVOIDABLE IN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
34:23 THE ‘BAD’ PARTS OF TECHNOLOGY CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM THE ‘GOOD’ PARTS
36:36 TECHNOLOGY IS A MORE POWERFUL SOCIAL FORCE THAN THE ASPIRATION FOR FREEDOM
39:26 SIMPLER SOCIAL PROBLEMS HAVE PROVED INTRACTABLE
40:30 REVOLUTION IS EASIER THAN REFORM
41:15 CONTROL OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
42:57 HUMAN RACE AT A CROSSROADS
44:52 The future
46:46 STRATEGY
51:49 Two kinds of technology.
53:56 The danger of leftism
57:38 Final note
58:20 Conclusion
1:00:30 Outro
Sources:
washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm
Transcript:
Hello everybody. As you may or may not know I am still in rehab right now, and will be for at least another 6 weeks, more details in my vlog on the second channel. It turns out rehab is mostly sitting in your room without anything to do so I decided to watch Unabomber documentaries on Netflix. And then I thought wow this guy seems smart.
So I read the entire Unabomber manifesto and I am about to give you a critical chapter by chapter review of the entire thing. As you can tell by the length I go into the details here, and when applicable I explain why I think the logic is flawed. Full disclosure I disagree with the manifesto but I will try to be as neutral as I can be, except for the parts which are obviously my opinions. If you already know who the Unabomber was and why he’s famous feel free to use the youtube chapter tool to skip the summary.
On May the 25th of 1978 a materials engineering professor received a package in the mail, upon opening it, it exploded in his hands causing minor injuries. Over the following years more parcel bombs were sent to universities and airlines. They knew those bombs came from the same person or group because they all had a metal plaque with the engraving “FC” in them.
They named the person responsible the university and airline bomber, or Unabomber. For 17 years he sent bombs, a total of 16, killing 3 people and permanently maiming 12 others. Then he sent a manifesto to major newspapers, he demanded they print it in full or he would keep bombing people.
After some deliberation the FBI gave the papers the go ahead to pint the manifesto. The thought was that if everyone read the it someone may recognise the ideas in it. This was a great strategy and it worked. A man reported to the FBI that his brother, a 50 year old man named Ted Kaczynski had very similar ideas.
Kaczynski lived in a 5 by 5 metre shack in the woods, living only of what he planted and what he hunted, for over 20 years at this point. When he was a kid he was considered very smart and he enrolled in Harvard at age 16. He became a mathematics professor and after making enough money to buy some land and build his shack he moved there. Completely off the grid.
After comparing Kaczynski’s letters to the manifesto of the Unabomber the FBI obtained a warrant to search his cabin. They found a finished parcel bombs, chemicals to build bombs, bomb parts and a detailed log of all of the bombs he had sent, as well as a draft of his manifesto and the typewriter he used to send his letters and the manifesto.
In the end he was convicted and is currently sitting in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. He would have gotten the death penalty but he was ruled criminally insane after a diagnosis with paranoid schizophrenia. His mental illness is in my eyes not an excuse for what he did or his ideas.
