KACZYNSKI
An interview of Ted Kaczynski By James Patterson. The Unibomber, Kaczynski has an I.Q. of 177: "It's simple really. The more we ask technology to do for us, the more power we have to give it. Right now the world's most brilliant minds are designing artificial intelligence and robots that they think will solve all our problems but will only spell doom for the entire human race! Human beings can't handle this kind of power.Who could? Once AI and robots are in place, they will either destroy humanity outright or give one person -- the head of Google, say -- a measure of godlike power that Caligula never dreamed possible.Right now, who is really more powerful? Google or the NSA? How about tomorrow? I tried to stop all this from happening. I saw what was coming."
I contend that this is what IQ is and nothing more unless of course, one has a conscience; which only comes with an awareness of the subconscious, which I contend also, is our connection to the mind. That's where wisdom and conscience comes from. Without it, one is a very dangerous entity.
IQ alone, really means nothing unless it is integrated with conscience and the mind...the very source of self control, introspection, morals, ethics and a profound understanding of the consequences of ones behavior or actions.
Certainly do all the libtard liars of the mainstream media.
Under that surface lies self hatred expressed and blamed upon everyone else...
I was compelled to read some of his manifesto because of this post. I had to quit around the 160th numbered paragraph he seemed he was going on and on. He did refer to himself as we throughout. I found much of his description of the leftist collectivists to be very well examined
I certainly have a different view of him after reading 1/2 his diatribe.
I do have a much different view of technology
than he does. I agree that tech makes it easier for evil people to be more evil. It also has many upsides for good.
I found this very interesting: " Human beings have a need (probably based in biology) for something that we will call the “power process.” This is closely related to the need for power (which is widely recognized) but is not quite the same thing. The power process has four elements. The three most clear-cut of these we call goal, effort and attainment of goal. (Everyone needs to have goals whose attainment requires effort, and needs to succeed in attaining at least some of his goals.) The fourth element is more difficult to define and may not be necessary for everyone. We call it autonomy."
" Autonomy as a part of the power process may not be necessary for every individual. But most people need a greater or lesser degree of autonomy in working toward their goals. Their efforts must be undertaken on their own initiative and must be under their own direction and control." I think there is a great deal of truth to this idea.
My dad would always say you can be very smart but you need common sense. Kaczynski, with his terroristic acts sadly lacked common sense.
Had he used his brilliance to create a message and understanding of the leftists flaws and agendas , his legacy would have been far more favorable and he taken more seriously.
Regards,DOB
As I have observed, not many have this ability or desire on their own therefore it should be rare indeed, that an individual be fully trusted without some sort of guidance from someone who does.
Mankind has evolved way too fast. I fear that many have skipped over the important considerations in the attainment of our goals.
Kinda sounds like our very own demoncraps of the left and progressives now doesn't it.
Are split brained or single hemisphere humans any more free of evilness and irrationality than the normal brained human? I would guess not.
Once man, (some men), became self aware and introspective, that rudimentary physical split was bridged and integration or wisdom was made possible...but that too, doesn't mean we engage in that process...sadly.
I did not understand your concept of harmony without peace. Cen you help me?
Homo sapiens is a form of life on this planet. As all living things, it is driven by the three most basic drives: to survive, to adapt and to procreate and multiply. Built into that is competition for space and for supporting resources.
With sizeable portion of the population illiterate and having no idea what the word philosophy means, how do you expect to conquer those basic drives? It would take a utopia to make it happen - with the reality left behind.
From bands of kin, to tribes, to related tribal groups, ethnic identities in empires, to nation states, we arrived to United States as the first experiment in nationhood ignoring ethnicities and races: the melting pot. Well, you can see how well that is working even two and a half centuries later.
We must accept the reality of slow evolution.
EDIT: Missing words and spelling.
Excellent sources on the Unabomber's background, goals and actions are:
Ron Arnold's EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature -- The World of the Unabomber, Chapters 1-3 "The Bomb", "Manifesto", and "The Bomber" pp 1-101.
Alston Chase's Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist.
"We have no illusions about the feasibility of creating a new, ideal form of society. Our goal is only to destroy the existing form of society.
"But an ideology, in order to gain enthusiastic support, must have a positive ideal as well as a negative one; it must be FOR something as well as AGAINST something. The positive ideal that we propose is Nature. That is, WILD nature: those aspects of the functioning of the Earth and its living things that are independent of human management and free of human interference and control. And with wild nature we include human nature, by which we mean those aspects of the functioning of the human individual that are not subject to regulation by organized society but are products of chance, or free will, or God (depending on your religious or philosophical opinions).
"Nature makes a perfect counter-ideal to technology for several reasons. Nature (that which is outside the power of the system) is the opposite of technology (which seeks to expand indefinitely the power of the system). Most people will agree that nature is beautiful; certainly it has tremendous popular appeal. The radical environmentalists ALREADY hold an ideology that exalts nature and opposes technology. [30] It is not necessary for the sake of nature to set up some chimerical utopia or any new kind of social order. Nature takes care of itself: It was a spontaneous creation that existed long before any human society, and for countless centuries many different kinds of human societies coexisted with nature without doing it an excessive amount of damage. Only with the Industrial Revolution did the effect of human society on nature become really devastating. To relieve the pressure on nature it is not necessary to create a special kind of social system, it is only necessary to get rid of industrial society. Granted, this will not solve all problems. Industrial society has already done tremendous damage to nature and it will take a very long time for the scars to heal. Besides, even pre-industrial societies can do significant damage to nature. Nevertheless, getting rid of industrial society will accomplish a great deal. It will relieve the worst of the pressure on nature so that the scars can begin to heal. It will remove the capacity of organized society to keep increasing its control over nature (including human nature). Whatever kind of society may exist after the demise of the industrial system, it is certain that most people will live close to nature, because in the absence of advanced technology there is no other way that people CAN live...
"As for the negative consequences of eliminating industrial society—well, you can’t eat your cake and have it too. To gain one thing you have to sacrifice another."
Compare that with Ayn Rand's The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. And compare it to Earth First's Live Wild or Die journal in the 1980s and 90s that Kaczynski was reading -- including their issue in 1990 proclaiming in a quote by International Workers of the World leader Bill Haywood, "Sabotage means to push pack, pull out or break off the fangs of capitalism", accompanied by what they called the "Eco-Fucker Hit List" with names and addresses of their enemies, including the California Forestry Association where Gil Murray was murdered by Kaczynski.
15. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They 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, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.
16. Words like “self-confidence,” “self-reliance,” “initiative,” “enterprise,” “optimism,” etc., play little role in the liberal and leftist vocabulary. The leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society to solve everyone’s problems for them, satisfy everyone’s needs for them, take care of them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.
17. Art forms that appeal to modern leftish intellectuals tend to focus on sordidness, defeat and despair, or else they take an orgiastic tone, throwing off rational control as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation and all that was left was to immerse oneself in the sensations of the moment.
18. Modern leftish philosophers tend to dismiss reason, science, objective reality and to insist that everything is culturally relative. It is true that one can ask serious questions about the foundations of scientific knowledge and about how, if at all, the concept of objective reality can be defined. But it is obvious that modern leftish philosophers are not simply cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality. They attack these concepts because of their own psychological needs. For one thing, their attack is an outlet for hostility, and, to the extent that it is successful, it satisfies the drive for power. More importantly, the leftist hates science and rationality because they classify certain beliefs as true (i.e., successful, superior) and other beliefs as false (i.e., failed, inferior). The leftist’s feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness and of the utility of IQ tests. Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individual’s ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is “inferior” it is not his fault, but society’s, because he has not been brought up properly.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MODERN LEFTISM
6. Almost everyone will agree that we live in a deeply troubled society. One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is leftism, so a discussion of the psychology of leftism can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of modern society in general.
Branden
He ranted at both the left and the right establishments. Kaczynski was a loaner paranoid over any kind of establishment. He didn't join viro organizations either, staying by himself as a hermit in the wilderness. The viros didn't know who he was, but he hated industrial civilization, read their radical publications, and acted on them to target his last victims.
The last one was Gil Murray of the California Forestry Association, which had been fingered by the radical viros and which is certainly not the left. You can read the gory description of that and Kaczynski's motjves Ron Arnold's Ecoterror. The list of Kaczynski's bombings is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kac...
He was in no way even remotely intellectually allied with us against the left or anything else, quite aside from his murders that almost everyone opposes.