A Manifesto

In september 1995, The Washington Post ran a piece titled Industrial Society and Its Future, a manifesto, signed F. C. – Freedom Club. As it soon turned out, this freedom club was an individual, Ted Kaczynski, for a decade and a half prior known to the United States of America, and a large part of the world, under his code name Unabomber. In different circumstances, the Manifesto would have been read by a couple of dozen readers, but the notoriety of its author, to this day the best-known American terrorist, provided it with a cult status practically overnight. But was the author’s controversy really the only reason for the text to be interesting? Even reading it decades later, the ideas of the murderous bombing nut seem anything but crazy. Cosmetic reforms cannot keep up with the unbridled progress of technology and the consequences that this development has on the human animal, so all of this requires us to rethink deeply the foundations of our social reality. And not just rethink, but act, too. Is it true that only bombs can wake us up? The response of the mathematical genius, murderer, visionary, criminal, amateur trombone player and tactics master is clear. The forest man called Ted has said it all. What can we add to it?