Navaho Gunleg

…that Unabomber Manifesto isn’t that bad at all…. The guy does make some interesting points.

Before reading this, I was under the impression that the guy was crazy, had radical ideas and wanted to kill everyone. But his manifesto seems like a spot-on analysis of the current state of mankind. Paragraphs like this:

Leftism is totalitarian force. Wherever leftism is in a position of power it tends to invade every private corner and force every thought into a leftist mold. In part this is because of the quasi-religious character of leftism; everything contrary to leftists beliefs represents Sin. More importantly, leftism is a totalitarian force because of the leftists’ drive for power. The leftist seeks to satisfy his need for power through identification with a social movement and he tries to go through the power process by helping to pursue and attain the goals of the movement (see paragraph 83). But no matter how far the movement has gone in attaining its goals the leftist is never satisfied, because his activism is a surrogate activity (see paragraph 41). That is, the leftist’s real motive is not to attain the ostensible goals of leftism; in reality he is motivated by the sense of power he gets from struggling for and then reaching a social goal.

For a supposed ‘loony bombing terrorist‘ the wording above seems quite intelligent. He’s absolutely spot-on there.

But the more important thing I noted — the whole document doesn’t threaten to kill a single soul either — it only speaks about disrupting ‘the system’. This ‘crash of society’ the Unabomber seemed to want to initiate, in my point of view, is nothing more than a logical next step: the state of society will decline, the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer and we’re all going to be unhappy before we all fucking die after a life of working our asses of.

And yes, the only thing to prevent all this from happening is to blow it all fucking up.

Interestingly, would making the above statement (or agreeing with it), make one a terrorist-loving repressive element that should be removed from society? As ‘they’ are heavily trying to criminalize ‘feelings of understanding’ for terrorism, I conclude that, sadly, governments think they should.

I had this silly misplaced idea that democracy was about freedom of thought and expression, though. Apparently, even I make mistakes…
 
Unabomber, Society, Freedom