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Title: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society & Its Future by Unabomber FC, Fc ISBN: 0-9634205-2-6 Publisher: Jolly Roger Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: How do you unscamble an egg?
Comment: Brigham Young once observed that "We should not only study good, and its effects upon our race, but also evil, and its consequences." (Discourses of Brigham Young, 256-257.)

Frankly, I found this essay rather perceptive and very insightful about many of the problems of society. Mr. K. is an unquestioned genius-child prodigy at 15, educated a Harvard, and professing at Berkley-and this superman ability show through in his essay. He reminds us of Hannibal Lecter, Wolf Larsen, or the other Ted, Ted Bundy. And that is what is so . . . spellbinding about reading this Manifesto. He is intelligent, has a lot of good ideas and observations, but killing people?

I find Mr. K. an easy ready, and for a mathematician, he has a great facility for prose. However, I quite disagree with Mr. K's solution. And not just killing innocents. His madness goes beyond murder. For example, Mr. K advocates undoing the Industrial Revolution. In "Hurtling Toward Oblivion: A Logical Argument for the End of the Age," Richard A. Swenson makes the point that one of the factor that futurists follow is the principle of irreversibility. Commonlky stated, "We can't put the genie back in the bottle," or "You can't turn back the clock."

Mr. K. gets rather vague about how this revolution is to occur. How do you unscramble an egg? Not only is this madness, it is pure insanity!

Rating: 4
Summary: Good reading, but narrow focus on a weak argument.
Comment: I really like Mr. Kaczynski's description of the power process, how the process is hindered today, his description of surrogate activities, and his explanation on how what we do with technology today can affect our future. ISAIF has had a big influence on the way I think of society.

My problem with this critique, though, is that he focuses almost entirely on humans who live in industrialized countries when describing problems. He describes not our society's blatant destruction of the natural world and murder of animals, nor its harming of people in third-world countries, nor even the way that technology increases the power of those higher up in the socioeconomic hierarchy, but only what bad things technology does to individuals who don't know any happiness greater that what they get living in industrial society.

Essentially, ISAIF was doomed to be looked as something more of a "rant" by people who can't imagine a life without technology (much less a happy life) and are content with the way they live now.

Rating: 5
Summary: Indeed
Comment: Quite easily the greatest book of modern times. I encourage you to read it, but do not buy it here..jeeze. Just go to google and do a search for it.

Any lefty who thinks the planet can sustain another six billion is kidding himself and fits Ted's description of the leftist very well.

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