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6that the power of the system makes such a profound revolution unlikely But he thinks that"during the next several decades the industrial-technological system will be undergoing severestresses due to economic and environmental problems that may cause it to break down, “ orsufficiently weaken it so that a successful revolution can occur if thoughtful individuals can beconvinced that the future of modern industrial society will lead to ever deepening alienation andloss of individual autonomy as human beings are even more tightly integrated into an inhumanform of life .But "in order to gain enthusiastic support," an ideology must have a positive ideal as wellas a negative one; it must be for something as well as against something. The positive ideal thatKaczynski proposes is Nature. That is, wild nature; those aspects of the functioning of the Earthand its living things that are independent of human management and free of human interferenceand control. And with wild nature we include human nature, by which we mean those aspects ofthe functioning of the human individual that are not subject to regulation by organized society."
7In the 1971 essay, Kaczynski acknowledged that he was not suited to lead such arevolution himself. But he did take his own advice personally. He resigned from a tenure trackposition at Berkeley and moved to the wilds of Montana, where he built a simple cabin forhimself with no electricity or running water and lived as a hunter-gatherer, thereby recoveringhis own autonomy. But he did not finally abandon the rest of us to the system. His 1995manifesto was clearly intended to warn the world of the dehumanizing effects of present andfuture industrial society and to recruit support for revolutionary change that would mean junking"the whole stinking mess" and thereby salvaging human autonomy and dignity. In the course ofthat manifesto, he referred only once to the bombs he had sent that killed three people andwounded twenty-three. Like most contemporary terrorists, he justifies the campaign of bombs asa strategy for gaining media attention so as to get his message out:If we had never done anything violent and had submitted the present writings to apublisher, they probably would not have been accepted. If they had been accepted andpublished, they probably would not have attracted many readers. Even if thesewritings had had many readers, most of these readers would soon have forgotten whatthey had read as their minds were flooded by the mass of material to which the mediaexpose them. In order to get our message before the public with some chance ofmaking a lasting impression, we've had to kill people.And it worked - in its way. The New York Times and the Washington Post both agreed topublish the entire 35,000 word manifesto without altering a word, which is more press than anyof us is ever likely to get. And most revolutions claim more victims along the way than the
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