This text serves as the manifesto of it’s writer, Ted Kaczynski: also known as the unabomber. This manifesto describes Kaczynski’s rage against the industrial age and what has been brought up along with it. The text itself is very well written and although some of the ideas inside are very harmful, Kaczynski wrote this intellectually. He started out as a professor in mathematics and with the rise of new technology slowly began to become the unabomber. The unabomber sent bombs through the mailing service, mainly to professors at universities. He killed 3 people and injured around 23. Kaczynski soon after lived in the wild in a cabin where he likely wrote this manifesto. He was arrested after his brother noticed his writing in a newspaper and Kaczynski is still in prison today. The text opposes the use of technology, stating that it causes more harm than good and that it will lead to people suffering, which in some ways with how people use their phones today is very accurate. Technology seems to represent the rise of power in individuals and their control over other people’s lives, which is an important theme in this text. In some ways this text is very similar to the Anarchist’s Cookbook, such as the idea that power should be rejected; however, unlike the Anarchist’s Cookbook this text refuses the use of new technology. Not only this, but this text also refuses some new ways of thinking that were brought up at this time. Kaczynski is very against the idea of leftists and some of their more liberal ideas. He states that leftists’ goal when starting movements is to assimilate others into their own culture and destroy the other’s culture and how leftists blindly follow power. He also describes how many of the undesirable characteristics of society, such as depression, can be seen through the left, likely reflecting his hatred towards the industrialization of America. Kaczynski further states that leftists hate the strong and that they are against much of what America stands for. He writes about his hatred with homophobic people, also illustrating his hate of change created by society. Kaczynski himself describes his desires for living out in the wild in a natural setting. Kaczynski is not stating that traditional values are good, in fact he mentions in the text how conservatives are foolish. He instead seems to be either advocating for the world to stay the exact same way or to let nature take it’s course and have little interaction with it. Kaczynski states that the technological advancements created by innovators, big companies, governments, and scientists are all corrupt due to their purpose not being the well being of others but instead for the pursuit of power or because power is being forced upon them. Some of this I think is somewhat accurate because with power there seems to come some sort of corruption. The abusing of this power ends up harming society in so many ways, but I am not sure there is any true way for one person to not have some kind of power over another. Kaczynski wrote this not just from his own ideas, but the ideas he shares have come from many people before him. He and so many before him have wrote about societal failings and possible solutions to help fix them in some way. Long distance apart living families, phone addictions, and the decay of nature, all products of the increasingly changing America, and other problems are almost predicted in this text. One other thing I found interesting about this text is how he views anthropologists. He finds that the classification and correction of terms used does not make much sense and should stop. The idea of anthropologists not comparing cultures as much and looking at cultures through their own perspective, cultural relativity, is seen as wrong to Kaczynski in this text. It seems like what Kaczynski is actually afraid of is change. He seems to prefer what he already knows, like most of us, and purposefully tries to isolate himself from others and the changing world. I am not sure if this could be why he sent the bombs, but it would be interesting to look into.