Industrial Society and Its Future is a text written by Ted Kaczynski, also known as the “Unabomber”. This reading is about how Ted believes that the industrial revolution is a harmful process of natural destruction, and that it suppresses human freedom and self-esteem. He blames the leftists for the industrial revolution and he is anti-left because they work to preserve the industrial system. He wanted to see living in an industrial society get so bad that the hardships can only be blamed on the industrial revolution.
Kaczynski was considered to be “America’s most academic terrorist” because of his education at Harvard and the University of Michigan. He built a one room cabin in the woods of Montana and created bombs. Ted killed three people between 1978 and 1995 by sending bombs through the mail. He believed that killing people was the only way to get his message across. This text was originally published in the Washington Post, which caused him to get caught because his brother identified him and reported it to the FBI.
This text inspired an array of anti-tech radical groups. One Mexican terrorist group, called ITS, picked up where Kaczynski left off and began to send bombs to scientists in April of 2011. This group has been blamed for attacks in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Greece. The banning of this text is definitely something that needed to be done, but it also caused a lot of harm to many different people. It also inspired many people in very wrong ways and caused them to do many violent and harmful things.