In the meanwhile, the most important passages are below. Introduction. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life expectancy of those of us who live in advanced countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering in the Third World to physical suffering as well and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in advanced countries. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society. The problems with leftists. When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him or about groups with whom he identifies we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self esteem. This tendency is pronounced among minority rights activists, whether or not they belong to the minority groups whose rights they defend. They are hypersensitive about the words used to designate minorities and about anything that is said concerning minorities. They seem almost paranoid about anything that might suggest that any primitive culture is inferior to our own. Those who are most sensitive about politically incorrect terminology are not the average black ghetto dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any oppressed group but come from privileged strata of society. Political correctness has its stronghold among university professors, who have secure employment with comfortable salaries, and the majority of whom are heterosexual white males from middle to upper middle class families. Feminists are desperately anxious to prove that women are as strong and as capable as men. Clearly they are nagged by a fear that women may NOT be as strong and as capable as men. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out and often greatly exaggerates these faults where they appear in Western civilization. He wants society to solve everyones problems for them, satisfy everyones needs for them, take care of them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser. Area Monitoring Network Software Storage Cases here. Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. I/815SLaTwiTL._SX522_.jpg' alt='Bright Starts Activity Gym Sweet Safari Branches' title='Bright Starts Activity Gym Sweet Safari Branches' />Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individuals ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is inferior it is not his fault, but societys, because he has not been brought up properly. Helping black people is not their real goal. Instead, race problems serve as an excuse for them to express their own hostility and frustrated need for power. In doing so they actually harm black people, because the activists hostile attitude toward the white majority tends to intensify race hatred. Suppose you asked leftists to make a list of ALL the things that were wrong with society, and then suppose you instituted EVERY social change that they demanded. It is safe to say that within a couple of years the majority of leftists would find something new to complain about, some new social evil to correct because, once again, the leftist is motivated less by distress at societys ills than by the need to satisfy his drive for power by imposing his solutions on society. Leftism is collectivist it seeks to bind together the entire world both nature and the human race into a unified whole. But this implies management of nature and of human life by organized society, and it requires advanced technology. You cant have a united world without rapid transportation and communication, you cant make all people love one another without sophisticated psychological techniques, you cant have a planned society without the necessary technological base. Its important to note that he hated leftists enough that he mailed bombs to them, killing three. The Power Process. Kaczynski describes the power process as achieving fulfillment by setting meaningful goals and then having the agency and autonomy to accomplish them. The problem with modern society, he argues, is that there are so many barriers to your own agency, ranging from leftist speech policies to overreaching governmental influence in your personal life, that we are not unencumbered to pursue simple tasks that improve our lives. A hunter gatherer in the past could kill his dinner, not only sating his hunger but also feeling pride for catching his meal, but the modern man cannot do the same thing without having to deal with multiple government agencies concerning the legality of his hunting and gun ownership status while fending off animal rights activists and other liberals who want to levy economic violence against him for wanting to kill an animal. The result of ditching hunter gatherer lifestyles is that were all pursuing surrogate activities that have no relation to our survival. Becoming a bodybuilder, international playboy, or dedicated hobbyist of some sort are surrogate activities that, had we had urgent survival needs, we would not pursue. Even my own passion, writing, is a surrogate activity.