The Unabomber Manifesto as published in the September 19th Washington Post Special Supplement is available in a slightly HTML-ized version at
The Unabomber's whole argument about "industrial-technological society must continually remove freedoms" and his arguments about the motives of scientists and technologists, are false by existence of modern cryptography and the cypherpunks. The Unabomber's whole argument rests on his lack of imagination. Almost all his arguments about large scalee technology were counterargued years ago on the Extropian's list. The errors in his essay are numerous, for instance, he uses as argument, that medical progress (if that were the only kind of technology) would be bad in and of itself. As an example, he uses diabetes which, if treated, allows the diseased to live longer and pass on their genes. But most forms of diabetes happen at adult onset longer after the individual would have reproduced anyway. His arguments against leftists, while partially correct, are poorly constructed and flawed too. All and all, it wasn't worth the 3 deaths and 17 years of bombings to get tripe like this published. The Unabomber should have found a ghostwriter friend with a degree in philosophy and got him/her to write and publish it. Anyway, the best way to sum up the Unabomber's fantasy world is that people in the past had high self-esteem, they were simple and happy, and didn't have to climb the corporate ladder. Too bad he didn't read any anthropological studies first. -Ray