Controversial Turn: Industrial Society and its future commentary project begins!

The reflections I've been stuck into during the last few days, mostly revolving around human society and its future (they also led me to make the earlier post about overpopulation) brought me back to the time when I stumbled upon a very controversial essay which ended up changing most of my ideas and views about humanity. For a long time I've been unsure wheter to speak about it or not but after giving it some thought I figured out I definitely should on this blog as many of my ideas are actually inspired by it as well as a lot of my posts' content. This consists however in a very controversial turn for this blog because the essay I'm speaking of is Industrial Society and its future by Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber's manifesto. Yes, we're dealing with one of the most famous American terrorists and one of FBI's most wanted in the 80s who will moreover find on this blog a place to have his ideas published.

The fact is, no matter how controversial the author's nature and no matter how much I can despise terrorism and murder, I was surprised since the very beginning. Without justifying the author's actions I thereby set my prejudices aside and kept reading on. In the end the manifesto struck me with some very unique observations, concepts and conclusions as well as the general sociopolitical ideal behind it. Many initially unexplainable/unclear factors of human behavior became clearer to me after reading Industrial Society and its future which brought me to the need of sharing it, along with my personal thoughts/comments, with the others. Willing or not.

Since the manifesto is pretty long, I'll break it down into parts and comment on each one separately. This should also make it easier to read for the viewers. Unfortunately, this also comes with 2 consequences: the first one is that while busy on the manifesto it is likely I won't have much time for posts about other topics anymore, hence the blog's attention will remain almost completely focused on the manifesto for some time. The second one is that comments will be disabled for the whole duration of the project. Sorry guys, I know it's a low blow. It's just that I've seen way too many discussions turn into useless flame wars just because of the author's radical nature. You may or may not agree with this, but I've made my decision.