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Theodore Kaczynski, surnommé « Unabomber », né le 22 mai 1942 à Chicago, dans l'Illinois , est un terroriste américain, mathématicien de formation, militant écologiste et néo-luddite.

Il a fait l'objet de la chasse à l'homme la plus coûteuse de l'histoire du FBI, ayant aspiré, deux décennies durant, à devenir le « parfait tueur anonyme ». Il est en même temps l'auteur de plusieurs textes et ouvrages.

Il s'est battu, selon lui, contre les dangers inhérents à la direction prise par le progrès dans une société industrielle et une civilisation technologique, une société qui s'éloigne de l'humanité et de la liberté humaine pour la majorité sinon pour la totalité de la population. Après des études et une courte carrière de professeur de mathématiques, il décide de se retirer dans la nature, et convainc son frère de prendre la même direction. À la suite de la disparition d'un lieu naturel où il se rendait régulièrement, il s'engage dans une campagne d'envoi de colis piégés de manière artisanale à diverses personnes construisant ou défendant la société technologique. Cette campagne d'attentats dura dix-huit ans, faisant trois morts et 23 blessés avec 16 bombes envoyées.

Avant que son identité ne fût connue, le FBI se référait à lui comme UNABOM . Plusieurs variantes de ce surnom furent utilisées par les médias : Unabomer, Unabomber et UniBomer. Wikipedia  

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“Le divertissement procure à l'homme moderne une évasion indispensable; quand il est absorbé par la télévision, les vidéos, etc., il peut oublier le stress, l'anxiété, la frustration, l'insatisfaction. Quand ils ne travaillaient pas, les primitifs restaient tranquillement assis pendant des heures à ne rien faire, parce qu'ils étaient en paix avec eux-mêmes et avec leur monde. Mais la plupart des modernes ont besoin d'être constamment occupés ou divertis, faute de quoi ils « s'emmerdent », c'est-à-dire qu'ils deviennent agités, anxieux, irritables.”

Theodore Kaczynski

La société industrielle et son avenir, 1995

faute , oubli , hommes , monde

“La liberté signifie la maîtrise – en tant qu'individu ou membre d'un groupe restreint – des questions vitales de sa propre existence : la nourriture, l'habillement, l'habitat et la défense contre toute menace éventuelle. Être libre signifie avoir du pouvoir; non pas celui de dominer les autres, mais celui de dominer ses conditions de vie.”

Theodore Kaczynski

La société industrielle et son avenir, 1995

liberté , vie , nourriture , Question

Theodore Kaczynski: Citations en anglais

“The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called "democratic" structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a "democratic" system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.”

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"Why The System Is Tough", point 4
Hit Where It Hurts (2002)

“In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.”

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Theodore Kaczynski livre Industrial Society and Its Future

"Surrogate Activities", item 40
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

“Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe they are enough to account for the extent of the problems that are seen today.”

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"Sources Of Social Problems", item 53
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

“It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness.”

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"The Nature of Freedom", item 94
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

“A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.”

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"Disruption Of The Power Process In Modern Society", item 64
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

“The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.”

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"Restriction on Freedom is Unavoidable in Industrial Society", item 119
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

“People … can think of nothing better to do than to continue attacking particular evils while vaguely hoping that their work will somehow help to solve the overall problem of technology. In reality their work is counterproductive, because it distracts attention from the technological system itself as the underlying source of the evils and leads people to focus instead on problems of limited significance that moreover cannot be permanently solved while the technological system continues to exist.”

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Source: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2016), p. 1

“The technophiles are taking us all on an utterly reckless ride into the unknown. Many people understand something of what technological progress is doing to us yet take a passive attitude toward it because they think it is inevitable. But we (FC) don't think it is inevitable. We think it can be stopped, and we will give here some indications of how to go about stopping it.”

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"Strategy", item 180
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

“To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.”

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"Control of Human Behavior", item 160
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

“There are two kinds of morality—the kind of morality that one imposes on oneself and the kind of morality that one imposes on others.”

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For the first kind of morality, that is, for self-restraint, I have the greatest respect. The second kind of morality I do not respect except when it constitutes self-defense. (For example, when women say that rape and wife-beating are immoral, that is self-defense.) I have noticed that the people who try hardest to impose moral code on others (not in self-defense) are often the least careful to abide by that moral code themselves.
"Morality and Revolution"
The Road to Revolution (2008)

“And then there are unthinking, animal types who seem to be satisfied with a purely physical sense of power”

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the good combat soldier, who gets his sense of power by developing fighting skills that he is quite content to use in blind obedience to his superiors
"Autonomy", paragraph 43
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

“It seems amazing that those who advocate energy conservation haven't noticed what happens: As soon as some energy is freed up by conservation, the technological world-system gobbles it up and demands more. No matter how much energy is provided, the system always expands rapidly until it is using all available energy, and then it demands still more.”

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Source: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015), p. 56

“As technology progresses and globalization grows more pervasive, the world-system becomes ever more complex and more tightly coupled, so that a catastrophic breakdown has to be expected sooner or later.”

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Source: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015), p. 49

“Where (as today) problems of transportation and communication do not constitute effective limitations on the size of the geographical regions over which self-propagating systems operate, natural selection tends to create a world in which power is mostly concentrated in the possession of a relatively small number of global self-propagating systems.”

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Source: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015), p. 47

“In the short term, natural selection favors self-propagating systems that pursue their own short-term advantage with little or no regard for long-term consequences.”

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Source: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How (2015), p. 44

“Thus it is clear that the human race has at best a very limited capacity for solving even relatively straightforward social problems. How then is it going to solve the far more difficult and subtle problem of reconciling freedom with technology?”

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"Simpler Social Problems Have Proved Intractable", paragraph 138
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

“A further reason why industrial society cannot be reformed in favor of freedom is that modern technology is a unified system in which all parts are dependent on one another. You can’t get rid of the "bad" parts of technology and retain only the "good" parts.”

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The ‘Bad’ Parts of Technology Cannot Be Separated From the ‘Good’ Parts, paragraph 121
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

“The system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs. Instead, it is human behavior that has to be modified to fit the needs of the system.”

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"Restriction on Freedom is Unavoidable in Industrial Society", paragraph 119
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

“People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.”

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"Some Principles of History", paragraph 106
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

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