Rating: ****
Tags: Future, Society, Lang:en
Added: March 28, 2020
Modified: November 5, 2021
Summary
In 1995, Kaczynski mailed several letters to media outlets
outlining his goals and demanding that his 35,000-word essay
Industrial Society and Its Future (dubbed the Unabomber
Manifesto by the FBI)be printed verbatim by a major
newspaper. He stated that, if this demand was met, he would
"desist from terrorism".There was controversy as to whether
the essay should be published, but Attorney General Janet
Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh recommended its publication
out of concern for public safety and in hope that a reader
could identify the author. Bob Guccione of Penthouse
volunteered to publish it, but Kaczynski replied that
Penthouse was less "respectable" than the other publications.
He said that he would "reserve the right to plant one (and
only one) bomb intended to kill, after our manuscript has
been published". The New York Times and The Washington Post
both published the essay on September 19, 1995. **