Forty years before Ted Kaczynski wrote his manifesto, Ellul more fully explored the same ideas.
The reasons Kaczynski has staying power, particularly in anarchist movements, aren't flattering: spectacle, violence, and his text is much shorter.
Forty years before Ted Kaczynski wrote his manifesto, Ellul more fully explored the same ideas.
The reasons Kaczynski has staying power, particularly in anarchist movements, aren't flattering: spectacle, violence, and his text is much shorter.
This is kind of important. Right now, Reddit is chock full of people talking about how his philosophy was good even if his methods were bad.
But it's not just that you didn't need murder to get to his philosophy, you didn't actually need him to get to his philosophy.