Comment by red-iron-pine

3 years ago

We had to read this in college, in a lit course on "dangerous discussions".

Marx, Mein Kampf, SNCC manifestos, The Turner Diaries, chunks of the Koran and the Bible, a short look at Juche, some Ding Xiaoping Thought, etc.

And among others, the Unibomber Manifesto. The professor had printouts that he gave to us so that we didn't have to search for it. True for a lot of the documents, actually.

It felt uncomfortably prescient then, and more so now. He makes a lot of good points but doesn't tie them together well, IMO, and his conclusion is kind of weak. Still, his points sting when you look at how we're sliding to a cyberpunk future that we can all see coming but won't make changes to prevent.