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Was the Unabomber Right All Along?
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Above is this week’s False Flag Weekly News with John Carter of Postcards from Barsoom. It opens with a conversation about the late Ted Kaczynski’s ideas. Below is an abridged, lightly-edited transcript of a longer conversation with America’s #1 Kaczynski expert, David Skrbina, recorded in 2018.
David Skrbina: Was the Unabomber Right All Along?
Kevin Barrett: I'm bringing on a favorite regular guest, Professor David Skrbina of the University of Michigan at Dearborn. He is an expert on the philosophy of technology, specifically the metaphysics of technology, and he's written a book with that title. He is also an expert on panpsychism, the philosophy that says that everything in the universe has a degree of consciousness. And he has edited the Unabomber that is Ted Kaczynski's post-prison book, Technological Slavery, which wasn't the title that Kaczynski wanted, but he was willing to live with it. Anyway, let's get to it. Oh, and I almost forgot about the the The Jesus Hoax: another fascinating conspiracy theory there. And of all his work, that's the only one that I don't really buy into. But the rest of it, I find hard to refute. So anyway, welcome, David Skrbina. How are you doing?
David Skrbina: Hey, great, thanks, Kevin. I guess liking three out of four is not too bad.
Kevin Barrett: You're doing pretty well. I dismiss an awful lot of what I hear as BS, and that's not what I do to most of what I hear from you. And even The Jesus Hoax is absolutely worth considering and reading and thinking about. So, where should we start? The most recent one that I looked at was Ted Kaczynski's book Technological Slavery. I think you have a point when you say in your introduction that Ted Kaczynski — whatever you think about his choice of people that he went around murdering, and I'm not particularly a fan of that — but whatever you may think about some of his work and his deeds, his writing is very much worth considering. And nobody in the media and the intelligentsia seems willing to admit that.
David Skrbina: That's very true. He's a very logical, intelligent guy. He's very well read. He knows what he's saying. He makes very clear and lucid points. I think anybody who's read the manifesto has an idea of how logically he can think. He has some really compelling ideas. They're not entirely original ideas, but that's okay. There's a pretty good history of critiques of the technological system. And Kaczynski is one of the latest ones and he's one of the harshest ones. But that's okay. He justifies his position. He takes a very strong line. And truthfully, there's a lot to be said for his argument.
Kevin Barrett: Right. And for people who haven't read it — though I would think a high percentage of my listeners probably have at some point read the so called Unabomber Manifesto, which (just to refresh people's memories) was published in The Washington Post and New York Times back in the 90s. And it was actually his brother seeing the publication of his manifesto and saying, "Hey, I think I think that's my brother that wrote that", and then getting in touch with the FBI, that led to his being arrested, charged and railroaded in a sham trial — that absolutely disgusting trial in which he was not given the chance to defend himself the way he wanted to. But anyway, the manifesto argues that we're not suited to the level of technology that we have now, that technology is out of control and making our lives miserable. It's only going to get worse. And