July 26, 2002
This was really interesting to
This was really interesting to read -Excerpts From Unabomber's Manifesto (washingtonpost.com) Consider for example . . . freedom of the press. . . . The mass media are mostly under the control of large organizations that are integrated into the system. Anyone who has a little money can have something printed, or can distribute it on the Internet or in some such way, but what he has to say will be swamped by the vast volume of material put out by the media. . . . Take us (FC) for example. If we had never done anything violent and had submitted the present writings to a publisher, they probably would not have been accepted. If they had been accepted and published, they probably would not have attracted many readers, because it's more fun to watch the entertainment put out by the media than to read a sober essay. Even if these writings had had many readers, most of those readers would soon have forgotten what they had read as their minds were flooded by the mass of material to which the media expose them. In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we've had to kill people.
If he had just been peaceful and waited a couple of years, he could have started a blog.
Posted by Curt at July 26, 2002 11:41 PM