Ted Kaczynski’s Letter to Mr. K.

March 16, 2018

Dear Mr. K.:

To answer your questions:

If you find after reading the books that you would like to assist us in building an anti-tech movement, and if you are willing to put a great deal of time & effort into the work, then I invite you to write me again. We need young people like you!

One last point before I close: The “primitive” societies that you mention in the next-to-last paragraph of your letter are not normally considered primitive--not by a long, long way. To be considered “primitive”, a society must at a minimum satisfy the following requirements: It must have no form of writing; no cities; no social organization above the level of the tribe. And “crime rate” here refers to crime as defined by the norms of the society in question. E.g., if the society in question does not consider it a crime for people to fight each other with deadly weapons, then such fighting (even if it has fatal results) is not included in the crime rate as I’m using the term. It would be silly to try to apply a concept of “crime” that is suitable for one kind of society to another society of a totally different kind. Lastly, my remark about crime rates was meant to apply only to societies whos social structure has not been radically disrupted by the intrusion of modern civilization. Once such disruption has occurred, traditional norms usually disintergrate to such an extent that the concept of “crime” becomes almost meaningless.

True, even if the term “crime” is understood as in the preceding paragraph, my remark about crime rates in many (notice that I did not say all) primitive societies possibly might be open to dispute.

Yours
Ted Kaczynski

P.S. Please note my correct address (on the envelope). — TJK


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{1} I won’t mention his name because I think he is still a federal inmate, and federal inmates are not allowed to mention the names of other federal inmates in their correspondence. Actually, I’m surprised that your letter was allowed to reach me, given that you did mention this individual.