... , I attempt to place Kaczynski among other terrorists, and I hope to ferret out a few of the many philosophical influences on him. How different is his thinking, for instance, from that of Henry David Thoreau? Less than we might suppose, I will suggest. "A Thoreau with bloodstained hands" is perhaps not the oxymoron we initially take it to be. Can a man be called evil who ... 't long remain so, the Unabomber argues; it reshapes society and we have little choice but to accept it. The same is true of computers and the Internet; few indeed can afford to hold out against using a computer or t...

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... life. Emerson furthers this notion by advocating the shrugging off of the bounds of conformity and adopting a lifestyle dictated not by society but by one's own inherent sense of morality. Henry David Thoreau, the intellectual heir to Emerson's transcendental throne, carries on in this vein in his essay, "Civil Disobedience." Thoreau uses the Transcendentalist philosophy to attack the state from an ... severe personal, societal, and humanitarian consequences that occur when their philosophy is applied to the lower and middle class majority demonstrate this deficiency. The middle and low...

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