I started out my journey by reading an article titled “The Unabomber Was Right.” The Unabomber is a man who believed that technological civilizations were bad and wanted to tear them down. He was pushed to this opinion when he was living in a cabin in the woods with no power and electricity. The Unabomber had a favorite place he visited within the woods. This place was a little body of water that calmed him and one day when he went to visit there was a big road there instead. He started bombing to gain notoriety for his manifesto on technological civilizations. I asked what details specifically did this manifesto contain and I began to realize the general ideas which all resulted in evidently slowing down technological civilizations till they were weak and then getting rid of them before the grew back up again. I then began to think if this was even possible. So much of the world is ran on technology and it makes things simpler and less time consuming. When searching I realized that in order for the Unabomber to reach his dream he would need a strong argument to convince the majority to follow his manifesto. This is when I stumble on an article that stated 70% of Americans fear Robots taking over in the future. If these people fear that this may happen then the Unabomber could use this as leverage to convince people that one day technology may hurt us even more than it is now. While reading this article I thought about the movie iRobot. This movie stars Will Smith as a detective who is trying to solve a murder that may have been committed by a robot. If the world ever gets to how that movie is then it would be quite the scary site.
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Interesting chain of thought. Keep it going until you arrive at a question, problem or topic to write about. Be willing to get even more creative about your reading. See if you can find other people who have voiced some of the criticisms of society that Kaczynski did.
From your post, it’s hard for me to see exactly what reading you’re doing. I could really use article titles and authors, brief overviews, quotes, links…, all the things readers need when a writer is integrating his ideas with those of others.