Call out for volunteers to help finish editing Truth Versus Lies by Ted Kaczynski

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Ishkah
Call out for volunteers to help finish editing Truth Versus Lies by Ted Kaczynski

Truth versus Lies is a book that Ted Kaczynski finished writing soon after his sentencing. The book never went into print, but we have photocopies of the draft in 2 parts:
https://b-ok.cc/book/11338056/50d5c4
https://b-ok.cc/book/11338055/8db7fc

Ted goes over tons of court documents and magazine articles to attempt to correct the record on the story of his life.

If someone has a perfect word document, is an email or letter away and is up for releasing it soon after we finish I’d be so annoyed haha. But, I think it’s worth the risk as they likely would have put it online already if they really wanted to.

If you’d like to help make error corrections, click the request access button in the top right corner or send your gmail address to theosladehome@gmail.com. It just requires having the pdf open on one side of the screen whilst error correcting this document on the other side. And if we got any trolls it’s easy enough to see what edits were made, boot them and restore previous versions. Finally, press Ctrl+F and type #### to see where I’m up to so far.

Once finished we can do a bunch of things like:

* Make a bunch of free formats available like epub, pdf & word.

* Put it on amazon so hard copies can be printed and delivered for cheap.

* I’d like to include a thorough critique of Kaczynski's philosophy in a second forward for the version I put out there.

* At the same time as editing this I’d like to be copying over memories for a shorter biography drawing from this book, diary entries and other writing. I may even send the 2 books to Kaczynski to encourage him to finish filling in key moments to turn it into an autobiography.

It's a hobby project for those researchers similarly fascinated by his life and wanting to make the writing easier to sort and skim through. I'm a strong critique of anti-tech people in general:

lumpy (not verified)
fascinating reading! the

fascinating reading! the "fascist creep" is a real rabbithole, even tho certain snake oil salespeople would abuse the concepts for fearmongering. anyone with a sincere interest in revolutionary thought would be making a fatal mistake by dismissing how thirsty and seductive the blood gods can be, especially when you're very sexually repressed I guess? i wonder if Ted ever explored his queerness in prison? urge to kill fading ... fading ...

anon (not verified)
Can you "explore" anything

Can you "explore" anything else than "queerness" with others while in a supermax prison, you slimebag?

lumpy (not verified)
...sure? plenty of hours in

...sure? plenty of hours in the day!

just always thought it was a shame that Ted got done so dirty by that homophobic therapist he tried to come out to!

anon (not verified)
Hey brah, sexually suppressed

Hey brah, sexually suppressed Catholics, even EX-Catholics, DON'T come out, mmmk.

anon (not verified)
I said "with others", Lumpy.

I said "with others", Lumpy.

And you appear to be making some pretty sinister joke on prisoners, as -just so you now- prisons are sexually segregated in the US. Meaning that in most cases (unless there's "sex visits" from outside people, which is unlikely to be allowed in supermax prison) the only intercourse being allowed will be same-sex.

So, like... yeah, some guy may "explore" his "queerness" in a supermax, but it's not like he's got any other options.

lumpy (not verified)
what's wrong with your

what's wrong with your reading comprehension? or are you assuming there's something wrong with queerness?

...wtf is wrong with you?

anon (not verified)
Theo vs evil ITS

'Theo: Individualists Tending to the Wild (In Spanish: Individualistas Tendiendo a lo Salvaje, ITS) is a self-defined eco-extremist group that emerged in Mexico in 2011, whose members were originally part of the green & insurrectionary left-anarchist milieus who likely grew up on earth first monkey-wrenching manuals from the 80s. Upon reading the unabomber's manifesto they stopped committing arsons aimed at sabotaging evil companies and instead started to desire to have the wider effect of terrorizing people through fear of injury or death on the simple principle of being against technology and wanting to regress to hunter-gatherer societies:'

Ted is acknowledged in the very first ITS communique. ITS never 'committ[ed] arsons aimed at sabotaging evil companies', nor have they ever stated a desire to 'regress to hunter-gatherer societies.' You need to stop making shit up and take the time to actually know what you're writing about before undertaking a project like this.

Ishkah
Heya, can a mod delete the

Heya, can a mod delete the google doc link please? The project is all wrapped up, but I keep getting email requests to edit the google doc.

Here's the most complete version: https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-truth-versus-lies-v...

anon (not verified)
Deleted the link.

Deleted the link.

-thecollective_1.8

Ishkah
Much appreciated.

Much appreciated.

lumpy (not verified)
this is amazing stuff! it's

this is amazing stuff! it's like getting to sit for hours and hours with the old dead crank himself, unloading all his pettiest, most exquisite venom! all the tiny details of family drama, ted trying to remember the exact moment when he started hating his parents at like, age 10?! who the fuck would ever care about all this except weirdos like me!

beautiful work! i will use this document to checkmate every edgelord who crosses my path from now until i die! bless your black heart

Ishkah
No worries :), for an even

No worries :), for an even weirder and sadder document on Ted's life you should check out Ted's 1979 autobiography, which I'll quote below.

If you can remember where you got the idea Ted visited a homophobic therapist I'd be super curious. I think likely you made a mistake, but I'd be curious how you perceive you made this mistake, as similar mistakes are made from the other direction by the far-right, imagining that Ted had gender confusion after lectures from liberal professors.

"
... During my 4th year at Michigan I stayed in a rooming house...supposedly a men's rooming house...[a couple] had the room next to mine. I didn't realize the situation until one evening I heard them screwing. They certainly made plenty of noise about it. I suppose the bitch was squealing so loud because she found it sexually exciting to advertise to everyone what she was doing. Anyhow, it made me very angry, for these reasons: It roused my sexual feelings, which was unpleasant because I had no means of gratifying them in a satisfactory way, and this sexual frustration distracted me from my thesis work. Moreover, it roused my jealousy, especially since this couple seemed to be flaunting their sexual activities by being so unabashedly noisy ...

... Anyhow, during the stated period, I was constantly having sexual fantasies of myself as a woman. When the excitement got too intense, I would masturbate, but within a few minutes after orgasm I would get excited again. During those few minutes after orgasm I would feel intense revulsion. I would feel that death would be a better fate than having a sex-change operation.

But death was all I had to look forward to. As explained above, I had no hope for anything. Aside from the unwholesome pleasure of constant sexual excitement, everything seemed like a black, dismal dead-end. Thus it is not surprising that I would promptly get sexually excited again ...

... When I got back to the U. of Michigan, I made an appointment to see one of their psychiatric counselors. You may be sure that my purpose in doing this was emphatically NOT to be 'cured' or 'treated' or have my mind altered or meddled with in any way ... I knew that you can't just purchase a sex-change operation by walking into the surgeon's office and plunking down your money. You first have to be examined by psychiatrists who decide such an operation would be "good" for you. Anyhow, I didn't know where to go for such an operation. I knew that if I frankly revealed myself to the psychiatrist, he would not decide that such an operation would be good for me, because certainly I was not suited to a feminine role in life - my motive was exclusively erotic. But I hoped that, by putting on an act, I could con the psychiatrists into thinking me able for a feminine role, so that they would help me to obtain a sex-change operation. I seem to be pretty good at concealing my feelings and playing a role before other people, so it's possible I might have been able to fool the psychiatrists ...

... However, as the time approached for the appointment, I felt a certain revulsion setting in. While I was sitting in the waiting room I turned completely against the idea of the operation. So when I went in to see the doctor, I just gave him a bullshit story about being depressed about the possibility of being drafted...
"

-- https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-ted-kaczynski-s-197...

In summary:

"
Alone in his room, he was driven crazy by the sounds of the couple next door making love. Finally—and this is what broke my heart—Kaczynski decided to convince a psychiatrist to allow him to undergo the surgery and chemical treatments he thought would transform him into a woman, not because he was transgender, but because, as a woman, he might wrap his arms around himself and be held by someone female.
"

-- https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/eileen-pollack-from-the-unabomber...

anon (not verified)
As usual with ID politicians

As usual with ID politicians you might be overrating the gender issue. Teddy K was just one of those rare victims of society who get to turn the sickness against its source, by becoming a violent aggressor.

lumpy (not verified)
ohhh! ive heard a few

ohhh! ive heard a few different tellings of the story that might have been apocryphal?

that he tried telling the therapist and they were unsupportive?

anyway, Ted's version sounds legit

anon (not verified)
Lumpy, never sincerely engage

Lumpy, never sincerely engage with scums that keep wringing their hands against "ID politicians" "SJWs" "woke" (and all the variations) like they are Satanic words out to hypnotize and destroy their reactionary perspective on how their utopic White societies should be.

lumpy (not verified)
missed my click, i'm

missed my click, i'm responding to ishkah

also, you familiar with my work here? trolling the trolls for many years?

anon (not verified)
Reading through some of this,

Reading through some of this,,,,,the dude was a drama queen!

anon (not verified)
Kaczynski was one miserable

Kaczynski was one miserable alienated weirdo, so extreme in this that you could not make him up in any work of believable fiction.

It sounds juvenile to say that his ideas were stupid, but they were. And this speaks volumes about the ever more berserk character of a society that not only generates a poor fool like him, but, even more absurdly, generates his admirers.

lumpy (not verified)
ikr?! every time i go

ikr?! every time i go anywhere near green anarchy gatherings to this day, i encounter this early 2000s, zerzan strain of ... interest in TK? and it's often almost completely uncritical?

i don't know how ppl got so fascinated without noticing how dumpsterfire-fucked the whole situation was? like ... how to miss such a large, exploding forest for a couple of trees. the guy had a critique which was occasionally not wrong, critique is the easy part by far?

David Anarchborough (not verified)
It's possible he was a born

It's possible he was a born 'savant', who are humans who seem incredibly stupid but are infact gifted eccentric geniuses who have no other choice but to be the aloof outcastes they inevitably become,,,he could not relate to the callous insensitivity in others and chose isolation from the incessent trivial pursuits of his common human herd.
Just as the man-eating tiger with the injured leg turns to running down slower and easier human prey, Ted, with his injured ego, began stalking and attacking the placid academic former associates whose whereabouts he knew, whilst they were motionless and seated, and unleashed a cunning and monstrous act of blood lust upon them.

anon (not verified)
He was a hyper-alienated

He was a hyper-alienated right-wing psycho.

anon (not verified)
Could you be more explicit in

Could you be more explicit in your description like David's was about Ted?

anon (not verified)
AnoTHer nORtherN eUroPean

AnoTHer nORtherN eUroPean sExUallY sUpprEssed CatHoliC reTArd blOwiNg inNOcenT pEople Up!!

anon (not verified)
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