Ted Kaczynski & the Modification of Humanity

Thirty years ago today, on 3^rd April 1996, one of the longest and most expensive FBI investigations in history ended with the capture and arrest of Ted Kaczynski, the “Unabomber”. In an isolated cabin in Montana, alongside an unkempt and skinny Kaczynski, agents discovered 40000 handwritten journal pages, bomb components, and one live bomb ready for use.

A Harvard educated mathematician described by the FBI as a “twisted genius” Kaczynski had seemingly outwitted investigators for 17 years, killing 3 people, and injuring over 20 more. Ironically, it was the release of his message on a wide scale that eventually led to his arrest.

In 1995, Kaczynski sent his 35000-word manifesto “Industrial Society and Its Future”, to the New York Times and the Washington Post, demanding publication, or else… On the advice of the attorney general and the director of the FBI, the manifesto was published by the Post as an 8-page supplement. The publication sold out in record time with thousands of people lining up at newsagent stands to get a copy but leaving empty handed.

The main message of the Unabomber’s manifesto is simply this: “The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race”.

On June 10^th, 2023, following the death of Ted Kaczynski, tech mogul and alleged wealthiest person in the world, Elon Musk, tweeted, “He might not be wrong”. The irony of this is glaring; when Kaczynski penned his manifesto in 1995, he warned that the continued development of technology will worsen the situation, and that new technologies would inflict physical and psychological suffering upon mankind, causing social disruption, and devastating environmental changes. “The Elon Musk Effect” where a single comment from one man can cause immediate and wide fluctuations in crypto currency, or sizable shifts in the stock market is exactly the kind of technological advancement that Kaczynski warned of. Considering Kaczynski’s portentous writings, it is almost unthinkable that one man (Musk) could hold so much power… and yet this man is also, to an extent, in agreement with, and a sympathiser of, Kaczynski’s fatal clarion call. Such are the double-binds of our time.

This doublethink quandary, first presented in George Orwell’s prophetic 1984, and expanded in 1956 by anthropologist Gregory Bateson and his colleagues in their paper, “Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia”, was not lost on Kaczynski who articulated in his manifesto:

“The moral code of our society is so demanding that no one can think, feel and act in a completely moral way.”

And

“The system HAS TO force people to behave in ways that are increasingly remote from the natural pattern of human behaviour”.

One of the most interesting aspects of Kaczynski is his time spent as an undergraduate at Harvard University, where he and other students were covertly experimented on in CIA mind control operations. The unsuspecting students were encouraged to share their innermost thoughts, desires and dreams, only to be systematically ridiculed, taunted and tormented by what they had shared. Their reactions to the trauma were then recorded and played back to them on a loop. The purpose of these experiments was to break the psyche and take control of the student’s mind.

Though Kaczynski maintained that his later actions were not because of the experiments at Harvard, his manifesto reveals that he was all too aware of the need for control of the populace by the pundits of power. He states,

Societies have been able to push people only up to certain limits. When the limit of human endurance has been passed, things start going wrong: rebellion, or crime, or corruption, or evasion of work, or depression and other mental problems, or an elevated death rate, or a declining birth rate or something else, so that either the society breaks down, or its functioning becomes too inefficient and it is (quickly or gradually, through conquest, attrition or evolution) replaced by some more efficient form of society… Thus, human nature has in the past put certain limits on the development of societies. People could be pushed only so far and no farther. But today this may be changing, because modern technology is developing ways of modifying human beings.

One of the main executors of the experiments was Henry Murray, a prominent Harvard psychologist and friend of Carl Jung; Murray helped bring Jung to Harvard for an honorary degree in 1936. While there is no direct evidence that Jung himself was involved in any MK operations, his WWII connection with Allen Dulles who ran the intelligence operations in Switzerland is well documented. It was Allen Dulles, as CIA Director who approved and authorized the inception of Project MK Ultra on April 13^th, 1953. Dulles initiated this programme to develop mind control drugs, and behaviour modification. It has also been reported that as Agent 488, Jung provided psychological analysis of Nazi leaders including Hitler.

Henry Murray was a longtime lover and collaborator of Christiana Morgan, a gifted woman who mined the depths of her own unconscious, bringing back valuable treasures from the depths of the feminine psyche. The relationship between her and Murray was not only validated but actively encouraged by Jung, who persuaded Morgan to contribute to society by “completing” Murray. While her own work was used unscrupulously by Jung in his “Visions Seminars’, Morgan provided creative feminine inspiration for both men as a super anima, muse and Soror Mystica figure. Of the work that she produced and sent to Jung after her time with him as an analysand, Jung says,

“Your material is really a rare beauty and an almost unique case in its completeness and accuracy of vision, far more so than expected, when we were personally dealing with it.”

In her biography of Christiana Morgan, Claire Douglas writes that “Her [Christiana’s] impulse told her that Harry [Henry] was a snake in the grass to whom she must supply ideas, more and more of them.”

What then do Ted Kaczynski, Christiana Morgan, Henry Murray, Harvard University, and the CIA share as a common denominator. The answer is MK Ultra. I am not at all convinced that torturous covert experiments inflicted upon Ted Kaczynski as a young man did not in some way shape his later radicalism. I also have reservations about the organic unfolding of Christiana Morgan’s love affair and unacknowledged collaborations with Henry Murray. It seems to me that the covert agendas in mind control were entrenched within certain elite circles made up of powerful men with an interest in charting and mining the human psyche, cartographers of the human soul for the purpose of plunder.

In the world of covert operations, nothing is as it seems, events, meetings, and the dissemination of information is contrived. In the end both Ted Kaczynski, and Christiana Morgan allegedly died by suicide, each having played a part in something beyond themselves, something that remained hidden from the day-to-day perceptions of the controllable, hood-winked world.

The very advancements that Ted Kaczynski warned us about are the new tools of control; today there is no need for cold war brainwashing techniques, the topography of our soul has been well charted. And yet… somethings remain sacred, impenetrable, governed by laws and codes out with the jurisdiction of even the most powerful men of the technocratic world.