It involves the more or less autonomous expenditure of effort in pursuit goals, and requires a measure of success for individual well-being. The bomber equates autonomy with power itself, observing that some people seem to meet this need through membership in organizations and other indirect and vicarious ways. This process can be distorted in a variety of ways, leading to a whole galaxy of pathology and inappropriate behavior. M odern technological society subsists on the distortion of this process, by virtue of the fact that most of its achievements require large-scale organizations for their implementation and maintenance. Kaczynski lives as far from the world as he possibly can, given his resources.
Autonomy is crucial.
A system based on advanced technology cannot permit a large degree of autonomy in its subjects. Among the American Indians, for example, boys were trained in active outdoor pursuits - just the sort of things that boys like. He, like the bomber, appeared to reject modern technology, but both he and the bomber proved to be inept at the autonomous living they prized. Kaczynski sold a truck he couldn't get to run, according to a neighbor, but the problem was quite simple. But the joints were ineptly made, the cuts seldom true.