They only result in power for special groups who just push the rest of us around. . . . No ideology or political system can get around the hard facts of life in industrial society. Because any form of industrial society requires a high level of organization, all decisions have to be made by a small elite of leaders and experts who necessarily wield all the power. . . . Even if the motives of this elite were completely unselfish, they would still HAVE TO exploit and manipulate us simply to keep the system running. Thus the evil is in the nature of technology itself.
Man is a social animal, meant to live in groups.
Man is not meant to live as an insignificant atom in a vast organization, which is the only way he can live in any form of industrialized society. This does not imply that we are in any sense a ring-wing movement. We are apolitical. Politics only distracts atention from the real issue. In June 1995, in the course of negotiating the publication of a manifesto of more than 35,000 words, the Unabomber declared, Penthouse is basically an entertainment magazine that contains also some serious commentary.