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HappySadBlah (talk | contribs) I'm not sure how to do footnotes so here's the Baltimore Sun web page that says that Ship of Fools was published in 1999: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1999-08-29/entertainment/9909080384_1_kaczynski-manifesto-fiction |
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[[Image:Narrenschiff (1549).jpg|thumb|The [[ship of fools]], depicted in a 1549 German woodcut]] |
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"'''Ship of Fools'''" is a [[short story]] written by [[Ted Kaczynski]] and published in 1999 in which various people, representing oppressed groups in [[Culture of the United States|American society]], squabble about living conditions aboard a [[ship]], in spite of the fact that its course towards the [[North Pole]] presents ever-increasing danger.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sacredfools.org/CrimeScene/CaseFiles/S2/ShipOfFoolsStory.htm |title=Text of "Ship of Fools" |publisher=Sacred Fools Theater Company|accessdate=2011-07-25}}</ref> The cabin boy warns of their impending doom and calls for a few of them to charge the deck and oust the captains. However, he is dismissed as a violent, unrealistic [[Fascism|fascist]] and ignored. The story concludes abruptly: |
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{{Quotation|They pushed him away and went back to grumbling about wages, and about blankets for women, and about the right to suck cocks, and about how the dog was treated. The ship kept sailing north, and after a while it was crushed between two icebergs and everyone drowned.}} The story could be interpreted as an [[allegory]] of Kaczynski's vision of how society is progressing as outlined in his [[manifesto]] entitled "[[s:Industrial Society and Its Future#|Industrial Society and Its Future]]". |
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==Historical background== |
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Prior to Kaczynski's "Ship of Fools", there was a moralistic poem written in 1494 by [[Sebastian Brant]] titled ''[[Ship of Fools (satire)|Das Narrenschiff]]'' (''Ship of Fools''), which in turn inspired a painting of the same name by [[Hieronymus Bosch]], as well as a novel titled ''Ship of Fools'' by [[Katherine Anne Porter]] based on this earlier work, both of which employ characters who symbolize different vices upon a ship together. |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.sacredfools.org/CrimeScene/CaseFiles/S2/ShipOfFools.htm Adaptation as a play] |
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*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6285474262541476793 Animated film adaptation] |
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*[http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Ted_Kaczynski__Ship_of_Fools.html Alternate Text of "Ship of Fools"] |
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[[Category:American short stories|Ship of Fools]] |
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[[Category:Anarcho-primitivism]] |
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