Mostly known for the atrocious acts he committed to bring his message forward, Theodore John Kaczynski has provided a very lucid understanding of our industrial society. Understanding the problematic that it entails, not the least the destruction of the natural world, he is perhaps one of the most convinced advocates of primitivism. He not only lived for decades as a hunter-gatherer but also analyzed the advantages of this mode of life such as better physical as well as mental health.

What is perhaps missing in Kaczynski's analyses is the understanding that hunter-gatherer people were socially cohesive and that the use of violence was strongly repudiated; it mostly manifested itself with the introduction of horses, alcohol, weapons and the stress that encroaches civilizations brought with them. Beside this open discussion, an important aspect that can be extracted from Kaczynski's writings is his warning against trying to squeeze the pristine nomadic-hunter-gatherer model into a political agenda as partly done by John Zerzan and his followers. He instead invites for a more thorough reading of hunter-gatherer societies, something the cultural rewilding framework is concretely pursuing.