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The power process was a ] basic to almost all of the other concepts and ideas Kaczynski wrote about in his manifesto. The power process was a ] basic to almost all of the other concepts and ideas Kaczynski wrote about in his manifesto.



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The power process is a theoretical process necessary to fulfill one's psychological need to exert power to fulfill goals, discussed in Theodore Kaczynski's manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future. Kaczinski suggested that the need to undergo the power process was biological, and used historical and modern examples to demonstrate the importance of this need.

Kaczynski wrote that the power process has four necessary requirements. They are setting goals, exerting serious effort towards achieving one's goals, fulfilling one's goals with a reasonable success rate, and fulfilling one's goals autonomously. He suggested that, while it is important to fulfill the need for autonomy, some people have little or no need for autonomy.

The power process was a concept basic to almost all of the other concepts and ideas Kaczynski wrote about in his manifesto.

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