# 2083 A European Declaration of Independence The roughly 1,500-page compendium that [[Anders Behring Breivik]] emailed to about a thousand recipients hours before the [[2011 Norway Attacks]], in which he murdered 77 people. Its title casts the document as a founding charter for a future Europe "liberated" by 2083 — the 400th anniversary of the 1683 Battle of Vienna — placing it, like the [[White Declaration of Independence]] and the [[South Carolina Declaration of Secession]], squarely in the declaration-of-independence genre this Works folder tracks: counter-democratic violence dressed in the costume of revolutionary founding. ## What it is — mostly other people's words The most analytically important fact about "2083" is that Breivik wrote little of it. It is a cut-and-paste assembly: - **Counter-jihad bloggers**, lifted at length — the pseudonymous "Fjordman," Robert Spencer, Bat Ye'or (whose [[Eurabia]] thesis supplies the spine), and the broader anti-Islam web that recast Muslim immigration as a planned civilizational conquest abetted by treasonous "cultural Marxist" elites. This is the [[Great Replacement Theory]] in its counter-jihad register, a few years before [[Renaud Camus]]'s phrasing became dominant. - **[[Theodore Kaczynski]]'s [[Industrial Society and Its Future]]**, plagiarized nearly verbatim — Breivik took Kaczynski's anti-"leftist" passages and swapped "leftists" for "cultural Marxists" and "multiculturalists," a documented word-substitution that exposes the interchangeable, modular quality of these texts. - **A fantasy order**, the "Knights Templar," and a grandiose autobiographical/operational final section presenting the author as a one-man vanguard. ## The pattern it set "2083" established much of the template later automated by [[Brenton Tarrant]] and the [[Saint Culture]] lineage: the pre-attack upload to a wide list, the framing of mass murder as a "marketing" operation for the text, the self-presentation as a heroic first soldier meant to inspire imitators, and the modular ideology that lets a shooter assemble a worldview from existing online sources. Breivik's explicit goal was to be copied; the document is addressed to future attackers as much as to any public. ## Why it matters for the KB It is the hinge between the older counter-jihad/Eurabia conspiracism and the [[Great Replacement Theory]] terror wave of 2019–2022, and the clearest demonstration that these manifestos are compilations rather than original works — which is precisely what makes the ideology portable across borders and targets (Breivik's enemy was "Marxist" European elites and Muslims; Tarrant's was Muslim immigrants; later copycats substituted Jews and Black Americans). The Kaczynski plagiarism also links the anti-technology and white-nationalist poles of the vault's accelerationism map through a literal copy-paste. For [[Stochastic Terrorism]], "2083" is a foundational exhibit: a text engineered to convert a diffuse online ideology into individual acts of violence. [[Manifestos and Founding Documents Hub]]