A lot of fascinating detail about him in that article. I forgot he was still alive, but Im sure his victim's families haven't. "which claimed modern society and technology was leading to a sense...
A lot of fascinating detail about him in that article. I forgot he was still alive, but Im sure his victim's families haven't.
He forced The Washington Post, in conjunction with The New York Times, to make the agonizing decision in September 1995 to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future,” which claimed modern society and technology was leading to a sense of powerlessness and alienation.
But it led to his undoing. Kaczynski’s brother, David, and David’s wife, Linda Patrik, recognized the treatise’s tone and tipped off the FBI, which had been searching for the Unabomber for years in nation’s longest, costliest manhunt.
"which claimed modern society and technology was leading to a sense of powerlessness and alienation" Can't say he was wrong. He was a very smart (but disturbed) man who had a lot of insight.
I think we, as in society, often make the mistake of thinking that people who are mentally ill, who have personality disorders, or who engage in most criminal behavior are less intelligent....
I think we, as in society, often make the mistake of thinking that people who are mentally ill, who have personality disorders, or who engage in most criminal behavior are less intelligent. Sometimes they're less formally educated because of the barriers to education, but that doesn't make them stupid. And sometimes they had all the education they could get and still decide to use it to kill others.
There is an excellent podcast series called “Cabin” by the Relentless Picnic that spends a lot of time on the Unabomber’s manifesto. It really defies categorization into a genre or anything. The...
There is an excellent podcast series called “Cabin” by the Relentless Picnic that spends a lot of time on the Unabomber’s manifesto.
It really defies categorization into a genre or anything. The hosts read the manifesto, talk about what might be appealing about it and also what’s unhinged, tie it into broader structural critique of modern society, compare it with Thoreau, tie it into modern pathologies like inceldom, talk about isolation due to the pandemic, and more.
A lot of fascinating detail about him in that article. I forgot he was still alive, but Im sure his victim's families haven't.
"which claimed modern society and technology was leading to a sense of powerlessness and alienation" Can't say he was wrong. He was a very smart (but disturbed) man who had a lot of insight.
I think we, as in society, often make the mistake of thinking that people who are mentally ill, who have personality disorders, or who engage in most criminal behavior are less intelligent. Sometimes they're less formally educated because of the barriers to education, but that doesn't make them stupid. And sometimes they had all the education they could get and still decide to use it to kill others.
There is an excellent podcast series called “Cabin” by the Relentless Picnic that spends a lot of time on the Unabomber’s manifesto.
It really defies categorization into a genre or anything. The hosts read the manifesto, talk about what might be appealing about it and also what’s unhinged, tie it into broader structural critique of modern society, compare it with Thoreau, tie it into modern pathologies like inceldom, talk about isolation due to the pandemic, and more.
I highly recommend checking it out.