Quote from: FarmGirl on Jun 18, 2023, 08:29 PMSo you are assigning value to sheer quantity?

No, quantity by itself is not sufficient, content is also an important factor.  TKs screed was an argument against industrialization and how people were destroying the planet.  The argument is basically correct.  His solution was to unilaterally declare war on the civilization.  AFAIK, he wasn't targeting individuals to kill, he was bombing establishments to begin the process of destroying the enemy, which in his analysis was the civilization.  The dead p0eople were what the FSoA Military calls "collateral damage".  We are perfectly OK with civilians getting terminated in a war as long as the overall cause is considered justified.

Now, clearly his methodology wasn't very effective and had a low probability of success, but in his MK Ultra addled brain it seemed to him like the best way to achieve the overall goal of destroying the civilization. Since he did not have the resources of the FSoA Military in terms of number of bombs and good delivery systems to wreak mayhem and destruction on the enemy, he had to settle for working by stealth and small scale over a long period of time.  He did not in the end succeed in winning his war of course, but he wasn't wrong about the nature of the enemy.

He did have some success in the sense that his campaign got him a lot of notoriety and a whole lot more people read his manifesto than otherwise might have been likely.  He got a whole lot more than 15 minutes of fame, he was in the news cycle for a solid couple of decades.  Also, simply labeling him a "murderer" isn't accurate, it would be more accurate to call him a terrorist or perhaps climate warrior if you want to throw a positive spin on it.  After all, one man's Terrorist is another man's Freedom Fighter, it just depends whose side you are on.

As we move forward down the Collapse Highway, I suspect there will be many more bombings of the infrastructure of industrial civilization, from banks to data centers to refineries and power plants.  Ted Koscynski was just ahead of his time, a preview of the world to come.

RE