The link below takes the reader to Albert Bates' blog and a remarkable re-examination of the life and times of Ted Kaszynski:

]Eulogy for the Unabomber



After a discussion into the life of John Brown and an implicit comparison ("It took more than a century for people to come around in their thinking about John Brown," Bates examines the thought and writings of a man of extraordinary genius whose sense of human dignity was profoundly altered, at age 16, by being secretly made the subject of an MKULTRA mind control experiment while a child prodigy undergrad at Harvard.

This article is long-- pack a lunch-- but it rewards the effort.

Bates:

QuoteWhen you see the disheveled arrest photos of Ted Kaczynski run beside the story of his suicide and the usual pablum about his bombing campaign without mention of MKULTRA, just remember, you are the cultural programming subject the Unabomber was warning about.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jul 25, 2023, 10:56 AM

The down and dirty about the unabomber.

The government puts your brain on a petri dish.  You might want REVENGE.

Who woulda thunk that?  Surprise Surprise.

QuoteI believe Ted was objectively correct in his analysis of our modern world, and many of his predictions have come true since he wrote his essay.

If you subscribe entirely to Ted's philosophy, then sure his Solutions seem like the only way forward.  But for most people myself very much included.  Sending bombs in the mail seems like a pretty bad solution to very real problems. 

Indeed it would seem to me like his 20 years of domestic terrorism had basically no impact on the world.

Resemblance to RE is completely coincidental.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jul 25, 2023, 11:14 AMResemblance to RE is completely coincidental.

The problem with letter bombs is anyone worth sending one to has somebody else to open the mail.  Demolishing the mailrooms probably won't save humanity.  I am in general agreement with TK that technology is the main problem of our species, because it separated us so far from all other living things we have essentially no predators.  Modern medicine and the extension of the human lifespan was the last straw.  Runaway human population overshoot doomed the planet, though hopefully not irretrievably.

Only time will tell what shakes out after the population knockdown.  None of us will be around by then to see it though.

RE

QuoteThe problem with letter bombs is anyone worth sending one to has somebody else to open the mail

Good point!