So I never bothered to look up the Unabomber before and never knew the story of Ted Kaczynski. This documentary just popped on my feed so I decided to watch it. And what do you know, Ted Kaczynski wasn’t wrong about a lot of things. He was actually quite ahead of his time. This is what he thought:
The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race:
1- Industrialization has forced people into crowded, unnatural environments, especially big cities, robbing them of their freedom.
2- Modern Tech gave governments and corporations unprecedented power to control citizens. “It is likely that technology will eventually acquire something approaching complete control over human behavior.”
3- He condemned the medical establishment, believing antidepressants numbed people to a sick world.
4- He accused the media of spreading misinformation and enforcing conformity. “The mass media are mostly under the control of large organizations that are integrated into the system.” The media is a form of psychological manipulation
5- Freedom could only exist in small decentralized communities
6- Only revolution by outsiders can save civilization.
I mean…he wasn’t wrong.
He wouldn’t have been caught if his brother hadn’t snitched on him. He shouldn’t have demanded his Manifesto be published until he was old and dying. The Manifesto had his style of writing which led his brother to know it was him. Or at the least, change the Manifesto and use different wording so it wouldn’t be traced back to him. He should know that most people do not write or speak like him, and when you have things in writing, that’s when they can be analyzed and killers get caught.
Well his ideas above weren’t wrong, though he went a little crazy bombing people, especially earlier on when he just targeted random university students and such. Obviously bombing innocent people is wrong. If he had stuck to bombing big powerful evil ppl (which he was starting to do in the end, like the guy in charge of bulldozing Forests), then that would’ve been another story. He could’ve been the “Luigi Mangione” of his time if he had targeted the “right” people.
His ideas about society and government and control weren’t wrong. Obviously, he went about it the wrong way. He wasn’t the crazy loner we were told to believe. Ah the media- always controlling the narrative. That was one of his main points, and the media proved him right.