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I remember reading this as a young person and being impressed by how intellectual it sounded. Reading it as an adult, it now sounds like a dressed-up rant from

I remember reading this as a young person and being impressed by how intellectual it sounded. Reading it as an adult, it now sounds like a dressed-up rant from your uncle who spends far too much time watching a certain cable news network.

DonHopkins 7y ago
I remember when they were stopping and harassing people who were wearing hoodies and sunglasses around town, because of that silly and totally inaccurate Wanted poster. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-wanted-poster-1-tony-rubino.html https://fineartamerica.com/featured/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-... You'd think he'd be smart enough not to go out strolling the city streets wearing the same exact hoodie and sunglasses as the "Unibom Law Enforcement Task Force" put on his wanted poster.
- wespiser_2018 7y ago
  For the longest time, I had my fb photo set to that sketch. Turns out, the famous sketch linked above that we know is not accurate, may have been the original sketch artist, as considerable time had passed between the sighting and the sketch. https://www.bustle.com/p/who-was-the-unabomber-sketch-artist-manhunt-unabomber-claims-there-was-more-than-one-78167 https://www.bustle.com/p/who-was-the-unabomber-sketch-artist...
kneel 7y ago
Ted Kaczynski offered a critique of 'leftism' that still seems to be accurate. The 'Bay Area Liberal' stereotype that prioritizes defense of victims over all other matters.. well we've definitely seen explosions in that arena. The larger picture of technology taking over society seems to be accurate as well. It was only 13 years ago when we got the iphone, it's bizarre to think that people didn't stare at their phones constantly only 15 years ago.
- gridlockd 7y ago
  > Ted Kaczynski offered a critique of 'leftism' that still seems to be accurate. I highly doubt that's his own analysis, rather it's Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morality" dressed up in a more modern vernacular.
  - salty_biscuits 7y ago
    And just like how I interpret Nietzsche in the context of him being the third wheel in an open relationship, this feels like someone who is reacting because they feel let down by the promises of "leftism" or society in general. It says more about the psychic state of the author than about the truth of the world.
- mullingitover 7y ago
  > Ted Kaczynski offered a critique of 'leftism' that still seems to be accurate. Funny, I totally disagree and it looks to me like he was constructing an elaborate strawman. People made the same sorts of generalizations about certain ethnic groups in the past, and I felt like he was doing the same thing and lazily running sed 's/jews/leftists'.
notahacker 7y ago
Yeah, have to admit that having heard Kaczynski's manifesto was actually thoughtful and insightful and not at all what you'd expect from someone most known for committing atrocities, I wasn't expecting the first part to be dedicated to a cranky subreddit level of analysis of 'leftist' thought. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. YAWN. Putting parenthical (We do not mean to suggest that women, Indians, etc. ARE inferior; we are only making a point about leftist psychology.) comments in to show how much more open-minded he is than the libs he's owning (because, he argues there's no reason the left could display interest in helping minorities other than believing minorities are inferior). YAWN Frankly that sort of political ranting is exactly what you'd expect to find in the 'manifesto' of somebody better known for violent crime (as well as the writings of a lot of people who aren't). There seems to be an awful lot of projection going on in there, for a start, but even that angle probably isn't particularly insightful since non-sociopaths and even people who mostly come across as pretty well-adjusted and happy also write this sort of generalization about their political adversaries.

DonHopkins 7y ago

I remember when they were stopping and harassing people who were wearing hoodies and sunglasses around town, because of that silly and totally inaccurate Wanted poster. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-wanted-poster-1-tony-rubino.html https://fineartamerica.com/featured/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-... You'd think he'd be smart enough not to go out strolling the city streets wearing the same exact hoodie and sunglasses as the "Unibom Law Enforcement Task Force" put on his wanted poster.

wespiser_2018 7y ago
For the longest time, I had my fb photo set to that sketch. Turns out, the famous sketch linked above that we know is not accurate, may have been the original sketch artist, as considerable time had passed between the sighting and the sketch. https://www.bustle.com/p/who-was-the-unabomber-sketch-artist-manhunt-unabomber-claims-there-was-more-than-one-78167 https://www.bustle.com/p/who-was-the-unabomber-sketch-artist...

kneel 7y ago

Ted Kaczynski offered a critique of 'leftism' that still seems to be accurate. The 'Bay Area Liberal' stereotype that prioritizes defense of victims over all other matters.. well we've definitely seen explosions in that arena. The larger picture of technology taking over society seems to be accurate as well. It was only 13 years ago when we got the iphone, it's bizarre to think that people didn't stare at their phones constantly only 15 years ago.

gridlockd 7y ago
> Ted Kaczynski offered a critique of 'leftism' that still seems to be accurate. I highly doubt that's his own analysis, rather it's Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morality" dressed up in a more modern vernacular.
- salty_biscuits 7y ago
  And just like how I interpret Nietzsche in the context of him being the third wheel in an open relationship, this feels like someone who is reacting because they feel let down by the promises of "leftism" or society in general. It says more about the psychic state of the author than about the truth of the world.
mullingitover 7y ago
> Ted Kaczynski offered a critique of 'leftism' that still seems to be accurate. Funny, I totally disagree and it looks to me like he was constructing an elaborate strawman. People made the same sorts of generalizations about certain ethnic groups in the past, and I felt like he was doing the same thing and lazily running sed 's/jews/leftists'.

notahacker 7y ago

Yeah, have to admit that having heard Kaczynski's manifesto was actually thoughtful and insightful and not at all what you'd expect from someone most known for committing atrocities, I wasn't expecting the first part to be dedicated to a cranky subreddit level of analysis of 'leftist' thought. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. YAWN. Putting parenthical (We do not mean to suggest that women, Indians, etc. ARE inferior; we are only making a point about leftist psychology.) comments in to show how much more open-minded he is than the libs he's owning (because, he argues there's no reason the left could display interest in helping minorities other than believing minorities are inferior). YAWN Frankly that sort of political ranting is exactly what you'd expect to find in the 'manifesto' of somebody better known for violent crime (as well as the writings of a lot of people who aren't). There seems to be an awful lot of projection going on in there, for a start, but even that angle probably isn't particularly insightful since non-sociopaths and even people who mostly come across as pretty well-adjusted and happy also write this sort of generalization about their political adversaries.