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There were other people equally prophetic without the appalling character defects that demanded murder and mayhem be used to argue their case rather than ideas.
by mellosouls 6y ago
There were other people equally prophetic without the appalling character defects that demanded murder and mayhem be used to argue their case rather than ideas.
It's unfortunate that the glamour of violence adds nostalgic credibility that isn't particularly deserved.
- tptacek 6y agoIt's funny, because the Manifesto is usually weaponized the other way: people appeal to pre-industrial (and often reactionary) ways of life, to conservatism, against political correctness, against policing, or statism, or capital, or popular culture, or indoor plumbing, or whatever, and the dunk on them is that they're supposedly espousing Kaczynskism; it's ordinarily a way of discrediting an argument. (It's a bad way of discrediting an argument; there's little in the Manifesto that isn't a regurgitation of some other previous thinker, and unless you're in the cabin pooping in the hole with him, there's really no such thing as Kaczynskism).