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It also gives some context to Ted Kaczynski - when I learned that he was possibly dosed on massive amounts of LSD and screamed at while in college. It's not a h
by fossuser 5y ago
It also gives some context to Ted Kaczynski - when I learned that he was possibly dosed on massive amounts of LSD and screamed at while in college. It's not a huge leap from there to why he broke down and became the unabomber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Harvard_College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Harvard_College
I can't really imagine that - and it went on for a long time, I would be surprised if a person experience that didn't have some kind of mental break.
"In his second year at Harvard, Kaczynski participated in a study described by author Alston Chase as a "purposely brutalizing psychological experiment" led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. Subjects were told they would debate personal philosophy with a fellow student and were asked to write essays detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations. The essays were turned over to an anonymous individual who would confront and belittle the subject in what Murray himself called "vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive" attacks, using the content of the essays as ammunition.[26] Electrodes monitored the subject's physiological reactions. These encounters were filmed, and subjects' expressions of anger and rage were later played back to them repeatedly.[26] The experiment lasted three years, with someone verbally abusing and humiliating Kaczynski each week.[27][28] Kaczynski spent 200 hours as part of the study.[29]
Kaczynski's lawyers later attributed his hostility towards mind control techniques to his participation in Murray's study.[26] Some sources have suggested that Murray's experiments were part of Project MKUltra, the Central Intelligence Agency's research into mind control.[30][31] Chase and others have also suggested that this experience may have motivated Kaczynski's criminal activities"