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What better way to understand the flaws in the system than understand the gripes of those who were driven truly to the edge? He didn't exist in a vacuum. Most "
by klik99 5y ago
What better way to understand the flaws in the system than understand the gripes of those who were driven truly to the edge? He didn't exist in a vacuum. Most "deranged terrorists" you have to really read between the lines of what they're saying to see how the system failed them, because it's easy to place blame in the wrong places, but he was smart and eloquent (which deranged people can be). Looking at what he got right, what he got wrong, and how he fails at a solution is important - if ignored then people coming to it will see nothing to refute it, just a lot of people avoiding looking at it. In a sense the Unabomber manifesto is a visible symptom of some invisible systemic problems.
You don't have to agree with the conclusions to see value in something - heck, I see Marx discussed in republican think tank pieces occasionally because they agree with some parts of his analysis, even if they disagree fundamentally with his proposed solutions.