Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
It is true that many believed Kaczynski was insane because they needed to believe it. But the truly disturbing aspect of Kaczynski and his ideas is not that they are so foreign but that they are so familiar. The manifesto is the work of neither a genius nor a maniac. Except for its call to violence, the ideas it expresses are perfectly ordinary and
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Except he was not generative in his project. He defined himself and his values as in opposition to something else, not in themselves. This is a negative view, perpetually in response, that cannot bring about change precisely because it lacks the generative vision of the future while it seeks to preserve the possibility of a future. We can only march towards something. We cannot walk away from something for very long.