>Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part Seven

> Left: Theodore Kaczynski, 9 — Right: David Kaczynski, 2 The Unabomb Taskforce of the FBI had – over 17 years – dealt with 3,600 volumes of information, 175 computer data bases, 82 million records, 12,000 event documents and 9,000 evidence photographs. And still they couldn’t catch the Unabomber, this one man living in a … Continue reading >Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part Seven

>Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part Six

> Previous posts about The Unabomber: Part OnePart TwoPart ThreePart FourPart Five Theodore Kaczynski, the militant atheist who believed that violence was the only solution.In an untitled essay in 1971 (pre-Manifesto) he wrote: ”The principal effect of technology is to increase the power of society collectively. This empowers social forces that are then able to … Continue reading >Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part Six

>Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part Five

>Homemade gun, homemade bomb and the manifesto. (Click to enlarge)(For supersized version click here) Kaczynski’s bomb found by FBI:s top bomb expert James C. Ronay on American Airlines Flight 444 (November 15, 1979) is described in Harvard and The Unabomber: Inside the container, Ronay found fragments of a meticulously constructed homemade bomb that had been … Continue reading >Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part Five

>Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part Four

> In a time of intellectual crisis the culture of despair manifests anti-modernism. The Unabomber was extremely serious about his ideas and saw no other way to get attention to them than to resort to terrorism. From the chapter ”The nature of freedom” in the manifesto (”we” is Kaczynski alone. He always referred to himself … Continue reading >Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part Four

>Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part Three

>The Unabomber’s code sheet for encrypting his notes. The media created a lot of myths about our Unabomber that still linger on. For example, his ”into the wild” thing wasn’t really that very wild. He lived six kilometres (four miles) out of Lincoln and the journalists who arrived from bigger cities to cover the story … Continue reading >Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part Three

>Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part Two

> Alston Chase, author of Harvard and The Unabomber, quotes Colin Wilson‘s The Outsider: The Outsider’s case against society is very clear. All men and women have these dangerous, unnameable impulses, yet they keep up a pretense, to themselves, to others; their respectability, their philosophy, their religion, are all attempts to gloss over, to make … Continue reading >Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part Two

>Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part One

>Theodore Kaczynski, June 21, 1996. The story of civilization is […] the story of engineering. […]Civilization is a matter of power over the world and nature and skill in exploiting this world. It has nothing to do with kindness, honesty, or peacefulness.L. Sprague De Camp, The Ancient Engineers (1987) I just read Industrial Society & … Continue reading >Theodore Kaczynski – The Unabomber, Part One