Further Reading For Ted Kaczynski: The Unabomber
The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future by Ted Kaczynski
Unabomber: A Desire to Kill by Robert Graymith
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Ted Kaczynski was many things. He was a genius mathematician, a professor of math, an anarcho-primitivist (which is an actual thing), a domestic terrorist like Timothy McVeigh, and a man that smelled like sour milk 24/7. Never forget that. The next person you meet that smells like spoiled milk probably at the very least has a 200+ page manifesto. So keep your eyes peeled.
Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski, also known as The Unabomber or UNABOM if you’re in the FBI, secluded himself away from society in a tiny shack in Montana where he built and mailed a series of increasingly more sophisticated bombs. Targets of his bombings were Universities and airlines, hence UNiversity and Airline BOMber. Kaczynski, a deeply broken and incredibly intelligent individual removed himself from society and sought revenge on it for a series of complaints about technology and the direction that human civilization was taking in the face of a declining environment and economic situation around the world.
At the time of his arrest, Ted had killed 3 with his bombs and injured 23. The hunt to track him down and try him ended up being the most costly investigation in American history to that point. In the end, a peculiar quirk of his writing, found in his published manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, led to Ted’s brother turning him in. Ted now lives in the ADX Florence Supermax prison and will never see the light of day ever again
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