For anyone who doesn’t know who this was, it’s a photo of Ted Kaczynski - the unabomber- a terrorist who over approx. 20 years mailed and placed a series of bombs targeting universities and other technology-focused places and people, killing three and permanently injuring more than a dozen others.
Posting him here is a reference to his manifesto in which he lays out many grievances against technology and industrialization, including increased ability for governments to surveil their citizens.
AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This dude was nuts, and definitely a pos bc he hurt so many people for no real reason, but when you read about the stuff he was worried about, it’s eerily accurate. It’s like he crawled inside Peter Thiel’s head, got a glimpse of his plans, and that’s what set him off the deep end.
fleebleneeble@lemm.ee 5 months ago
While I don’t fully agree with his methods in terms of he seemed to randomly select people who were otherwise not as much a part of the problem to blow up, why he is “nuts” has a really sad and fucked up reason / origin. He was basically mentally and physically tortured through an academically hosted, governmental project.
AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 5 months ago
True, and I didn’t mean it in a necessarily derogatory way in terms of judgment for his mental illness, but for his actions. I know I should be more careful about saying things like that, and didn’t mean to imply anything negative about people who struggle with mental illness.
It’s complicated. Nobody should have had to go through what he did, but something awful somebody went through can’t be used as a justification for them doing something awful to somebody else. It can be the reason they did it, and it may arguably make them not fully responsible for their own behavior, but it also doesn’t make them an innocent if they harm someone else.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So did anyone else in the study turn to terrorism to express themselves…?
AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 5 months ago
To be fair, he was probably the youngest and most vulnerable participant, and the experiment lasted 3 years. He started attending Harvard at 16, and was probably around 16/17 when the study began.
They used psychological warfare on a kid who was already socially reserved on top of feeling alienated from his peers due to his age, away from his family for the first time in his life, and during what we now recognize is probably the most critical window for young men in particular to develop a mental illness like schizophrenia, they did this:
Like holy shit…
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
His motives were downright prescient, but his targets were poorly chosen to put it lightly