This episode initially ran on Monday 19 June 2023.
Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski died on the federal jail in Butner, North Carolina, final yr on the age of 81. Generally known as the “Unabomber”, Kaczynski waged a 17-year bombing marketing campaign from an remoted shack within the Montana wilderness earlier than lastly being caught in 1996. A kind of who helped apprehend Kaczynski was former FBI agent Jim Fitzgerald. He tells Michael Safi that the arrest was solely doable following the publication of the bomber’s manifesto within the Washington Publish. It was these phrases that had been recognised by Kaczynski’s brother, who took his issues to the authorities.
However the publication of that manifesto had different penalties. It has impressed copycat assaults and is claimed as an affect by others who’ve gone on to commit atrocities around the globe.
It begins with the phrases: “The Industrial Revolution and its penalties have been a catastrophe for the human race.” After which goes on to element Kaczynski’s perception within the want for violent rise up towards fashionable know-how and those that assist develop it. The billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted “he may not be unsuitable”.
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