Learned this weekend that Kaczynski was part of a psych study that may have had ties with MK Ultra. Lot of fascinating info here:https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard-and-the-making-of-the-unabomber/378239/ …
There’s a letter floating about where TK denies the experiments had any influence on him. That is his view, probably to protect his politics. Presumably, he didn’t want to be pinned as insane. Who knows the real impact.
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The Manhunt series episode paints it that TK had most of his anti-tech ideas already and the psych experiment was trying to break him of it. Then all the terrorism was an expression of rage against lifelong betrayal (partially by the experimenter).
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I don't buy it though. It's contradicted in the show itself by the main character (FBI profiler) who says the terrorism is too impersonal to be an expression of revenge and is likely ideological.
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I need to see if Ted's letters to his brother are out there somewhere. The show indicates that TK divulged his thinking and emotional state to him but idk where the fact/fiction divide gets blurry do serve the dramatization.
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The problem with television shows is that the personal angle will be accentuated to make a story. There’s no room—certainly not in a conventional TV show—for ideas. The format does not allow it. Pseudo-Freudian traumas drive people in these shows, not in necessarily in life.
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