The Unabomber's Manifesto: Have You Read Start to Finish?
 

I am curious to know how many people actually read The Unabomber's Manifesto, start to finish. For whatever reason, either curiosity, because you worship the guy, whatever. What did you think then? What do you think now? Do you believe anything he said is true? Or is it all just the rantings of a nutcase?

?It's curious," ?"to read what people in the time of Our Ford used to write about scientific progress. They seemed to have imagined that it could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest was secondary and subordinate. True, ideas were beginning to change even then. Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift. ? Still, in spite of everything, unrestricted scientific research was still permitted. People still went on talking about truth and beauty as though they were the sovereign goods. Right up to the time of the Nine Years' War. That made them change their tune all right. What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you? That was when science first began to be controlled?after the Nine Years' War.?

- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

i actually bought the book but never read it

LOL, its avaliable freely on the net, you know... :)

Never read it.

If I care to view the ramblings of mad men, I can always go to GFY.

In 1962, Kaczynski graduated from Harvard. After graduation he attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, earning a master's degree and a Ph.D. in mathematics. Kaczynski began a research career at Michigan but made few friends. One of his professors at Michigan, George Piranian, said: "It is not enough to say he was smart." He earned his Ph.D. by solving, in less than a year, a math problem that Piranian had been unable to solve. Kaczynski's specialty was a branch of complex analysis known as geometric function theory. "I would guess that maybe 10 or 12 people in the country understood or appreciated it", said Maxwell O. Reade, a retired math professor who served on Kaczynski's dissertation committee. In 1967 Kaczynski received a $100 prize recognizing his dissertation entitled 'Boundary Functions' as the school's best in math that year. At Michigan he held a National Science Foundation fellowship. There he taught undergraduates for three years and published two articles related to his dissertation in mathematical journals. After he left Michigan, he published four more papers.