(01-01-2019, 01:06 PM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(01-01-2019, 08:23 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Kaczynski had problems perhaps related to an early disease that by some accounts gave him a flawed character that had much latent anger and no ability to love. He was good at math and a loser at all else.
High IQ, but low EQ?
I still find his analysis of Leftist psychology and the "power process" quite illuminating.
It sounds like a meeting of autism and sociopathy.
I am on the spectrum, and I know that I can't get away with much.
That he got a few things right in his "Unabom Manifesto"? A broken clock is right every twelve hours. Note also that there was and still is much hostility between leftist factions. The Trotskyites and Maoists would be at each others' throats. The Hard Left seems far more splintered than the Hard Right, the Hard Right being much more syncretic. I have seen people in KKK robes -- with Nazi swastikas. An organization called Crosstar unwittingly used the symbol of the WWII-era, Nazi-like Hungarian Arrow Cross Movement, took note of it, and took pride in the connection to a Jew-butchering gang. The Greek Golden Dawn thugs have adopted the Nazi Horst-Wessel-Lied, even if Nazi occupation of Greece was so harsh that the Greeks would have welcomed the Turks as liberators. There is no possible synthesis between Tito and Castro. The concept of human brotherhood does not apply to extremists except in shared hatred -- and then within the fascistic Right (blacks, Jews, liberals, social democrats, Communists, homosexuals, feminists, organized labor).
Ted Kaczynski went so far to the Left that he took on extreme-Right characteristics.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.