Luigi Mangione, the man alleged to have killed Brian Thompson, wrote a review of Ted Kaczynski's Industrial Society and its Future on Goodreads and this sparked a flurry of renewed interest in it so I thought I might add my two cents on the controversial piece. The manifesto is available on this very site and several other places. I'm just going to outline the work and my two major problems with it rather than exploring the whole thing and responding to every point.

Firstly, I want to say that the manifesto is well written. Kaczynski's incisive and compact style rapidly presents his thesis, marshals evidence in its favor, and answers objections. Having read political tracts whose authors seemed to believe they were being payed by the word I am glad for this. The sophistication of the language and arguments seem to operate right at the limit of the median English speaker's understanding which seems appropriate given its intended

American science fiction mystery novel, written by Carrie Vaughn and published by Mariner Books in 2017. 

The book is set an unspecified period in the future in an area known as the Coast Road, somewhere on the West Coast of the former United States. About a century ago, the world suffered a profound collapse of the economy and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people died and civilization worldwide fell completely apart. The Earth is now in a recovery period -- so

One of the few times
I admit I have lied
Is when she asks
“Is the song about me?”
And I say
“No..”