AlCelticFan wrote:ZeroTolerance wrote:Has anyone been watching the Unabomber mini series that has been airing on a couple of the DTV channels recently?
It's quite good IMO and it not only documents the story of the infamous Unabomber who terrorized this country with his mail bombs but it also asks some very real questions about how technology may have adversely affected our world.
Though I lived through this era in our history and was concerned about all of the bombings, somehow I missed Ted Kaczynski's reasoning for as to why he felt so compelled to act in the way he did....
This miniseries is doing a terrific job of telling that story.
I gotta say, that sometimes I'm bothered by allot of way we as a society depend upon computers, or our cell phones and the like, and just how that technology has changed our lives during my lifetime.... Ted Kaczynski, who was a Harvard grad with a huge IQ, saw that trend beginning long before anyone realized this was happening and he took it very personally...
Say what you will but this reclusive guy was spot on about allot of it....As was the FBI Agent who profiled him and brought him to justice...
This series is a real eye opener....Check it out!
That all may well be true -- but how did he connect that with killing people? What was the motive?
Ted Kaczynski's premise was that we were losing our freedom and becoming a slave to technology....
Guess he was upset that North Western University wouldn't publish his academic papers on the subject and that's what set him off?
He was lashing out at the establishment and his bombs were aimed at those that he felt were responsible...
He was sick....no question...You have to be sick to want to kill someone....or at very least, driven to that..
But it's a pretty interesting subject when you consider that many folks are just now starting to realize how addicted we have become as a society to the point where we must know each others whereabouts on Twitter and follow this...(granted some people more so than others)...but for many it's an obsession...
One thing that made me think was this scene where Fitz, the FBI agent, reveals to Ted Kaczynski in one of his prison visits about driving his car late at night and stopping at a red light.....with no traffic whatsoever around....and how he had felt that he was obedient to that technology.... And another scene where Fits is told that his correct profile was garbage by his superiors....Much in the way that Ted Kaczynski had been told his ideas were garbage as well....
You wonder really....what's different here?
It was quite interesting and eye opening in the way it was portrayed....