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Posted: **Sat Jun 10, 2023 2:16 pm**

Earlier today, Dr. Ted Kaczynski entered immortality at the federal "supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado at age 81.

With a measured IQ in the top 0.5 percentile of humankind, he graduated from Harvard in mathematics at age 20 and then earned a Ph.D. at Michigan while winning the Sumner B. Myers Prize for Michigan's best mathematics dissertation of the year. The genius Allen Shields called Kacyznski's dissertation "the best I have ever read" and said not more than 12 people living on Earth probably understood it.

Kaczynski taught at Michigan for four years before resigning and moving to rural Montana where he spent the next 20 years working on his magnum opus Industrial Society and Its Future. He was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to four life terms to be served at ADX Florence.

Posted: **Sat Jun 10, 2023 2:20 pm**

Industrial Society and Its Future had more influence on my outlook than anything else I've ever read

Posted: **Sat Jun 10, 2023 2:20 pm**

Poor guy.

Had a lot of good thinking going on, but erred in the idea that one man acting alone could change things. Would have made a lot more difference if he got back in the world and spent all his time promoting the book.

Posted: **Sat Jun 10, 2023 3:22 pm**

Saxi's spirit animal died? I'm sorry bro.

Posted: **Sat Jun 10, 2023 4:42 pm**

Is that the book where he cries about how roads are built for cars and that's bad because cars are technology?

Posted: **Sat Jun 10, 2023 9:06 pm**

Industrial Society and Its Future had more influence on my outlook than anything else I've ever read

So you became an anti-civ. Are you one that wants to hurry the civilization collapse?

Posted: **Sat Jun 10, 2023 10:33 pm**

GaryDenton wrote:
Industrial Society and Its Future had more influence on my outlook than anything else I've ever read

So you became an anti-civ. Are you one that wants to hurry the civilization collapse?

ISIF is not anti civilization. It's not even anti technology. It's against what Kaczynski calls "organization dependent technology." It also analyzes the human condition and correctly diagnoses the malaise of the species.

Posted: **Sun Jun 11, 2023 2:34 am**

All this discussion ignores the fact that Ted Kaczynski killed at least 3 people and injured many more. That is why he was imprisoned.

Posted: **Sun Jun 11, 2023 8:02 am**

jusplay4fun wrote:All this discussion ignores the fact that Ted Kaczynski killed at least 3 people and injured many more. That is why he was imprisoned.

Nobody is ignoring it. It's understood that he was a very flawed person. That shouldn't blind you to his thinking.

Posted: **Sun Jun 11, 2023 12:10 pm**

Dukasaur wrote:
jusplay4fun wrote:All this discussion ignores the fact that Ted Kaczynski killed at least 3 people and injured many more. That is why he was imprisoned.

Nobody is ignoring it. It's understood that he was a very flawed person. That shouldn't blind you to his thinking.

Capt. Obvious MUST fulfill his destiny and point out the obvious.

It’s his sole purpose.

Posted: **Sun Jun 11, 2023 12:48 pm**

He was too brilliant for this world.

Consider the hypothetical case of a man who can have anything he wants just by wishing for it. Such a man has power, but he will develop serious psychological problems. At first he will have a lot of fun, but by and by he will become acutely bored and demoralized. Eventually he may become clinically depressed. History shows that leisured aristocracies tend to become decadent. This is not true of fighting aristocracies that have to struggle to maintain their power. But leisured, secure aristocracies that have no need to exert themselves usually become bored, hedonistic and demoralized, even though they have power. This shows that power is not enough. One must have goals toward which to exercise one’s power.

Posted: **Sun Jun 11, 2023 1:43 pm**

jimboston wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:
jusplay4fun wrote:All this discussion ignores the fact that Ted Kaczynski killed at least 3 people and injured many more. That is why he was imprisoned.

Nobody is ignoring it. It's understood that he was a very flawed person. That shouldn't blind you to his thinking.

Capt. Obvious MUST fulfill his destiny and point out the obvious.

It’s his sole purpose.

Let's point out the obvious: Ted Kaczynski was crazy. He killed others, who were essentially innocent, to emphasize his point.

And jimb LIVES on CC to point out that I provide profound contributions and perspicacious comments; jimb contributes insults. I help lead a clan on CC; jimb leads a lonely life wallowing in self-made misery. btw CFC jimb, I am a Major, at least at the moment.

And don;t read further, jimb, or your head will explode, again.

Theodore J. Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, who attacked academics, businessmen and random civilians with homemade bombs from 1978 to 1995, killing three people and injuring 23 with the stated goal of fomenting the collapse of the modern social order — a violent spree that ended after what was often described as the longest and most costly manhunt in American history — died on Saturday in a federal prison medical center in Butner, N.C. He was 81.

A spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Mr. Kaczynski was found unresponsive in his cell early in the morning. The bureau did not specify a cause, but three people familiar with the situation said he died by suicide.

The bureau had announced his transfer to the medical facility in 2021.

Mr. Kaczynski traced a singular path in American life: lonely boy genius to Harvard-trained star of pure mathematics, to rural recluse, to notorious murderer, to imprisoned extremist.

In the public eye, he fused two styles of violence: the periodic targeting of the demented serial killer, and the ideological fanaticism of the terrorist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/us/ted-kaczynski-dead.html

Posted: **Sun Jun 11, 2023 5:24 pm**

Leading a clan and having a ‘high rank’ on CC are now accomplishments!

… also “profound contributions”…

:lol:

Posted: **Sun Jun 11, 2023 7:25 pm**

jimboston wrote:Leading a clan and having a ‘high rank’ on CC are now accomplishments!

… also “profound contributions”…

better than your insults, corporal

and what ELSE can you point to, as your accomplishments on CC? And how many nuts and bolts did you sell last week?

NOTHING on any of these points; just crickets :shock:

Posted: **Mon Jun 12, 2023 7:26 am**

You’re just so perspicacious… it’s amazing. Give yourself a pat on the back!

Posted: **Mon Jun 12, 2023 10:08 am**

jimboston wrote:You’re just so perspicacious… it’s amazing. Give yourself a pat on the back!

I don;t [sic] need to; others already do that. :lol:

Posted: **Mon Jun 12, 2023 12:32 pm**

jusplay4fun wrote:
jimboston wrote:You’re just so perspicacious… it’s amazing. Give yourself a pat on the back!

I don;t [sic] need to; others already do that.

Yeah… especially everyone in this forum!

The fact that you would use that word in a self-referential sentence is astounding.
If I knew nothing else about you that one sentence would communicate EVERYTHING I need to know.

Posted: **Mon Jun 12, 2023 2:52 pm**

jimboston wrote:
jusplay4fun wrote:
jimboston wrote:You’re just so perspicacious… it’s amazing. Give yourself a pat on the back!

I don;t [sic] need to; others already do that.

Yeah… especially everyone in this forum!

The fact that you would use that word in a self-referential sentence is astounding.
If I knew nothing else about you that one sentence would communicate EVERYTHING I need to know.

No, not in some online place, but in REAL life, jimmyboi. I guess you would have NO idea how that feels. :roll:

Posted: **Mon Jun 12, 2023 6:15 pm**

So you don’t think defining yourself as “perspicacious” is a bit, I don’t know… conceited?

Posted: **Tue Jun 13, 2023 12:24 am**

You're you;re pathetic, jimb. You are a sad little man with nothing to offer CC except insults. SAD.

Posted: **Tue Jun 13, 2023 2:09 am**

Could you two f*ck already and get it over with?

Posted: **Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:01 am**

DirtyDishSoap wrote:Could you two f*ck already and get it over with?

Though JP4 is extremely perspicacious, he has no insight into the fact that he’s a total bottom boy.

He also has no insight into the fact that he sounds like a cocky POS.

Posted: **Tue Jun 20, 2023 3:59 am**

jimboston wrote:You’re just so perspicacious… it’s amazing. Give yourself a pat on the back!

I need no more pats on my back; I get already plenty in RL. Thanks anyway, jimboi.

It's It;s as if jimb discovered a new toy and can;t let it go. I doubt jimb even KNEW the word before I used it. Now he is having so much FUN with it. Let me introduce jimb to a NEW word he can have FUN with: JP is SOOOO percipient, but jimb is NOT. =D>

Posted: **Tue Jun 20, 2023 6:33 am**

I don’t know whether you’re Capt. Obvious or Capt. Oblivious?

I guess in your case it’s possible to be both simultaneously.

Posted: **Tue Jun 20, 2023 3:01 pm**

jimboston wrote:I don’t know whether you’re Capt. Obvious or Capt. Oblivious?

I guess in your case it’s possible to be both simultaneously.

jimb, jimb.....

Before you TRY to make a BAD joke, know the meaning of the words you use. Being obvious means one CANNOT also be oblivious; one is not oblivious to the obvious. WoW..! :roll:

Shame, shame, jimb. AND SAD, too. :roll:

You are indeed a sad little man.

oblivious
adjective
1. not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around one.

obvious
adjective
1. easily perceived or understood; clear, self-evident, or apparent.

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