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Ted Kaczynski
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But what first motivated me wasn’t anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.
— Interview with Earth First! in Administrative Maximum Facility Prison, Florence, Colorado, USA, (June 1999)
Ted Kaczynski
American domestic, mathematician and anarchist (1942–2023)
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Lived 1942–2023, aged 81United States
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A mathematics prodigy who walked away from academia in 1969 to live in a cabin without electricity, then murdered three people and injured 23 others in a 17-year mail bombing campaign targeting what he saw as technological civilization's assault on wilderness and human freedom.
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Theodore John Kaczynski was born May 22, 1942, and showed early brilliance in mathematics before abandoning his academic career in 1969 for a reclusive primitive life. In 1971 he moved to a remote cabin without electricity or running water near Lincoln, Montana, learning survival skills and seeking self-sufficiency. After witnessing the destruction of the wilderness around him, he concluded that living in nature was becoming impossible and turned to terrorism, beginning a nationwide mail bombing campaign in 1978 that would span 17 years and become the FBI's longest and most expensive investiga…
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Ted Kaczynski
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The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
— "Introduction", paragraph 1
Ted Kaczynski
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Recently I camped in a paradise like glacial cirque. At evening, beautiful singing of birds was ruined by the obscene roar of jet planes.
— Journal (May 1985)
Ted Kaczynski
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My motive for what I am going to do is simply personal revenge.
— Journal (April 6, 1971)
Ted Kaczynski
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Just then came a major turning point in my life. Like a Phoenix, I burst from the ashes of my despair to a glorious new hope.
— Memoir, describing his decision in 1966 to become a serial killer
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