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The Sunday Read: ‘The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber’

The Sunday Read: ‘The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber’

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Online, there is a name for the experience of finding sympathy
with Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber: Tedpilling. To be Tedpilled
means to read Paragraph 1 of Kaczynski’s manifesto, its assertion
that the mad dash of technological advancement since the
Industrial Revolution has “made life unfulfilling,” “led to
widespread psychological suffering” and “inflicted severe damage
on the natural world,” and think, Well, sure.

Since Kaczynski’s death by suicide in a federal prison in North
Carolina nearly two years ago, the taboo surrounding the figure
has been weakening. This is especially true on the right, where
pessimism and paranoia about technology — largely the province of
the left not long ago — have spread on the heels of the
coronavirus pandemic and efforts to police speech on social media
platforms.

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