Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber) | Mental Health & Personality | MMPI Results
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- This video answers the questions: Can I analyze the Ted Kaczynski case (aka the Unabomber)? What are the mental health and personality factors at work in this case? What do the results of his MMPI indicate?
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I wrote Ted Kaczynski a letter and he actually sent one back to me. He asked me to plant a tree for him in the forrest.
Just curious -- what else did he say? I wrote to him also (long long ago) but didn't hear back. I found his manuscript fascinating and felt a bit sorry for him, never being able to establish a relationship and also because of the bullying and psychological experimentation on him. Wonder if he might have developed more normally without those two experiences...and whether that put him over the edge?!
@@carolynrisen6212 I know he’s in prison and he was when you wrote him, but I still don’t think I’d be comfortable receiving mail back from someone who made history by mailing bombs to ppl 😂. Not that I’m worried it’ll be a bomb, but it’s just make me uncomfortable.
@@Win_R6 Yeah, I know, Secret Uzi...I've thought about that since then. But what could possibly go wrong when he's under lock and key? Such an intelligent person...a shame how he went completely awry!
@@percival5568 thats me!
my dad is good friends with him! he even published his book
I’ve been waiting for this Ted talk.
Ted talk I think you only get 15 minutes. I think there's too much for 15 minutes.
@@robertthomas5906 : you missed the wordplay...
Ted or TedX? More like TedXplosion!
Nice ....
Can someone shed light as to whether or not his brother or the $1mil? 😶
Kaczynski said that the turning point for him was when he went on a hike to his favourite nature spot and found that developers had built a road through it.
HOLY $%#%.
SWIM, was 14 years old and had a clubhouse in the woods, in a large tree 20 feet up. He saw that they were turning it into a construction area. He burned the tractor in the woods, at midnight while the workers were off.
So, SWIM, has something in common with the UNA.
@@ChristoCurrents "Someone Who Is Me - SWIM"
@@perfidiousalbion9975 "Some White Igloo Man."
@@jenniferrock1585 it is the answer , they will never stop doing that
It was revenge , driven by being bitch slapped in college by his professors and classmates 🤔
Saw a meme that had his face on it and the caption said, "Yeah I'm mail voting"
Lmao
"Ted Kaczynski at Home Depot. I wonder what he'll buy"
I shared it 😭
Yes yes!!😁🥳
Ppl in America who have been in Prison, lose their right to vote.
His manifesto is so accurate, it’s scary. There is nothing delusional about his description of modern man and his forced conditioning to a standard of life that all too often result in depression and frustration.
Kaczynski has written two books from prison, they're excellent: Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution
"You should read Ted Kaczynski's two books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution!
He raised some good points but my thinking goes like this. The environmental and humanitarian and problems caused by technology are much older than the industrial revolution and go all the way back to agriculture. That means we would need to be hunter gatherers, not Amish, in order to escape it, but who wants to be a hunter gatherer? Today's hunter gatherers have no art or science.
"If you think the government overregulates you now, just wait until the government starts regulating the genetic content of your children." - manifesto
@@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954 if you were a hunter gatherer you wouldn't mind being one
I wonder why people skip his whole manifest, which, in essence, from my point of view, is pretty on point. Diagnosing him with modern terminology destroys his work. It played a huge part in his life and thus should be mentioned. He poured his ideas and visions into it and shouldn't be overlooked. He was a genius when it comes to analysing society.
Because people don’t want to face the reality that 1. He wasn’t crazy. 2. He was right about what he wrote.
It is probably to complicated for most people. It is also wrong. (There is a genius born everyday and they all live on RUclips.)
@@trevorrol7930 too complicated for you it seems
@@jasonrose1758 Yes, terrorism is too complicated for me. I don't have autism either. (There is a genius born everyday and they all live on RUclips.)
@@trevorrol7930 But local handpicked and statewide terrorism is perfectly within you 1cell remit lol.
Kaczynski is one of the few criminals that I really feel was pretty much made, not a product of his own bad choices. That poor bastard was almost deliberately turned into a pathological loner and loose cannon by self-proclaimed "experts" -- the people who totally isolated him from his mother as an infant and the rat bastards who designed that "study" and then put a CHILD through it. It was a cruel enough experience for a young adult. College student or not, he was a mere adolescent at the time. The people who did that to him should be in jail.
Abusive parents, while inflicting damage, are typically mentally ill themselves. But for a bunch of highly-educated people to subject a child to what they did to Ted Kaczynski is flat out criminal. They have absolutely no excuse whatsoever.
And didn't they lie to him during that study about his mom and wanted to isolate him from his family? I felt bad for Ted and his brother.
Cemetery of Choice Iatrogenic Criminality?
@@dewilew2137 That's a good term for it.
I think you'll find most people have something either neurologicaly or chemically wrong or fked up in their childhood.
THIS. All of it.
I've read his manifesto and he makes an excellent case for how modern technology is controlling all of us. The technology portion of his manifesto didn't seem crazy at all. Rather it explained the craziness of modern industrial civilization and where it is inevitably leading to.
You're right, we should just go back to the stone ages where people die at 40, and have no treatments for disorder or disease, women should also be considered a lower tier like they were in the olden days, and people should be allowed to kill whoever they want.
Sounds like a great world, totally, the modern era is "crazy".
Technology isn’t good or bad, it’s a tool
The problem is capitalism and how our society is organized
@@Kelis98 You obviously didn't read his book did you.
It’s sad this bit was misinterpreted as a delusion. It kinda hurt when Grande said technology controlling people would count as a delusion
@@Kelis98 Capitalism is the right to have things. If you aren't a capitalist you are asking someone else to control your life, or worse think you know what is best for others. If you are against people being able to trade and go about commerce on their own terms then you are a just another authoritarian despot. Stupid commies.
His high IQ could fluctuate from sky high 160 when his brain was in its prime, solving math problems every day, through lazy times in the forest, to depressive surroundings of jail. Going to Harvard at the age 16 certainly indicates an IQ of 160.
@@anthonyconde7604 he smarter than you and me had a terrible time with people would of been some one if they check his mental condition.fine line between genius and insane
I believe I read tht IQ doesn’t fluctuate much, especially another deviation. The aptitude to solve math problems was in him then and probably after his PhD.
"Lazy times in the forest"
IQ scores have gone up during the last 100 years (Flynn effect). Getting a 160 in the 1940s is like a 115 today.
@@evanb4189 Maybe like 3 points per decade so it would mean 136.
I believe Ted was telling the truth when he said he would stop the bombing.
He stated that if his essay was published, that the bombings would cease. I believe that the reason that particular bomb was made was just in case his demands were ignored.
"If you can't trust Ted Kaczynski, who can you trust?"
no matter what state of mind he wasn't a liar .they believed it to ! there not gonna look like losers over human life ! just my opinion! i had to say opinion before someone else did , gotta change my last name , lol
No basis for that belief other than opinion. You could also believe in the tooth fairy.
If you read his manifesto.. you'd know this guy was pretty on-point lol.
Yup. It's something hard to read though, and accept as truth. I feel as if that's why people cower away and alienate anyone who might hold beliefs like this. If it weren't for the bombings, maybe people would look into it more. But, if he had never done the bombings, people would've probably never batted an eye at his manifesto.
Yep. He forewarned about the evils of corporations, mass media, corrupt groups like antifa/blm, government overreach & environmental destruction.
@@targetedindividualsresearch true, wouldn't want to harm anyone, tho his manifesto wouldn't have gotten much attn otherwise
I thought so too. Except for the killing part .
@Archive of Sv3rige @FBI over here, we found one
"Some academics have high intelligence but no common sense."
We see that every single day in the news.
No and yes.
But are the ones on the news genuine academics. Just because a person has a degree doesn't mean they are an intellectual.
@@reswobiandreaming3644 This is an important point we are losing more and more sight of in this "age of experts." Even if a person is quite bright and has done work both good and original, doesn't mean their every idea is completely true, much less so for the rest of that person's life. One can even be pretty smart and pretty stupid at the same time.
Common sense is what animals have.
Ive noticed dumb people have no cents ($) .
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@@mariebernier3076 Corbett report
They took a high level genius and melted his brain with MKultra experiments. What, exactly, did they expect to happen?
Imagine if MKUltra hadn't melted his brain we might've had a badass trans woman in the Mathematics department in Berkeley
@Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus The Unwashed, low iq masses and its consequences have been a disaster for the intellectually gifted.
Ted himself has said multiple times that the "experiments" had little effect, since it was mostly just a survey where they asked some uncomftable questions at most. The srudents at harvard where not experimented on or had to take any substance, all this allegation does is lazily try to distract from Teds message, which to this day no one can disprove. Its especialy funny when these retards then talk about "muh progress" he could have made (which is literaly the thing Ted tells us is wrong with the world).
Does anyone have any SOURCES to indicate or determine 1: he was a part of the actual MKultra program 2. If he was dosed with LSD?
@@nervesinapattern7261 wow must be tough
I'm familiar with his mathematical work. 160-170 is very plausible
This guy misses the mark sometimes
0.003% are IQ 160 or higher
"If ya can't trust a guy who sends explosives all around the country, who can ya trust?" I'm dyin'!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
No, it's far better to put your trust in the "authorities" who send millions of tons, all over the world, at the expense of your taxes, freedoms, and life....Ted Kaczynski is a man order of magnitude more brilliant than those academicians, psychotic-therapists...and far far above the "intelligence" agents and government "officials". I far more support Kaczynski than those that are rioting, looting and murdering, the exact OPPOSITE of what Dr. King's words, and deeds....yet they so much deserve our sympathy and support.....way too many snowflakes around these days.
We always give terrorists the benefit of the doubt, but Ted let all of us down.
No we should trust the Jeffery Epstein’s that run this world.
Kaczynski has written two books from prison, they're excellent: Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution
So his motives were "leave me the hell alone!" I can relate to that.
andy pete I can too, but I don’t go around blowing up people to emphasize my point.
@@jeanettewaverly2590 & Andy Pete ... there's a lot about Ted's story that's tragic--for everyone even observing, like us! The Doc here was being as grounded in "facts" (documentation by entities considered in authority) as much as possible. Something happened to this little genius boy that NEVER should've happened!--that's what we could really use to learn about!
Atomic Sonic Amen to that.
@@AtomicSonicHalos A few things happened to Ted Kaczynski, from feeling alone when he needed his mother - due to hospitalisation as an infant, apparently - to allegedly being subjected to verbal abuse from either one or both his parents (likely his father from what I have read to date), being too gifted to remain in the same class as his peers (age-wise) and so being put up about 3 grades which he hated, something he referred to as horrific and which made him subject to bullying by the older kids. Then he went to University at 16 and unfortunately he was subjected to a series of intense experiments designed to see how well he (and other students selected) could be broken down by someone they trusted who was in a position of authority, a test designed to aid the CIA but which damaged Ted permanently, leaving him understandably paranoid, cynical and angry at others plus feeling unheard and understood.
If only he left every one else the hell alone.
“Industrial society and it’s future” Is a good precursor read to the works of Jacque Ellul who wrote “the technological society”. A book that is well worth reading
Ellul had a huge influence on Ted.
also Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology
Oddly enough, everyone seems to be able to understand the fury and frustration he clearly felt. Unlike a war criminal, he is clearly “one of us,” and it’s regrettable that he was tortured by psychological experiments, upon which I lay all responsibility.
It is quite often the case that mental health professionals don't want to imply that psychological experiments can torture people. I am not saying this is necessarily the case, but I have noticed the frequent dimissiveness of the mental health profession to the existence of severe trauma from psychiatric confinement and seclusion. And they punish those that leave mental health services and they criticise those that make websites and campaigns against punitive psychiatry, except they don't look to more severe cases where people are chained etc, and extrapolate to what punitive psychiatry in a place like the US or UK might do. I went on a tangent there.
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Kaczynski was brilliant. It's too bad he didn't stick to just writing. He could have conveyed his message without violence.
If Kaczynski had published his manifesto without committing acts of violence, virtually no one would have read it. Even after gaining infamy through his crimes, there's still a small minority of people who have read his manifesto. Of the people who've read it, I suspect none are in a position to act on it; Kaczynski was also diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, so there's no telling how genuine his opinions were, either. His writings could merely reflect his delusions caused by psychosis.
It's too bad he was caught.
I wonder what he's been thinking in prison all these years watching technology's effect on society. Probably "I WAS RIGHT."
It’s a pretty tragic case, if you really think about it. It sounds like he actively sought help multiple times but incompetent professionals did nothing to attempt/weren’t able to really help him, and in turn his mental issues essentially ended up destroying him.
@@reelgangstazskip I disagree. Because most people think he was crazy and won't even read it. Had he not done the bombings, he could have actually used technology to convey his message.
Modern technology is controlling us!,,, Ted was right about EVERYTHING
Meet you at the hardware store...
Most people can agree with this statement, at least to an extent, yet would probably vilify Ted if this were to happen today.
Ted was dead wrong about the solution, killing and maiming a few random people is obviously not going to make the world a better place.
@@damonthomas8955 it wasn't meant as a solution, it was meant to bring attention to his ideology.
@@kvdrr Oh, thank goodness then...
Kaczynski didn't think technology was controlling him but that it controls us all. That is a terrible error, Dr. Grande.
Thank you for being one of the few to notice this--pretty significant mistake considering that this misunderstanding is the only grounds for their diagnosing him as delusional!
It was David’s wife that recognized that the writing seemed like Ted’s. David, naturally, struggled to believe that it was his brother at first.
Yuuup
That's how I remember it.
No it wasn't. She didn't even read it. She just hated Ted.
That is correct according to my research. It wasn't the writing itself, it was the content that convinced her.
Think about it. He was starting to be more open about what he thought and threatened to reveal all. Who would have suffered for that? Who used to be pretty radical politically but now was in a nice successful job and had recently married a woman he did not want to reveal his radical past to.
If you can’t trust Kaczynski, who can you trust?! Lol 🤣
That is the power of things like hollywood fantasy when the reality is people or groups seldom stop what they are doing even after satisfying demands. That is why most countries don't nego with terrorists.
High iq doesn't mean that person is killer
It simply means person is not stupid or dumb
However in todays society to survive and socilize with humans is neccessary to be drunk as awake and sane a normal healthy person can not cope with insane world we are living in.
This is not news yet some are in different area zones and some people are not alchoholic and alchohol drinkers, this must be due to something
Think about it, how some homes are happier and luckier than others? I think people in general are not stupid. We most don't talk about it or spread horrific stories on purpose terrifying people we live with
Some people are just jerks that's all, however terrifying society isn't it a crime?
Children are taught of dangers in Schools, news advise us of things that happen on the outside world , to be vigilent and obsirvent.
Killers are everywhere, just if somebody has a high iq doesn't mean that person is a killer however a human smart enough to avoid such other human species
Survivor
Survivor doesn't mean criminal, it certainly doesn't mean killer.
I trust jess
Donald Trump?
You wouldn't get it
Ted is an actual genius, it’s so sad this amazing intellect has gone to waste.
Yes, if he had used his genius mind for the benefit of mankind instead of fear and violence, he may have come up with a cure for cancer or AIDS. Too bad.
I think there's a lot more the man could have contributed to educating the masses and maybe ultimately shaping society, but the fact I can listen to his manifesto on RUclips and we are familiar with him is extraordinary and not even close to a waste.
The mk ultra brianwashing def traumatized him
It has not, millions of zoomers are now awake to the technocratic nightmare planned for humanity.
@A named Dwarf Between two ages; America's role in the technetronic era - Zbigniew Brzezinski
I have an unhealthy appreciation for his manifesto. Obviously it cannot be separated from who wrote it. But if it could be, I believe MANY would appreciate it.
You need act it not just appreciate it.
Exactly. The main reason people have such a reaction to these ideas is because Ted wrote it. If this was from an anonymous author, more people would give it a chance and see that it makes a lot of sense. While I don't think industrialization and technology are the only cause of societal decline, but I definitely think it plays it's part in it.
@@Tehz1359 You might be right, but I don't think Ted would agree lol. Halfway through, he actually makes the comment that nobody would care about his writing if it were not delivered with violence. I'm not sure if that's a reference to him, but he clearly says that in his manifesto.
That was actually one of the more concerning undertones of his writing: He saw violence as the most primitive (but most direct) way to exercise freedom.
The upsetting part is that he was apparently 100% correct lol
Whatever, Marxist in the past killed milions of people, but Marxism is still lectured in academia nowadays and people appreciating it don't have such moral doubts.
@@Tehz1359 you're wrong. Nothing he said is original. And what do you mean "give it a chance"?? As if we're all one brain doing the same things.
Dr. Grande I was laughing when you blantly said some academics had a lot of intelligence but no common sense in 7:37.
😂😂😂
Valerik 13 Yep, that’s academia in a nutshell.
it's referred to as the "Ivory Tower" for a reason. Many I've met don't think they HAVE to have common sense. That's for the peasants.
You know I've met a lot of people that have high levels of intelligence when it comes to academics, but literally no common sense. and yes there is a difference between academic intelligence and common Sense. It is the same concept as people having different areas of intelligence. Musical intelligence, athletic, etc. so yes there are some people that can read a book and remember it word for word, but have no idea which end to light a candle.
*blatantly*
He didn't say academics as such - he said it of highly intelligent people. I would agree with his comment. I have met many people with a high intelligence and at best they are eccentric. I can see that at worst they could be criminally abnormal
Read "Industrial society and its future". I've yet to see anyone answer his arguments.
Completely agree. Ignoring his actions and looking at the Manifesto alone, he presents great arguments and analysis. I think its a work everyone should read
The only thing he was wrong about was thinking there's anything we can do to stop it.
Ryan Dawson has a few streams where he talks about this. He does agree with much of his manifest, and he brings many good arguments into the debate.
Ermine Starfish: Ted was spot on - technology is controlling us - e.g. people check their mobiles every few seconds and are totally addicted. Watch two people for example at a table in a cafe - each person will be intently looking at their cell phone instead of communicating. Technology is controlling us - AI will be the culmination of this project.
Is that the name of his manifesto?
A very interesting TODD Talk about TED. I saw the documentary about Ted, the Unabomber, on Netflix recently. Thanks for making this video. I really appreciate it and enjoyed it, Dr. Grande 😃🇳🇱
Reading the Unabombers Manifesto today....it seems Ted was correct in a great many things.
All his "good points" are just alienation, its low hanging fruit that anyone can point out, fascists doing all the time
And, it's poorly written especially from someone with a genius IQ. Would love to read it after a professional edit job.
Maximiliano Madrigal fascist are right
Imagine beeing filtered by Kaczynski lmao
Ted isn't crazy. He's incredibly smart, and his manifesto is incredibly accurate.
It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises.
Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the police or the military), the system maintains its monopoly on physical force and thus keeps all power in its own hands.
Kaczynski has written two books from prison, they're excellent: Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution .😊
I recommend reading his essay.
I have. For the most part he is correct. Too much dependence on technology will have terrible consequences for us.
@@devinwatson4594 Free Ted!!
it's a brilliant piece. fascinating and hard to argue with many of the main points. he is definitely mentally ill though. that's the bit that he or his supporters won't or can't acknowledge
@@NC-ck5oj It's really hard to conceptualize oneself as a supporter of his. I think of him as someone who kind've expanded on jacques ellul's work made a great essay,then went out and sullied himself by killing. I sometimes wonder if he just would have waited a couple decades he would have far more impact as a RUclips philosophy personality lol.
Could you do a video about Shallon Lesters channel? She basically is a life coach and gives psychological advice but seems to give harmful information to her viewers. She is very entertaining/alluring and has even admitted to being a diagnosed narcissist. Could you fact check the information on her channel? Thanks!
I predict Dr. Grande may cover this not to diagnose Lester but to discuss the issues related to RUclipsrs who try to diagnose celebs and/or offer counseling advice to the general public without any training.
Fine, okay, but I'm commenting because of a
completely different reason: I want to complain about the LENGTH of the Dr.'s videos. They are
TOO LONG!! I've spoken to my relatives and friends about this, and although no one I know
watches his channel, my son-in-law stated that
he won't click on ANY video that's over five minutes long!! I can relate! The Dr. needs to
cut the jabber drastically!!! Unless it's a subject I'm already interested in, I don't watch! Simple
as that. These days, I suppose, people have
time to listen to him ramblings - but when life
returns to normal (whatever "normal" is,) they
are not going to sit down and listen to him speak. They won't have time! I have been very
annoyed by a conflict between thinking "Hey,
that sounds interesting - then I check out the
time - and I think, "But I don't have the spare
time to listen! It's over a half-hour long!" Would
it be possible for him to begin to keep his videos under, say, five minutes!? I guarantee
he would snare a whole sh*t pot full of future
subscribers! I can only hope he stumbles onto my comment and tries it out! I know he is a brilliant and ethical doctor, and I have no other
complaints about him, but please, Dr. Grande,
just try it and see what pops!!
Nancy Ayers do you have to “watch” the video? He’s literally sitting there talking, you can do what you need to do and simply listen to the video. It’s really not complicated.
@@nancyayers6355 I don't think he would sacrifice quality for more viewers. 5 minutes is not enough time to properly discuss the topics he covers. It's possible he would actually lose the viewers that watch because of the research and professional insight that require a longer format video.
Time for Nancy to find a new channel.
David Kaczynski is a published poet. Some of his work deals with the internal struggle he had being related to someone who was so troubled. Pretty interesting
Good analysis
@Jesper Jansen David really got the short end of the stick in that family.
@@JohnSmith-ds7oi Did he?
He should feel bad for destroying a hero.
@@JeanDeaux666 Your profile picture matches your comment.
Correction of a little detail: David wasn't the one who recognized the writing on the manifesto, his wife was. She had never met Ted, she just thought it sounded like him from his letters and the stories his family told. That's how much of an obsessive maniac Kaczynski was.
Yes, I saw a documentary about the Unabomber and his sister in law told her husband, that sounds like something your brother would say
I think Ted said the only reason he took the Asst Professorship at Berkeley was to fund his eventual move into the woods.
"You should read Ted Kaczynski's two books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution!
Perhaps you could make a video on the mental health and personality of Norwegian massmurderer Anders Behring Breivik? I think he actually copied a lot of the material in his own manifesto from Kaczynski. Also, his mental health were evaluated twice, by to different teams, and resulted in a public debate over the value and validity of psychological evaluation of criminals.
Please yes!
BLOCH FORLAG yes!
This would be incredible!
I'm interested in this too.
Martin Bryant, the Port Arthur killer in Tasmania, Australia, who at the time in 1996, set a world record for mass killings, since beaten several time, would be a good subject of study.
Thank you Dr for all of your hard work! I appreciate it so much! I was raised by my grandma who was a psychologist so I really appreciate your hard work as a Dr here ❤️
I feel like you missed the whole thing about his LSD tests at Harvard
And how is that relevant to the question of his personality?
@@maxkho00 He was a victim of a research project --via deception --which some theorize caused him to devolve into the unabomber.
@@maxkho00 How could being a victim of MK Ultra possibly affect someone's personality, right?
@A C u do know when he was if fifth grade he had a IQ of 167 that is why Harvard thought he was gonna be the next great mind and this is where he created this idea that AI artificial intelligence would take over
So he didn't want AI to happen.
Ted wasnt "criminal", he was trying to warn us about dangers of tech.
Now, people are fatter than ever, lonlier, less healthy, suicides are on the constant rise, antidepressants usage is on the rise, natality is becoming lower and lower, and my greatest fear, AI could end us all. I truly fears that we passed point of no return.
Killing people is criminal.
You should read Ted Kaczynski's two books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution!
@@baizawai The lie of the social contracts get you ninehundred thousand million timesfold more likely to get ræped by the system than an entirely unique human. Have fun, i love getting cancer and mental diseases and being gaslighted too!
@@baizawai no
it's true, his message ressonates so well today, yet he was called scizhophrenic for thinking that way, even though we now know he was probably right all along
I love the straightforward breakdown and analysis, and the lack of obnoxious background music thank you sir, great format you've got a new fan!
Kaczynski has written two books from prison, they're excellent: Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution
@@davidochieng9296 He has a fascinating mind. Shame put it to bad use in the end
Did Ted’s brother receive the 1 million dollar reward from the FBI, for turning him in?
I’m pretty sure he did and donated it to victims
@@rickavory Excellent way to throw suspicion off of him.
@@annewandering I’m not even saying that there isn’t some deep state shit going on. Im just saying the first person to be saying shit like that would be someone like John Mcaffee. A guy who hid in the sand for hours after the police showed up to his house when there was no warrant for arrest. This guy was addicted to and manufactured drugs.
@@annewandering Don't be Stupid. Oh, too late.
@@rickavory what are you talking about
He was ahead of his time. Today we're all tracked by technology.
I don't know if you mentioned it, but when he was a baby he was at a hospital for quite some time due to an allergy and he was away from any human contact. His mother said that when he returned home, he was a different baby: wouldn't cry, seek her affection and seemed to be oblivious to her presence.
Poor kid
I think it is because he's mildly autistic. Everything, especially his IQ, first the bill.
we've learned a lot about what children need to thrive since then.
nowadays babies in the nicu are constantly stimulated and comforted both by medical staff and by their families. i know this because at my job i process high dollar medical bills. when we get medical records for nicu stays, we sometimes get the nurse's logs. so every time a nurse would visit a patient they note exactly what was done.
which means several pages for each day of service containing notes that the patient's vitals were collected and the patient received "low light and quiet conditions, with blanket and pacifier provided. stimulation with song and rhythmic movement." they are held and sung to as part of their medical treatment.
not only because it's necessary for their development as healthy humans, but also because of basic human empathy. (when it's a toddler or child, they also receive play therapy and the notes are extremely specific, down to which toys they select.)
it's genuinely tragic that a several month old infant would suffer pain and fear from a sudden ailment and then be left alone in a bassinet for days. even if the baby doesn't grow up to become the unabomber, that's unacceptable.
Yet people, while knowing this has happened to a damaged individual and the ramifications, still judge and blame the damaged adult simply because they haven't been so affected themselves. It baffles me how they are ok with that.
@@zubetpfrom personal experience, i can say it absolutely destroys a human psyche, i hope things are different now...
A couple of factual points: The FBI did claim it had TK on its list of persons of interest, though the name was far down the list. Also, it was TK's sister in law, not his brother David who recognized the peculiarities of TK's writing style.
Concerning the accuracy of the second IQ test, which measured him at about 136 or two SDs above the mean, I would suggest that the original measurement at 160-170 was in fact the closest. It is likely that the decline is connected to his advancing mental disturbance and to stress. I examined one of his published mathematical papers and concluded that he is well into the genius range. There are many bright-normal individuals with IQs in the mid 130s. His colleagues acknowledged at the time that there were only a few people in the world who understood boundary conditions--a rather abstruse field then--as well as TK.
These mental health professionals just love to shit on anyone that they feel morally right in examining under the microscope.
I saw a documentary about the Unabomber and you are right, it was his sister in law, not his brother who suggested that Ted had written that manifesto. Too bad this guy chose to act out with violence and terrorism. With his IQ, maybe he would have found a cure for cancer or AIDS.
I was scored IQ 170 as a teenager, however when I was in the midst of a psychiatric admission, I took several of those rubbish online tests, and I was not in the top
That separation from his mom when he was only a few months old might have caused irreversible damage to his psyche. I've long suspected that many people who go astray in life, particularly those who apparently begin in decent shape as he appears to have done, suffer just such an unrecognized trauma. Some people are much more sensitive than others.
Agree. My son is so extremely sensitive, he actually caused his own personality disorder of schizoid because of how he viewed the painful insincere world. Thankfully with therapy, he was able to see the light again later. But it took an incredible amount of work and proper medication and for a therapist to bring to light the autistic genius that was always at his core.
You forgot he was a victim of 3 years of mk ultra brainwashing
Not the govt torture program in Harvard that's very well known.. okay buddy
Kaczynski has written two books from prison, they're excellent: Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution
Gabor Mate would immediately agree.
This is what I really really miss about college. You speak like a well prepared, and interesting prof. Gonna watch your vids now daily. Learning is fun, not painful.
We have been waiting for this.
Surprised you did not give the more emphasis "Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, was once part of a Harvard experiment on psychological control subsidized by the CIA and known in turn as MK Ultra. Some say he has one of the most brilliant minds." His brother David, who turned him in has always maintained that these tests harmed a very sensitive Ted who might not have acted out if he had never been subjected to this.
This bothers me too, how professionals deny that psychological experiments of that severity can really harm a person, and childhood separation too. Its like how they rarely describe the effects of extreme childhood abuse or severely punitive practices in confinement on a criminal's behaviour.
@@AntimatterBeam8954you can't create a monster and then be surprised if it does monster stuff...
@@Relayzy1 yep definitely
He was so articulate and logical in its presentation of why technology was controlling all of us, that it is really hard for me to see there the signs of a delusion.
Let me help you out here; he blew up complete strangers 😉.
@@b.g.5869 So what? If we find out Isaac Newton was a serial killer does he become wrong?
@@fifiadan It would make him morally wrong obviously. But this is irrelevant to my response. The person I was replying to said they didn't see his Kaczynski was delusional so I reminded him that he sent bombs to people.
You're horribly confused.
@@fifiadan Yes, obviously it would mean he was morally wrong.
Are you on a lead paint chip diet or something?
I get the impression you just learned about the genetic fallacy, don't understand it, but are eager to refer to it.
The genetic fallacy of course has nothing to do with genetics in the sense of DNA etc (this is important to point out when talking to a dunce like you because otherwise the next thing you'd be saying is "What does this have to do with genes?!" etc).
The genetic fallacy occurs when one tries to say a claim is wrong because they're a bad person. The canonical example is that Hitler was a bad person, and vegetarian, therefore vegetarianism is bad; obviously this reasoning doesn't hold water.
Obviously, if Isaac Newton was a serial killer it wouldn't mean his ideas about mathematics and physics were wrong; it would however mean he was morally wrong (i.e. a horrible person).
Kaczynski is objectively a horrible person (morally wrong). This in and of itself doesn't mean his theories about the effect of technology in society are necessarily wrong; it doesn't mean they're correct either of course.
However, this case is different from Hitler and vegetarianism because in the case of Kaczynski his ideas about technology and society directly inspired his homicidal behavior. Therefore while his evil deeds have no bearing on the validity or lack thereof of his rambling screed evaluated in isolation.
However, since his homicidal deeds were directly inspired by his views on technology and society, the latter cannot be completely divorced from the latter. Obviously there's something fundamentally wrong with his world view if he thinks the supposed evils of technology justify killing strangers who have any connection to STEM fields.
You need to understand an idea before you try to apply it.
You're horribly confused.
@@b.g.5869let me help you out here; he got his warning published in the New York Times and Washington Post and here you are talking about him and his ideas 40 years later. You may not agree with his methods, I don’t, but it’s indisputable they worked and there’s nothing delusional about that.
It’s very important to mention that even if he did indeed experience a psychotic disorder, violent acts are very uncommon in people with these diagnoses. In fact, violence is more likely to be committed against people with disorders like schizophrenia than by individuals with schizophrenia.
the MK Ultra experiments more likely than not did give him mental torment, leading to the violence. I believe that he's spot on in the manifesto, though what he did was unnecessary. For this reason, it seems completely unjust to have him incarcerated given that we don't incarcerate people with issues that are out of their control who commit acts of violence. It's futile.
Riley you're VERY wrong.
Hmmn....you do keep banging that drum. I'm not so sure it really is important to keep mentioning it.
I suspect that, even if true, your quoted statistic only applies because such people would already be in an asylum of some sort and they would be violently attacked by other inmates with similar conditions, not by non-psychotic types.
Such people really are a danger to themselves and others and should be confined for the good of all. That's not to be judgemental, simply practical and realistic. Stigma is neither here nor there in the context of mass slaughter.
I’ve seen this soundbite before. What are your sources?
@@MrMatthewhg I have had organic psychosis due to congenital brain damage in my life, and currently medication keeps it at a low level. I agree with you actually - during exacerbations of my psychosis I have been a danger to myself as well as others (others when threatened by them/delusions, I would lash out) and I agree that I should have been sectioned under the mental health act. I should have been confined, however I should not have been abused in the confinement, but that's a more political management factor. It is rare of someone with psychosis / a history of it, to agree that confinement is needed ,but what are you going to do when I'm self harming repeatedly and lashing out at delusions about people? And "violence" , if you cover verbal assault and threatening behaviour, is much more common than if you just include things like grievous bodily harm and actual bodily harm (charges in the UK where I come from).
Let's not forget the fact that he was an unwilling participant in the Harvard LSD study under Timothy Leary
Was he an "emancipated minor" and therefore could sign off on the paperwork??? Unwilling??? please explain?
Trey Woodward It wasn’t Timothy Leary, it was Henry Murray. Stop spreading misinformation.
LSD don't make you go crazy bro
@@waltersobchak7275 LSD is hallucinogen. A classic psychosis.
Walter Sobchak It can, easily. Which is why you should always have a babysitter standing by, in case you need to be talked down from a bad trip.
I really appreciate your closing statement about the dangerous combination of lack of empathy, high intelligence, delusional thinking, and paranoia. It feels as if the lack of empathy is what pushes people like this to do what they do. I wish they could see the benefit of caring for others. Without someone to point them in the right direction, though, what hope is there for them!
Mermaid Mansion it has very little to do with someone pointing them in the right direction. In most cases, their brains are wired differently.
I think Ted's withdrawn nature more than lack of empathy lead to crime. Someone without empathy can realize the value of cooperation. He rejected society, and sought to change it via terror vs leadership.
No mention of a mentor. When Harvard, et all. allow a CHILD to attend you'd think it would be a good idea to have governance of some kind. Even if he was an "emancipated minor" like Howard Hughes, good advice and stewardship would protect both him and the Universities liability, especially today.
Mermaid Mansion it doesn’t seem too delusional, considering nearly every societal critique he has leveled has a fair amount of validity to it
It's a good idea to try. But I don't think they will listen.
It seems important to note to the general public seeking to understanding Ted Kaczynski- he was not against all technology (necessarily), but he understood the demonstrative impact “organizational dependent technology” had on individuals in an industrial society. “Small scale technology” isn’t inherently evil
It’s a shame that such a bright man would disrespect his gifts by using them to blow people up.
They said the same thing about Robert Oppenheimer.
@@damonthomas8955 The issue is exactly that they don't say the same things about Robert Oppenheimer...
That is- his cause was justified, while the UNAbomber's wasn't. If you ask me tho, neither are justified...
@suny123boy1 legality is just something written on a piece of paper, it's not an absolute, something can be legal in one place and illegal a mile away in another jurisdiction. Justification, likewise, exists purely in the mind of the beholder. Who is to say whether the use of force is more or less justified when used by an individual or an institution?
I went to UC Berkeley. My freshman year, a student in one of my classes, who had clearly been struggling with reality for a while, killed himself by jumping off the building where TK supposedly had an office. The building had a lot of weird rumors about it. This kid thought that he would turn into a dragon before hitting the ground. He did not turn into a dragon. TK was part of his choice to use that building.
Ted pretty much predicted "now" -
I was hoping you would include how he had a rash at 9 months and hospitalized. His mother said he changed then, he stopped smiling and didn't keep eye contact.
Exactly. This event was MAJOR for Ted. ...and anyone who has taken psych 101 will understand why.
Hope it was not a reaction to a vaccine ?
@@kathyshouffler2632 You just know it was. His was the first generation to start getting them at scale.
Growing up we had a cabin in Lincoln. Its nuts how we could have passed by him on hikes
Thanks so much for doing such interesting topics Doc! Always enjoy and learn from your analysis. Be safe and happy :)
Maybe you once like to do a video about the 'Hyper Brain/Hyper Body' theory from Karpinsky? This theory holds that, for all it's advantages, being highly intelligent is associated with psychological and physiological "overexcitabilities", or OEs, which seems to be an unusually intense reaction to an environmental threat or insult. This can be anything from a startling sound to confrontation with another person.
Psychological OEs include a highthed tendency to rumminate and worry, whereas physiological OEs arise from the body's response to stress. According to the 'Hyper Brain/Hyper Body' theory, these two types of OEs are more common in highly intelligent people and interact with each other in a "vicious cycle" to cause both psychological and physiological dysfunction. Thank you Dr. Grande 😃🇳🇱
Wow, this sounds very interesting!
Do these psychological OE's include matters like hyperacusis and misophonia? I'm quite interested in nd intrigued by this topic if you'd care to mention anything further regarding it.
Never heard of this, but now I really want to. Can you link or list places where I can find out more about it, please?
Edited to add, I found some info on Karpinsky and the theory.
@@Adara007 I don't exactly know about your question, but if you search on Google " Karpinsky Hyper Brain", you can read more about it.
@@pocoeagle2 Thank you. I have hyperacusis and some misophonia and wonder if it's related to this matter. I also am an INTJ (on the MBTI) and a 5 (5w4 to be specific ) on the Enneagram and apparently quite a few other INTJs and 5's, too, have hyperacusis to various degrees, as do 2 of my 4 brothers, so there's likely a genetic influence or susceptibility, and it definitely causes a lot of difficulties due to our extreme sensitivity to what's often called or dubbed 'environmental noises' which can truly cause frustration, irritation and extreme anger in some sufferers. There's no real listing of these the DSM but they're definitely issues, and I think I'll ask Dr. Grande to analyse and discuss these.
This was so amazing cuz I just watched this on Netflix. Dr. Grande can you do an analysis of a career politician. We have all heard that they are narcissists or power hungry sociopaths. I always thought there was some truth to that. Or maybe the psychological profile of anyone seeking a position of power such as a CEO or a police officer.
Ted Kaczynski was placed in a special dorm at Harvard for younger students. He was part of an intense psychological study. Such an experience, combined with a troubled childhood may have exacerbated his mental illness
Completely, psychological torture / abuse can completely destroy people, like how some torture methods cause a full psychotic break.
Yay! you did it! Thanks, Dr. Grande!
Ive rewatched this. When this was going on I was working in agriculture GMOs lab testing in California.. We were all worried when packages came in. Sad thing was many of our super genius researchers at DuPonr showed signs of mental illness and.or unexplained odd behavior. excellent info. Made sense. Clear explanation. Kudos
I love your content, and your pragmatic approach to cases... It doesn't hurt that my puppy loves to fall asleep to your videos 🤣
imagine being snitched on by your own family. never rebuilding that trust
Kaczynski has written two books from prison, they're excellent: Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution .
This lock-down has 100% increased my sense of well-being, living in Amsterdam. The quiet... at last... one loud moped and my brain gears into (mentally) swearing... cities and their industries are very bad for health (noise, plethora of continuously harmful chemicals, tourists, etcccc), very tiring. I'm thriving during this time, being ok with myself for once and can't help but sympathise with this Kaczynski.
I can definitely think of a cabin out in the wilderness, away from other people, near to clean streams and a lot of beautiful wildlife is an ideal place to be, if one can live sustainably alone. It was, at one point, someone who was cutting down trees - a logger who was noisy and polluted the land - as well as some teenagers illegally riding motorcycles all over the area nearby his hut/home which definitely angered Kaczynski enough to sabotage the logger's equipment (by putting sand in it) and he took an axe, literally, to the walls of the cabin where the motorcyclists were staying to vent his anger at their behaviour!
@@Adara007 Introverts gone wild haha. Thanks for the info, enjoy.
@@particleconfig.8935 That made me laugh - the title could maybe work for a series where introverts are engaged in either what they consider to be "wild" behaviour and activities - which maybe seems 'tame' to extroverts?! - and/or made to engage in their usual introverted activities but with even more intensity than usual! As a INTJ on the MBTI or Myers-Briggs [Personality] Type Indicator, I'm somewhat of an intense introvert as it is. I think some of my loved ones looked genuinely worried at the idea of me taking my introverted activities to up a notch or two!
@@Adara007 Particle Config didn't seem to say anything about being an introvert and wanted alone time to recuperate from being with people. It was about the stresses of living with too much noise and the like. Loud noises such as loud engines and repetitive ones like dogs barking frequently cause stress in the body - that applies to introverts and extraverts.
@@Marnee4191 Whilst the individual I replied to mentioned how the quiet due to the lockdown was causing them to thrive, he also mentioned sympathising with Ted Kaczynski. And I mentioned how Kaczynski dealt with his quiet home being invaded by noisy kids on motorbikes, literally taking an axe to the cabins they were staying in. When the "introverts gone wild" was his reply, I expanded on the traits introverts tend to have which is not limited to issues with noise but to being drained by being around other people, among other matters. I am aware that both introverts and extroverts can be stressed by living with too much noise but the topic was more to do with introverts, hence Particle Config's "introverts gone wild" reference, and I don't see an issue with expanding on a subject.
This was fascinating and informative. Thank you, Doctor. 🤗
The social milieu in the late 60's and 70's, especially in academia, was really cold. Add to that the draft and the pressure on men in that social class to be superstars or nobody, led to some very strained circumstances in their lives, along with very little support for those who had engendered any kind of special recognition. The term "triple threat" comes to mind, which is a recipe for bullying and social ostracization. Given that, and the fact that he would most definitely be very left brain dominant, it was not a surprise to me that he eventually reacted violently and in an anti-social way toward a society that was basically dysfunctional when it came to handling "talent". Many others simply commit suicide.
"You should read Ted Kaczynski's two books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution!
"It really highlights how some academics have a lot of intelligence but no common sense." True dat.
Dr Grande, great video as usual-- very insightful. Could you take a look at the mental health characteristics of the tv/ film character Mr. Bean?
I concur.
I've been waiting patiently for two years now.
I like how you refer to the CIA mind control program as merely a "psycological study"
Also, modern technology controls us all, that part is definetly not a delusion, simply a reflection on modern society. His essay makes a really strong case for this notion.
I believe our good Dr. is a Dr of Hogology , a Swinologist .
I believe it was the psychological study that broke his mind and set him on an angry path.
I will project my thoughts and stimuli...this guy summed up the world we live in now decades ago. Don't let the "science" speaking stop you from seeing the realistic ideas in his manifesto. He was mostly right while being exceptionally wrong in how he chose to deal with the problems. Go within people, and we will effect a change. Change begins internally, not as a reaction to external events or societies changing norms.
Honestly what is IQ? I have below average IQ, aphasia, autism, etc. My SAT score from the 90s was 1446/1600. Getting a high SAT score is really about learning things by rote. I am good at that. Memorizing all multiplication for numbers 0-100 was one thing I did to score so well. I read countless past tests to rote remember word associations. My HS score was 1.8 gpa. I do much better away from people.
Kaczynski has written two books from prison, they're excellent: Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution
8:07 "He would read from the textbook, instead of engaging in dialogue with the students"
So basically, every teacher I've ever had.
I’ve listened to his interviews a few times and noticed narcissism as well.
Kaczynski has written two books from prison, they're excellent: Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution .👌.
A must-have, for his type of thinking and behavior. He probably thinks he has insights that no one else has, and this therefore justifies him acting in an amoral manner, because he is 'special."
@@MalachiWhite-tw7hl he was
What makes me so confused about this case is who in their right mind assumed an experiment like that wouldn't mess with someone's head?
Denial. Professionals don't like to admit it and people will follow what they say often.
This one I found fascinating. I like to see what in his background may have caused him to be like this. I watched the Netflix Unabomber in his own words series it explained a lot. Now I understand more because of your video. It amazes me how you can really quickly describe what’s going on!
Another case I've followed for years. Thank you Dr. G. I found your comments to be very interresting.
Thank you for responding. Your responses interesting often.
Your perspectives appreciated great work stay safe
"If you can't trust Kaczynski who can you trust?" Hilarious!
Your sense of humour cheers me up in these difficult times, Dr. Grande - 'if you can't trust the Unabomber, who can you trust?'
After reading through his manifesto: it would seem that Kacynski has a deeper understanding of human psychology than any professional working in the field. I think he is right to have contempt for psychologists and psychiatrists because the function of those medical professionals is not to help people become happy and overcome their anguish but to make them functional as obedient, functional cogs in the machine by prescribing them psychotropic drugs whose efficacy is questionable at best.
Berkeley, in the runup to the mid sixties. would NOT have been a good place for him. Maybe Oberlin or Reed College, a lot smaller and not so into outlashes against society and overachieving Professors and Thesis students at least as smart as Kacynski, but with intolerant social skills. He would not have fitted there at all. Knowing the academic "process" and dept. politics, it's my guess he was squeezed out, and it wasn't with lubrication.
When are you going to publish your manifesto?
The "psychologists" tortured and brainwashed him as an adolescent. It was their little government funded psyops research project with Ted being the lab rat. all in the name of "science" and ego glorification. Is it really any wonder he became a terrorist? The whole premise of those entitled buttholes disgusts me. I imagine Ted himself may have felt the same from time to time.
The delusion wasn't his provocative thoughts, the delusion is his egalitarianism...
You're one of those Jerries who think they are Rick's. Stating things as obviously wrong as they are right.
Grande provides a superficial review of K.'s treatment at the hands of researchers, and how it happened with such bad timing for K. Grande is contemptible for his glibness and his open and closed attitude with about every matter he engages with.
As an abbreviated analysis in the format of a short RUclips video, I feel as if having an open and closed attitude towards these cases is more than fair. You could create an entire youtube channel based on each individual video he uploads, but that would seem to defeat the purpose of the bite-sized rundown of these topics for people to consume a bit easier.
At 9:07 you said there was no history of substance abuse. However, he was given LSD on multiple occasions when undergoing the psychological experiment where he was berated.
Never knew why he was called the unabomber, now I do! Thanks.
If not for his brother the f.b.i would never get him. They're useless.
He predicted the future.
You should read Ted Kaczynski's two books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution!
I heard he was once in a cell next to the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber, they must of had some interesting chats. Those talks would be material for a Dr. Grande analysis.
Exactly my thoughts, although there's much more irrationality and cult-thinking in Oklahoma City bombing case. If I remember correctly those two guys blew up the FBI shortly after the police killed a group of sect members, as a kind of retribution.
Ray Ross Timothy mcveigh?
Svetozar yes, in retaliation to what happened at Waco (David Koresh, cult leader)
His manifesto is the best thing anyone could ever read. They should teach it in schools!
As hard as it is to stomach Kaccznski is a legend to many,
His beliefs were justified just implemented in a way that only
satisfied his ego.
I can safely and accurately diagnose Theodore with BEING BASED and SANITY-PILLED in an insane world.
I am fascinated by Ted. He makes a lot of valid and thoughtful points in his manifesto.
"You should read Ted Kaczynski's two books, Technological Slavery and Anti-Tech Revolution!
@@davidochieng9296 I will order those, I had no idea he had published anything. Thank you.
5:20 His manuscript was published by Penthouse, which he felt was low brow, so he said hed mail out one last bomb.
The manifesto was published in The Washington Post. The last bomb was a threat in order to make it so they wouldn't publish it in Penthouse.
From wikipedia:
"There was controversy as to whether the essay should be published, but Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh recommended its publication out of concern for public safety and in hope that a reader could identify the author. Bob Guccione of Penthouse volunteered to publish it, but Kaczynski replied that Penthouse was less "respectable" than the other publications. He said that he would "reserve the right to plant one (and only one) bomb intended to kill, after our manuscript has been published".[69] The Washington Post published the essay on September 19, 1995.[70][71]"
Dr. Grande, Although I was an adult during his criminally active period and followed the case fairly closely, I only learned about Kaczynski's experience in the psych study while he was at Harvard a few years ago. It felt that this was a detail of potentially great importance in understanding his development. But Ive been very surprised at 1) the low level of attention this receives in his story and 2) the overall nonchalance with which the study and its designers are treated. You intimated your own feelings, but given that the study willfully and by design did great damage to participants -and that we can point to Ted's mental health as at least having been impacted or damaged by years-long participation, why is it not seen as a punishable offense, or at least an important touchstone that garners serious study and discussion in the mental health and criminal justice communities? The study tore apart students' beliefs and personal philosophies and demeaned their intellects -Ted insisted that his beliefs and philosphy be mass distributed or he'd keep killing people! Your thoughts?
What happened to other participants in the study? Any other mass murderers? Any others who went to live in a one-room cabin in the wilderness for 20 years? Any others who dropped out of society and became anti-social?
If not, then the study had no correlation on the madman he became. But you like conspiracy theories, right?
@@corn_pop6082 It's not a conspiracy since this actually happened. The impact it had on him however can be debated. As you point out the other participants of the study didn't go on to make bombs. I do not believe that you can point to a single event and say "this is the reason". Rather, the accumulative effects of multiple negative events, genetics, exposure to certain ideas, lack of support structure, etc seems likely. This would have been an impactful time in his life for sure, but it wasn't this single experience that led Kaczynski to do what he did.
Compliant media at the time characterized his essay as "rambling" and "incoherent". I find no such thing; the guy was way, way ahead of his time spotting where we are NOW in the digital world!!!
@@corn_pop6082 Hey Frederick, I'm not a black-and-white thinker, so I'm not on your level, my little, aggressive buddy. That study doubtlessly impacted participants, it was a piece of his life that focused entirely on how subjects felt about themselves. Our nonacademic culture (I grew up in backwoods Southern Illinois, now in Brooklyn, NY) shies away from openly discussing possible psychological elements of human acts, to a large degree. No broad strokes, just that this was the era when a lot of powerful substances and practices were being experimented with at universities and in our government (facts, not conspiracy) until they learned about the effects and responded with more cautious action and in some cases, legislation. I.e., Timothy Leary was at Harvard when Ted was. If you're too young to know about that part of American history please look it up, it is fascinating! I neither condone nor condemn drug use or psychological experiments, then or now. I just observe. Honestly, though, your immaturely belligerent content and style did not allow me to start from a point of respect for you. See if you can do better at that. BTW, I'm not trying to sound mature and above you, I'm highly educated and older. Again, just facts. Be well.
@@mollytovxx4181Your comments are in complete synch with my thoughts.
Kaczynski did have a close relationship with a man in Lincoln until the man got married. One of Kaczynski's biographers said he spoke to this man at length about historical subjects and played musical instruments together. When he got married, Kaczynski didn't speak to him as much anymore.
Thanks for making great content Dr. Grande! :)
I would love it if you'd make a video of Timothy McVeigh and the Alt-right movement, as well as the case of Aaron Hernandez!
Another great analysis vid: science fiction author Philip K. Dick.