Luigi Mangione, the man alleged to have killed Brian Thompson, wrote a review of Ted Kaczynski's Industrial Society and its Future on Goodreads and this sparked a flurry of renewed interest in it so I thought I might add my two cents on the controversial piece. The manifesto is available on this very site and several other places. I'm just going to outline the work and my two major problems with it rather than exploring the whole thing and responding to every point.

Firstly, I want to say that the manifesto is well written. Kaczynski's incisive and compact style rapidly presents his thesis, marshals evidence in its favor, and answers objections. Having read political tracts whose authors seemed to believe they were being payed by the word I am glad for this. The sophistication of the language and arguments seem to operate right at the limit of the median English speaker's understanding which seems appropriate given it's intended

When John Simon made the Haight-Ashbury scene the flower-power generation was just starting to get it together. Simon, then 18, began as an outlaw biker fighting the Hell's Angels, was drawn more and more into the gentler acid-love culture and became one of the leaders of the Diggers.
—back cover, The Sign of the Fool.

He also worked with the Grateful Dead,

An important component of Joseph Masco’s "Nuclear Borderlands" is the paradox that nuclear weapons- which are immensely and incomprehensibly destructive- are produced in the name of keeping us safe. Much of the fear surrounding nuclear weapons revolves around their intentional use by belligerent nuclear powers or rogue actors, but this fear seems misplaced. No nuclear weapon has ever been stolen, and the only time they have only been used as weapons of war once by the United States. Indeed, the