[Billthedrill]

The manifesto is interesting reading but it got to be that Teddy was in it for the game. How he figured that societal change could be accomplished by blowing up faculty secretaries and assistant professors is a little hard to fathom.

[LouAvul]

I agree. What little I learned about him (news, documentaries, etc), I concluded he did it because he thought he was too smart to get caught. First and foremost, he was a classic narcissist. It seems he had some capacity for remorse which would make him a sociopath, as opposed to, a psychopath.

IMO.

[irishjuggler]

I posted this in another thread:

... all his grand philosophizing about the state of humanity was little more than a bulls—t, self-deluding cover for a misanthrope who felt powerful when he blew up stuff.

I remember back when he was arrested, one of the media specials delved into his biography and they interviewed some of his high-school classmates. One woman expressed no surprise whatsoever that classmate Teddy was the Unabomber. She said he had always been a weirdo jerk who thought he was better and smarter than everyone else. She remembered him setting off prank bombs around the neighborhood, in school bathrooms etc. She said that she’d been telling people for years that she suspected good old Ted was the Unabomber.