... or, deep down, 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.
His sister-in-law "turned him it." She read the Unabomber manifesto in the Washington Post, and turned to her husband, and said, "This sounds just like your brother." They contacted the FBI who staked out his cabin in Montana, and eventually got a search warrant, and found enough evidence to convict him. He was far from a harmless crank, and his exploits caused serious harm to innocent people.