• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Man it’s not like I want to, but there’s a non zero chance that I’ll turn into a (more intersectional) ted kacynsky in the futuse

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      6 days ago

      We had to read the unibomber manifesto in college, in a class on terrorism and extremism. NGL, I feel uncomfortable knowing that he’s being proven right an awful lot 😞

      • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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        5 days ago

        It doesn’t take a genius to know how fucked and hopeless the outlook is, only someone willing to look beyond a just world bias. If anything, believing things aren’t irrevocably fucked is burying your head in the sand.

        Where the Unabomber is an awful person is what he thinks we should do. He thinks we shouldn’t try to live the best lives we can. He thinks cruelty is somehow justified, when all that’s really justified is doing what you must to survive. All the people who recognize the truth and didn’t decide to kill people will never be remembered like that prick. Like most mass killers, he just wanted to be remembered.