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Left-libertarian inclined readers might be curious to learn that anarchism "continues to gain converts at an alarming rate," and it is a "global network" bound to become destructive and murderous with little discrimination since its rejection of authority and received moral order take the "terror" form of "modern evil." Be it left, right, religious, antiglobalist, environmentalist, or whatever, makes little difference since "all terrorists follow the same logic" (Those who don't are, presumably, not really terrorists). Such stands as an essential part of the conclusion by a self-identified "cultural historian" (former college philosophy teacher) of ostensibly liberal cast (he claims to be critical of Cold War and later repressiveness). His main case revolves around a considerably researched biohistory of the "Unabomber" tendentiously subtitled "The Education of an American Terrorist."
Theodore J. Kaczynski (b.1942) now serves a life-without-parole sentence in a federal U.S. prison. Over the best part of two decades, he experimented with disguised package bombs (developing a technological mastery!), eventually and ingeniously distributing sixteen which killed three people and maimed several others. His victims were strangers very loosely selected for some supposed role in our domination by high technology. Ted K.'s most famous ploy was to get a lengthy anti-technocracy manifesto, "Industrial Society and Its Future," published (1995) by the New York Times and the Washington Post in exchange for a promise (whose sincerity, Chase argues, was highly questionable) not to bomb anymore. It led to his literary identification (by his brother) to the FBI, and capture. Ironies are rampant. From prison, he still appears to advocate, without remorse, the destruction of American technology-dominated society, and its minions.
How did he get that way? Alston Chase suggests multiple answers, but they can be summarized as personal psychopathic resentment-rage and as an ideology of primitivist anti-modernism. The disproportionate vengeance against his familial and social environment -- a liberal working-class family, and the conformist social roles in the fifties and sixties...