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Given that Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was a terrorist who killed people with mail bombs and lived in a shack in the woods, I expected his manifesto to read like the ravings of a lunatic.

I was wrong. His prose is quite readable, and the manifesto has a clear inner logic.

My review (for paid subscribers) in the latest Roots of Progress newsletter:

Given that Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was a terrorist who killed people with mail bombs and lived in a shack in the woods, I expected his manifesto to read like the ravings of a lunatic.

I was wrong. His prose is quite readable, and the manifesto has a clear inner logic.

My review (for paid subscribers) in the latest Roots of Progress newsletter: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/two-mini-reviews-seeing-like-a-state