#484: A Letter From Uncle Ted

Ted Kaczynski was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist who mailed bombs from 1978 through 1995 and scared the hell out of the American public until his arrest in 1996. Most people remember the hooded sunglasses sketch, but not the message and certainly not the reason why Ted decided to take things to the extreme.

The Unabomber’s Manifesto is a 35,000-word document detailing his fight against industrialization and the destruction of nature in the name of progress. Was Uncle Ted just a paranoid lunatic living in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, or was he made that way by being part of a much darker experiment back in his college days?