Everyone’s as Bonkers as the Unabomber Now

The Unabomber is dead, but his deranged ideology lives. Rereading Ted Kaczynski’s cranky manifesto, the most unsettling thing about it is how mainstream it sounds. Oh for the early 1990s when conspiratorial screeds against the evils of the Industrial Revolution were the preserve of murderous hippies in wood cabins. Now they’re 10 a penny. You can’t open a newspaper, switch on a news show or even walk down the street – hello, Just Stop Oil – without encountering a noisy Kaczynski-style lamentation about how the Industrial Revolution ruined everything. Everyone’s as batshit as the Unabomber now.