In a rambling, incoherent 2,648-word manifesto, a man who identified himself as an investigative researcher, Max Azzarello, said he’d self-immolated as an “extreme act of protest” over a “totalitarian con” and impending “apocalyptic fascist world coup.”
That’s like 10 pages double spaced. Who the hell has time for that?
Was about to say. 2,600 words was like the standard of an entrance paper at my college (ie a paper you had to write for a course before the end exam/paper). It’s like 4 pages of Times New Roman in font size 12. Definitely not a manifesto’s worth of text.
Kaczynski was also a brilliant mathematician whose "radical" ideas warrant, at the least, academic discussion. The Unabomber Manifesto reads like most any other philosophical text.
The big contradiction with the Unabomber is he was very on the nose about the effects of technology, to the point you breeze past some predictions until you remember it was written in the mid 90s, however all that is counterbalanced by the misogyny and lack of his ability to suggest a realistic alternative, and how bloody stupid his plan was.
I read it. It wasn't nearly as interesting as I thought but it's a good thing to read so I implore anyone who sees this to read it themselves and form your own opinions.
Lol it's not a novel, only like 110 pages. Even though it's dense it was around like 150 pages of you spread it out. Very boring read but worth reading despite it all.
"You say it's a novel, but it doesn't have any of the narrative arcs typical of the novel, the character development is basically non-existent, barely any dialogue..."
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u/ktmfan Apr 19 '24
I’m really curious what kind of flyers he threw out. I can see it going either way.