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Ted Kaczynski offered a critique of 'leftism' that still seems to be accurate. The 'Bay Area Liberal' stereotype that prioritizes defense of victims over all other matters.. well we've definitely seen explosions in that arena.

The larger picture of technology taking over society seems to be accurate as well. It was only 13 years ago when we got the iphone, it's bizarre to think that people didn't stare at their phones constantly only 15 years ago.

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> Ted Kaczynski offered a critique of 'leftism' that still seems to be accurate.

Funny, I totally disagree and it looks to me like he was constructing an elaborate strawman. People made the same sorts of generalizations about certain ethnic groups in the past, and I felt like he was doing the same thing and lazily running sed 's/jews/leftists'.

> Ted Kaczynski offered a critique of 'leftism' that still seems to be accurate.

I highly doubt that's his own analysis, rather it's Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morality" dressed up in a more modern vernacular.

And just like how I interpret Nietzsche in the context of him being the third wheel in an open relationship, this feels like someone who is reacting because they feel let down by the promises of "leftism" or society in general. It says more about the psychic state of the author than about the truth of the world.

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