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Why??? Why on earth would you want to bias a reader and make him/her prejudicial to ideas. The whole point of rational inquiry is to dispassionately asses ideas on their own merits. This is why we have double-blind review. And at any rate, the truth or validity of ideas is in no way related to the personalities behind them. That's logic 101. So why would you want to encourage prejudice and bias?

I agree. I recommend that you read Kaczynski's two books:

"Technological Slavery" (2010) and "Anti-Tech Revolution"(2016).

The second book is truly extraordinary and insightful. Here's a review by MIT:

"Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is Kaczynski’s well-reasoned, cohesive composition about how revolutionary groups should approach our mercurial future….. I recommend that you read this compelling perspective on how we can frame our struggles in a technological society." -- The Tech, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper

But "mental health" also implies specific value judgements which are relative to the dominant ideology of a society or civilization. It's these value judgements that determine how the "averages" or the data in general, is interpreted.

For example, if you lived in the middle ages and you were a radical atheist, no doubt that under that system of education and propaganda, you would have been deemed by that society to be "mentally ill" (or similar contemporary equivalent).

The charge of "mental illness" or psychological pathology in general, has throughout history been weaponized to isolate and/or suppress politically incorrect or heretical ideas that run totally counter to the prevailing world-views.

There's a lot that's wrong with this post, which is at odds with all the available anthropology on hunter-gatherer tribes. For instance, the death by age 30 idea is completely misleading. While it's true that infant-mortality was very high, the life expectancy after childhood was very similar to modern man's. And you can't have it both ways: high infant mortality is just one of the mechanisms by which the biosphere maintains ecological equilibrium. Without it you end up with gross overpopulation, resource depletion, global environmental collapse etc. etc.

Your understanding of freedom is also problematic. Hunter-gatherers had enormous self-responsibility if the wanted to stay alive. They had to work HARD just to survive. Freedom in wilderness circumstances does not mean what it has come to mean in modern society. It implied enormous responsibility. Nowadays, modern man has lost all conception of freedom beyond days off from work so as to fritter away his time in hedonistic pursuits.

This is totally false. In modern techno-industrial society you have abundant freedom to do meaningless things--you have a ton of choices in how you fritter away your time in hedonistic pursuits--but in all practical, life-and-death choices, man is completely powerless and freedom-less at the hands of powerful organizations. But it is the freedom to exercise practical, life-and-death choices that is real freedom, which people need to experience to live happy and dignified lives. Purely for the sake of technical necessity, industrial society must have these practical freedoms wrested away from individuals and placed in the hands of powerful organizations. This has been a gradual process, beginning with civilization, but it has become especially acute and accelerated after the industrial revolution. Kaczynski's knowledge of history is deep and extensive on this point.

I recommend you read his first book, "Technological Slavery" on this topic. You can check out his second book "Anti-Tech Revolution" as well, though this deals more with ecological issues in my opinion and less with human freedom.

"find a place where he is welcome to do so."

These places are disappearing rapidly from the map. There's very little wild country left, and at the rate economic growth is going, there probably wont be any left in several decades.

Also read his two books: "Technological Slavery" and "Anti-Tech Revolution"

"Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is Kaczynski’s well-reasoned, cohesive composition about how revolutionary groups should approach our mercurial future….. I recommend that you read this compelling perspective on how we can frame our struggles in a technological society." -- The Tech, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper

Kaczynski has written two books since his incarceration: TECHNOLOGICAL SLAVERY (2010) and ANTI-TECH REVOLUTION: WHY AND HOW (2016)

His essential points, according to the preface to Technological Slavery, are:

1) Technological progress is carrying us to inevitable disaster. … 2) Only the collapse of modern technological civilization can avert disaster. … 3) The political left is technological society’s first line of defense against revolution. … 4) What is needed is a new revolutionary movement, dedicated to the elimination of technological society. …

Yes, he is a remorseless killer. No he's not "batshit crazy".

You might also want to check out his most recent work, "Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How" (2016)

Here's what MIT's student newspaper had to say about the book:

"Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is Kaczynski’s well-reasoned, cohesive composition about how revolutionary groups should approach our mercurial future….. I recommend that you read this compelling perspective on how we can frame our struggles in a technological society." -- The Tech, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper

"batshit crazy" haha. A political classification if there ever was one.

It's so refreshing to actually read a truly free thinking and intelligent discussion on the problems of technology and its impacts on society.

Anyway, I just finished reading Kaczynski's first book, "Technological Slavery" (Feral House, 2010) It's an amazing work and it elaborates on this point quite a bit. Recommended.