LogFAQs > #911109904

LurkerFAQs, Active DB, DB1, DB2, DB3, Database 4 ( 07.23.2018-12.31.2018 ), DB5, DB6, DB7, DB8, DB9, DB10, DB11, DB12, Clear

Topic List	Page List: 1
Topic	'Suspicious packages' mailed to Clinton, Obama, George Soros and CNN.
WhiskeyDisk 10/24/18 9:27:26 PM #19:	ParanoidObsessive posted... WhiskeyDisk posted... I would argue that Ted "Unabomber" Kaczynski is an exception to this rule. Of course I would categorically denounce his bombing activities, but I would argue his manifesto Industrial Society and it's Future was absolutely brilliant and disturbingly prophetic in it's predictions of the sociopolitical climate we're now in. But he chose to express that sentiment by trying to blow things up, which is pretty much the point where he might as well have shit in a grapefruit and worn it as a hat for all the good it did. It doesn't really matter what your message is, or even if it's technically accurate. If you use asshole means to convey it, people are going to treat you like an asshole, and you're effectively undermining your own cause. You accomplish very little of substance, other than guaranteeing that most people are going to support the very things you're trying to oppose. Sane people don't decide that the best possible way to advance their position is go out of their way to ensure that literally everyone is going to turn against them. Or that the best solution to political disagreements is to try and murder people with explosives. Again, I never said I agreed with Professor Ted's methods, but I cannot deny that his manifesto was a masterpiece. I can't just file him away as a simple lunatic. If anything, he is a genius turned evil, like Viktor von Doom or Otto Octavius. Even the craftsmanship on some of his bombs approached art. Rare hardwood cases, hand filed shrapnel...sure it poisoned his message, but I think his message is more relevant now than ever. I accept that I'm in an exceedingly small minority in this regard. --- https://imgur.com/4fmtLFt http://s1.zetaboards.com/sba/ ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap. <cite>WhiskeyDisk posted [p:911109904] in 'Suspiciou... [t:77127902]...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote><cite>WhiskeyDisk posted...</cite> <quote>I would argue that Ted "Unabomber" Kaczynski is an exception to this rule. Of course I would categorically denounce his bombing activities, but I would argue his manifesto Industrial Society and it's Future was absolutely brilliant and disturbingly prophetic in it's predictions of the sociopolitical climate we're now in.</quote> But he chose to express that sentiment by trying to blow things up, which is pretty much the point where he might as well have shit in a grapefruit and worn it as a hat for all the good it did. It doesn't really matter what your message is, or even if it's technically accurate. If you use asshole means to convey it, people are going to treat you like an asshole, and you're effectively undermining your own cause. You accomplish very little of substance, other than guaranteeing that most people are going to support the very things you're trying to oppose. Sane people don't decide that the best possible way to advance their position is go out of their way to ensure that literally everyone is going to turn against them. Or that the best solution to political disagreements is to try and murder people with explosives. </quote> Again, I never said I agreed with Professor Ted's methods, but I cannot deny that his manifesto was a masterpiece. I can't just file him away as a simple lunatic. If anything, he is a genius turned evil, like Viktor von Doom or Otto Octavius. Even the craftsmanship on some of his bombs approached art. Rare hardwood cases, hand filed shrapnel...sure it poisoned his message, but I think his message is more relevant now than ever. I accept that I'm in an exceedingly small minority in this regard. --- https://imgur.com/4fmtLFt http://s1.zetaboards.com/sba/ ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Topic List	Page List: 1