Just recently, Myth of the 20th Century, one of the site's podcasts was talking about the thoughts' of Theodore John Kacyznsk, otherwise known as the Unabomber, on the progress and growth of technology, how pervasive it is, and how this progress is somewhat of an illusion. As technology advances, there are many negative effects of it. The podcast tries to give credit where credit is due and I mostly agree with their sentiments. It's just that some comments in the comment section were, at the very least, disturbing.
Poster AJM writes:
"If Ted hadn’t done what he did nobody would be reading or talking about his work. He is the author of one of the most advertised political manifestos there ever was. He was reaching out to people that desire radical destruction of the system. He wasn’t reaching out to people that would be turned off by his tactics.
You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs — historical heroes nearly every last one of them are killers. The only difference between him and them is that he is not venerated."Apparently the Unabomber was some sort of "freedom fighter" in this person's mind, sort of like a how leftists view ISIS as "freedom fighters", though the sane call them terrorists (and the Unabomber even admitted that he was causing terrorism in order to change "the system").
Other incidents were a whiff of admiration of Nazism, the targeting of Jews as the main players of modernism and my own brushes of unsavory manners against a fogey who was a white nationalist.
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