"Manhunt: Bomber Manhunt: Unabomber" (formerly known as "Manifesto Manifesto"), based on real events, is an 8-episode FBI crime investigation drama produced by Discovery Channel, mainly about the FBI recruiting and arresting the process of serial bombing criminals.
FBI agent Fitz is a specialized linguist who is not used to collecting intelligence in the old way. He used his unconventional method to bring the bomber who has been hiding for nearly 20 years to justice.
Regarding the plot, I won't go into details. I just want to talk about the tragic lives of the two protagonists in the play. Full of helplessness, pain, resentment, and a pathological persistence of disapproval. Let's start with Kasinski, the bomber himself.
Kasinski has a high IQ of 167. By the way, Einstein's IQ is 146 and Hawking's IQ is 160.
At the age of 16, he was admitted to the mathematics department of Harvard University, and then completed his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan in just a few months. The advisor said that his doctoral dissertation was only understood by a dozen people in the United States.
He is completely god-like. Even if he can't reach the status of Einstein and Hawking, he can at least contribute wisdom and wisdom to the progress of human society.
But it was Kasinski, with an IQ of 167, who continued to mail bombs to university professors, executives of large corporations and airlines from 1978 to 1995, killing 3 people and injuring more than 20.
He was arrested on April 3, 1996 and finally sentenced to life imprisonment by the court.
What has he been through? Let him go from genius to murderer, from god to devil?
Let's take a look. In the TV series, he wrote a long letter to his brother, summarizing the first half of his life.
Kasinski has basically no friends since childhood, and suffered various betrayals of family, friendship and love.
Because he is too good, he skips grades, surrounded by classmates who are bigger and dumber than him, how can he play happily? I finally made a friend, but after getting along for a while, he left because the other party had a girlfriend and was heartbroken. When he became an adult, he dated a girl, but was toyed with by his colleagues and posted love letters all over the room. I think he had given up on the world at that time.
Among them, the most critical factor should be that his university professor Murray, with the assistance of the US Central Intelligence Agency, presided over a "mind control" experimental project, Kaczynski and his classmates became uninformed. They used experimental subjects to test people's psychological reactions under extreme pressure, in an attempt to establish a psychological warfare interrogation method that would psychologically destroy the political beliefs of Soviet spies.
I once regarded professors as life mentors and guiding lights, but I suffered from this. It had a huge impact on his psychological state and life beliefs, which eventually led him to become a bomber.
I believe that most people who watch the show will have pity on him later. Kaczynski was indeed wrong, but why was he wrong? Who and what caused him to go wrong?
Perhaps his paper can explain it to us.
On April 24, 1995, Kasinski sent a letter to several newspapers and magazines in the United States, promising that if the "New York Times" and "Washington Post" published his 35,000-word academic paper - "Industrial Society & Its Future", he will stop the serial bombings that lasted for 18 years. The FBI eventually allowed its paper to be published on the grounds of "preventing the bomb from happening again."
Kaczynski's criminal motives are explained in On Industrial Society and Its Future. He believes that industrial civilization has deprived human beings of freedom, and technological development has brought disaster to human beings. Therefore, he aimed at high-tech talents such as scientists and engineers who promoted the development of science and technology, and achieved the liberation of human freedom in the form of technological regression.
Genius and murderer, civilization and evil, technology and disaster... Which is right and wrong? Unexpectedly, these two sides that were originally opposites were actually closely connected, and they were transformed into each other if they were not careful.
Near the forest where Kasinski lives in seclusion, he meets a little boy who might save his soul. But when he went to the little boy's birthday party with a handmade gift, he suddenly found that his gift was actually like a piece of shit, and it couldn't be on the table at all. He was utterly heartbroken, he burned the gift, and the only hope and tenderness he had.
After Kasinski was arrested, he used his high IQ to find a loophole in the FBI's program to arrest him. The so-called "fruit of the poisonous tree" theory can easily settle the lawsuit, and maybe he can get away without guilt.
However, his lawyer took the initiative to incriminate him on the pretext of schizophrenia, but in this way, his book "On Industrial Society and Its Future" will not be recognized.
An angry Kasinski roared loudly: That is the hard work I have fought for all my life, without it I have only a body left!
The helpless Kasinski could only plead guilty in the end, for his thesis and his ideals.
I have always believed that who you will become and who you will know in this world may be destined.
Kaczynski was originally a genius who could accomplish big things. But he met selfish friends, tough detectives, kind relatives, cunning lawyers, cowardly judges, angry people, greedy media, dark society, twisted humanity...
And ignorant humans!
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