Why would a genius with an IQ of 168 who jumped into the mathematics department of Harvard University at the age of 16 become a bomber? Maybe someone will take "Frankenstein" author Mary. Shelley's famous quote "A man does not go to evil because he longs for evil, but misunderstands evil for the happiness he pursues!" to describe the Unabomber who was a sensation in the United States in the 70s and 90s. But first we have to ask the question, why would anyone mistake evil for happiness? Or is there something wrong with the relationship between genius itself and this social mechanism?
Discovery Channel's 8-episode FBI crime investigation series "Manhunt: Unabomber" (formerly "Manifesto") is one of my most obsessive episodes of late. Although I knew very little about the real news of the bomber at first; obviously, I deliberately avoided crawling in advance and did not read spoilers; I just followed the footsteps of the FBI agents to restore the whole story of the case. From the very beginning of the show, Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a police officer who only cracked down on illegal graffiti in the community, was transformed into a character more unique than a detective, the new FBI crime profiler.
And what is offender profiling? It is a behavioral investigation method used to assist investigators in profiling unknown criminal objects or criminals. "Behavioral Surveys", eh! This subject, we just learned from David. Another Finch-directed series, Mindhunter, learned a little bit. It turns out that the dialectics of behavioral science and the establishment of criminal logic can often be the most important argument for explaining (or solving) a crime. So, the higher the content and accuracy of the crime profile, the easier it seems to be to catch the real culprit? In fact, in the first half of the film, there are always many doubts in the criminal profile's inference of the case, or even the establishment of the object of the crime (because there is not even a decent suspect).
Photo: Ted Kaczynski
"Manhunt: The Bomber Manhunt: Unabomber" has a fascinating detective and criminal reasoning plot in the first half; it is mainly based on Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald's criminal profile, as well as the unidentified college bomber. bomb attack. Since this criminal case was investigated for 20 years, spanning from the 1970s to the 1990s, it not only made it more difficult to track down and locate the suspects, but the investigation team also took advantage of the computer technology that was in the ascendant at that time, and collected a batch of suspicious objects from the data database. ; but that is limited to suspects who have committed crimes (with criminal records or at large). If the bomber was an undocumented, or a first-time offender, there's no way that data would catch the real culprit.
Hence the role of Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald's criminal profile. The reason why Fitz is so high is that at the beginning, he disassembled the message that the bomber really released from the letter of the bomber. Could it be that there isn't a single smart person in the entire FBI? All fools? Why does Fitz stand out? It turns out that Fitz has the ability to see the world from a different angle that the "normal person" lacks. This also explains the situation of the college bomber Ted; isn't his brother also a character who is good at independence, reverse thinking, observing from different angles, and existing in the world? And such a person may end up being unattainable in his entire life, or regarded as a freak.
The show culminated in the publication of "On Industrial Society and Its Future," and the growth of the bomber Ted. We ask ourselves, is there ever a lack of such characters in real life? The difference exists only in whether the genius chooses a proper or normal channel to express his full talent. In the play, Ted chose to use a mail bomb to hurt people, and chose the most inappropriate option; many people (even the plot is played like this) I am afraid that Ted, despite his high IQ and intelligence, must be a person who is alienated from interpersonal relationships. , unapproachable freaks; what kind of persecution (and bullying) did you endure as a child? So the sixth episode "Ted" directly restores the growth process of the bomber "Ted" Kaczynski. We learn that he jumped into Harvard as a sixteen-year-old; at first he made like-minded playmates on campus. Until later he was betrayed by everyone! Playmates betrayed him, mother betrayed him, college professor betrayed him, and finally even his own brother betrayed him.
The successive blows created Ted's personality distortion in the future, eventually becoming a college bomber, mistaking evil as a means of attracting attention. We can't help but wonder, is it Ted's problem, or is it the problem of society as a whole? An overly rigid system (such as the way the Bureau of Investigation initially conducted investigations) and the same social type do not accept an existence that contradicts public opinion. In his book "On Industrial Society and Its Future", which he submitted to the Bureau of Investigation, Ted stated that industrial society deprives human beings of their freedom; The O's expounded extensively on his insights into the future. It's just that Alan Watts succeeded in different fields; Ted was considered a half-toned theorist because of his involvement in the bombings.
In April 1996, when the police charged Ted with terrorism, murder, and bomb-making, he rejected the "mentally ill" defense offered by the defense attorney at the time; he bowed his head and pleaded guilty to the court. This move is only to defend his own idea; an idea established by a "non-mentally ill" person, or an insight and prediction for the future society. Fitz, the crime profiler on the show, hit Ted's mortal wound and indeed became the key to getting the suspect to bow his head and plead guilty. But we try to look back at Fitz's journey along the way; broken family, marital relationships, peer greed and betrayal. We can almost describe it as Ted who made Fitz; otherwise, Fitz is still just an ordinary detective to this day, and the demonstration of the behavioral science of forensic linguistics headed by him is still only on paper.
But thinking about Fitz's experience, do you think it's worth it? Isn't he also a Ted" Kaczynski in a different position? Does he have the same compassion for his victims? The two mirrors of good and evil, or both ends of the scale, have the same cases (or things) happening every day; when we are too accustomed to relying on known moral standards to measure people and things for themselves, we become In order to make Ted's comrade. But we all want to be comrades, afraid of standing in a group of black people in bright clothes. Isn't that us?
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