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SENTENCED. THEODORE KACZYNSKI, 55, confessed Unabomber; to four consecutive life sentences plus 30 years in prison; in Sacramento, Calif...
...technology was destroying nature. But by making the bomb partly out of wood and selecting victims who represented the advance of technology, he was sending a second message: Technology was destroying both itself and nature. Intrigued, the FBI asked for more, and a year before the arrest of Theodore Kaczynski, Jones predicted the Unabomber would turn out to be an intellectual, a conservationist, a loner, possibly a college teacher, familiar with the work of Joseph Conrad, and would see himself as if in "a war to save the world." But Jones couldn't give the FBI a name...
...When he told the FBI about his theory, they were intrigued, and asked for more. So he began deconstructing the Unabomber's taunting letters to authorities. That's how, a year before former Berkeley math professor Theodore Kaczynski was arrested in the Montana woods, Jones predicted that the Unabomber would have read author Joseph Conrad, would see himself as in "a war to save the world," and would be "an intellectual, a "conservationist," a loner, and possibly a college teacher...
...Although many of Jones' predictions were uncannily accurate, he could not give the FBI what they wanted most: a name. So when Kaczynski's brother David came forward a few months later and did just that, the FBI got their man--and Jones got a polite letter from the agency thanking him for his help (but no reward). As Kaczynski comes before a federal judge today to be sentenced to life in prison, Jones, now an English teacher at Utah Valley State College, plans to watch the news along with the rest of the public. But he has written Kaczynski...
Imagine if Ted Kaczynski were younger, hipper and had a brilliantly witty sense of humor. Imagine that instead of writing a lengthy manifesto on the ills of modern society, he chose instead to compress his belief system into simple, easy-to-swallow sound bites for mass consumption: "The future is fake" "Everybody's lying." "Stop breathing." "Progress is over." Rather than spreading his doctrine with letter bombs and threats of destruction, he might instead have devised a quirky, culture-savvy, pink-jacketed novel about the end of the world. He might very well have penned something like Douglas Coupland...