Harvard Embarrassed Because Unabomber Had Entry In 50th Reunion Book

You probably saw this odd item which was mentioned

by many news outlets. However, the real story of Ted

Kaczynski often remains as remote as that Montana

shack he lived in for so many years.

What All Schoolchildren Learn                                                                         

by Tony Peyser

“I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”

                        --- W.H. Auden

                “September 1, 1939”

His mother thought her young son

might be autistic. It’s clear now he

was at the highest end of this syn-

drome & must’ve had Asperger’s.

While in the fifth grade, his IQ was

determined to be 167. His astonish-

ing intellectual skills were matched

with his profoundly lacking social

skills.

            *          *          *

He went off to college at the tender

young age of 16. It should come as

no surprise that he didn’t fit in. It

might come as a surprise that part

of his curriculum --- over a period

of years --- was being subjected to

severe psychological tests while he

was strapped in a chair & connected

to electrodes. This research project

intentionally brutalized his already

fragile sense of self.

            *          *          *

His violent spree went on for over a

decade, a saga of revenge & mayhem.

It’s curious he didn’t target the man

who conducted all those experiments.

That might have induced some sense

of closure or, at least, symmetry.

            *          *          *

Here in the second decade of the 21^st

century, we’re all terrified of foreign

evildoers and yet we’re so skilled at

manufacturing our own. Lee Harvey

Oswald, James Earl Ray and Timothy

McVeigh were all in the army. This

benignly named “personality study”

which transformed this unbalanced

teenager into a psychopath took place

at an acclaimed academic institution

(Harvard University) and was sponsor-

ed by the CIA. The man in charge was

Dr. Henry Murray. What he did to this

adolescent was utterly depraved. Yes,

Ted Kaczynski a.k.a. The Unabomber

should remain in prison the rest of his

life but Murray was never punished for

any of his crimes, let alone charged with

anything. Mathematics was Kaczynski’s

best subject. It wasn’t mine. But even I

know that this doesn’t add up.