I grew up in the nearest large town to Ted’s Montana hideout, Helena. A friend’s father was his early defense attorney. We shopped at the same used book store, borrowed from the same town library.
I just want to say here that lots of smart people fleeing to Montana fetishize the wilderness and vilify American society, even as they continue to depend on the latter in many ways large and small.
Their way has nothing to offer. A primitive existence barely above subsistence, and a closed future in a war they can’t win.
What’s more, despite his intellectual capacity, let’s pause for a moment to consider the arrogance, wrongheadedness and unhappiness tipping into insanity of a man who left civilization and assumed for himself the role of passing death sentences on sometimes random strangers.
He’s a more literate school shooter whose best offering is a form of nihilism.
I just want to say here that lots of smart people fleeing to Montana fetishize the wilderness and vilify American society, even as they continue to depend on the latter in many ways large and small.
Their way has nothing to offer. A primitive existence barely above subsistence, and a closed future in a war they can’t win.
What’s more, despite his intellectual capacity, let’s pause for a moment to consider the arrogance, wrongheadedness and unhappiness tipping into insanity of a man who left civilization and assumed for himself the role of passing death sentences on sometimes random strangers.
He’s a more literate school shooter whose best offering is a form of nihilism.