> I think this is an unkind assessment to Kaczynski.
Only if you have a stigmatizing view of mental illness.
> but I think people forget he really was a very good mathematician
Famously, so was John Nash, who was schizophrenic. To say nothing about the large number of very accomplished people in many fields. Mentally ill people can be very smart and talented.
> and that he very likely was a subject in the MK-Ultra experiments without realizing it.
The onset of schizophrenia tends to happen in late adolescence. This lines up with his time at Harvard. I think it's wrong to blame the psychological experiment thing for this. It's like people who blame drugs for making people schizophrenic, without understanding that they may have had the condition before.
Only if you have a stigmatizing view of mental illness.
> but I think people forget he really was a very good mathematician
Famously, so was John Nash, who was schizophrenic. To say nothing about the large number of very accomplished people in many fields. Mentally ill people can be very smart and talented.
> and that he very likely was a subject in the MK-Ultra experiments without realizing it.
The onset of schizophrenia tends to happen in late adolescence. This lines up with his time at Harvard. I think it's wrong to blame the psychological experiment thing for this. It's like people who blame drugs for making people schizophrenic, without understanding that they may have had the condition before.
I would recommend the Netflix doc.