Luigi Mangione, the suspected killer of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, criticized a manifesto written by the terrorist who became known as the 'Unabomber'. In line with some ideas left in the essay, Mangione talks about big companies and leaves some questions (but there are criticisms left by the 'Unabomber' brother).
Luigi Mangione, the suspect of having killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, left, in February, a 'review' [critical] of the book 'The Industrial Society and Its Future', known as 'The Unabomber's Manifesto'.
The essay was written by Ted Kaczynski [known as 'Unabomber'], who sent booby-trapped letters to several universities in the United States and to an American Airlines plane between 1978 and 1995. The situation resulted in three deaths and 23 injured people.
The review in question was written earlier this year on Goodreads, a platform used as a 'shelf' - where users share what they are reading, as well as criticizing works.
"It's easy to write quickly and without thinking that this is a lunatic's manifesto, to avoid confronting some of the uncomfortable problems he identifies. But it's simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out to be," wrote Mangione in relation to the test.
Decided to take a look at Luigi Mangione's Goodreads account, and I said this about adding up. #luigimangione pic.twitter.com/bbFkSdBRUD
— olive (@olivia314512) December 9, 2024
The 26-year-old suspect also writes: "When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. We may not like his methods, but if we see things from his perspective, it's not terrorism, it's war and revolution. "
And in the same comment, he quotes the companies that profit from fossil fuels: "These companies don't give a shit about us, our children or our grandchildren. They have no doubts about whether they should burn the planet for a dollar, so why should we have doubts about making them burn to survive?"
Criticism in 'inspiration'
After the comment left on Goodreads left the idea that the work may have inspired - or influenced - his actions, there are those who hope not. We're talking about Ted Kaczynski's brother, who helped the FBI catch the domestic terrorist - interestingly, after the publication of the manifesto in question.
The 'Unabomber' brother told NBC News he hoped Mangione wasn't looking to his brother as a “role model.” "His actions are like a virus. They can be like a virus unless you understand that he was a very angry and disturbed man. Not to say that his ideas are the ideas of a lunatic, but his behavior, I believe me, it's the behavior of a lunatic," said David Kaczynski.
In statements to the North American publication, by telephone, Kaczynski added that the fact that his brother had "attributed a type or reformulation of violent acts as beneficial to humanity is a terrible mistake."
Ted Kaczynski pleaded guilty to the 16 explosions he caused and was serving a life sentence until last year, when he was found dead in prison.
Ted Kaczynski forced the Washington Post, in conjunction with the New York Times, to make the decision in September 1995 to publish his 35,000-word manifesto. The work states that modern society and technology were leading to a feeling of powerlessness and alienation.
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