Journalism being downstream of random microblog threads (tumblr reddit or 4chan) again... What I mean to say is, I thought this was a widely known consensus.

Also - calling him a university dropout is extremely misleading. He left his position as a professor to live in the woods and send bombs to people, lol. This article is making it sound like he didn't finish his bachelors.

I wonder if there's some angle in scaring smart people to stay at university, by making it seem like they'll end up as the unabomber. Or just in scaring them into being more submissive.

Of course the BBC leave out that he was a victim of MK-ULTRA.

1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in "advanced" countries.

2. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy.

3. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.

4. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/unabom-manifesto-1.html