tucker on ted kaczynski: “uncle ted? i think it's very bad to send mail bombs. i'm totally opposed to that. but i'm capable of separating the two. his books are some of the most interesting things i've ever read in my life. basically the thesis is there's a massive cost to technology that we don't perceive and it's entirely possible, in fact likely, that technology will progress to a place where we can't control it and that it will instead control us. and clearly we're there. it's dehumanizing. it extracts a toll from the physical landscape, the environment. i don't think it's crazy, actually. working at citibank and driving in from some depressing suburb in new jersey for an hour and a half in traffic, to work a soulless job that has no inherent meaning whatsoever, to be mistreated by some disgusting series of supervisors in the HR department, and then to schlep home to a wife who hates you because you've been emasculated. that's the experience of millions of people. is that crazier than living in a cabin alone in montana and growing your own food? it's way crazier.”