It is sad how bad he aged. He looked like a gigachad in his youth, but in his old age he looked like fucking McCulkin.
Let that be a fucking lesson to all of you. As you grow older, be neither fat nor scrawny. Be fit. Be muscular. Even 60 year olds can look nice, but not if they neglect themselves from 40-60.
I've always wondered why Uncle Ted didn't select better targets. For example, the small businessman with the computer store. Perhaps a target higher up the computer chain would have been more appropriate.
Ted has been physically active all throughout his life though?
I think you mistake his unkept beard, hair and those badly fitting prison clothes for something else. He looks handsome when he wants.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Yes, added just two questions for now, one of them the whole human environment vs. nature false dichotomy that previously came up in previous threads, (can't find the answer yet in previous threads, know it is there somewhere), and another question the false dichotomy between capitalism/communism in the face of technology, which is a more ellulian concept than directly Ted-related, however really feel it's important to deal with the whole 'muh crapitalism is bad/muh gommunism is bad' thing; Ellul dismantles it like a boss, basically over-simplyfing here, but basically they are two sides to the same coin in the context of tech society, very much as expected.
>where are we heading?
Don't worry, all replies to the questions come from previous threads, (also included UK Tedposter's reply regarding muh Jews) except where no replies were given yet, for example the following questions.
14. Why would almost all humans almost unanimously accept and even be very happy with tech-civ if it were ultimately destructive to humanity?
15. OK, but am a hedonistic individualist! Plus, human beans recycle!!!! Don't you recycle to save the planet you ingrate???
Have composed replies to these two, (and a refined a couple of others) -- up for review by other anons of course.
Ok I give you that.
Yeah, it is a mystery. Almost any other target would have been more ''sympathetic'' to many. Ted may never reveal his target selection because I don't think he has ever admitted to doing any of the bombings in front of court. The information will likely go to the grave with him.
It's an easy mistake to make: all the most popular pictures of him show him as an unkept madman.
Here's my in-progress model of human societies and their fate.
There are two major concepts at play here - Life and Death. This is very intuitive, since evolutionary history is than a struggle to perpetuate one's genes, where the maladaptive survival strategies die out. With humans in particular, this duality extends to long-term planning vs. short-term planning. So, it's Order vs. Chaos, Temperance vs. Hedonism, Ant vs. Grasshopper, God vs. Lucifer, Brain vs. Genitals, Right-wing vs. Left-wing, and so on.
With regards to this political divide, not only is it useful to remember that the Left is an entropic principle that degenerates the Right over time (note how for centuries now, the Right wing keeps getting more and more "diluted" due to the Overton Window moving to the Left), but it's worth noticing the fundamental divide in worldview between these two factions; the Left sees the smallest unit of society as an Atom (Individual), while the Right sees it as a Molecule (Family).
The Left's atomized view of society is present in all its discourse. What is Communism if not an anti-hierarchical idea where each individual should be treated the same? The modern Left's condemnation of Capitalism ironically works in Capitalism's favor (see The System's Neatest Trick by Kaczynski), revealing that Communism and Capitalism are two sides of the same coin. Today's Left wing would never exist without Capitalism, and this is precisely the reason why they fight for women to work (thus bringing wages down) and then importing immigrants to bring the wages down further and replace the native population. This system is naturally unsustainable and it'll collapse catastrophically.
The Right's perception of the Family as the smallest unit is more intuitive since a country is nothing more than a macro-representation of people with the same language, race, culture and religion (to base a nation off an Individual would be to base it on nothing).
Ted is the most based person to ever exist, followed by glorious Julius Evola. +1 Tedscore for Tedposting
This is where Spengler kicks in, with his "four seasons" civilizational model (Unwin and the Hindus had similar models) - at one point, urbanism starts gaining dominance over the rural life. Once that happens, the "Autumn" starts. But this civilization will be fucked far harder than the previous ones, since our Autumn moment - the Industrial Revolution - was far more destructive and significant than any other prior event.
The end goal of both Technology and Leftism is Transhumanism - the endpoint of Luciferianism (why do you think Jobs and Wozniak named their company Apple? ;)). The ancient myth of the Garden of Eden is, among other things, a metaphor for what happens when humanity starts to chase our lower natures. Lucifer is represented as a snake because snakes are forever bound to the ground (unable to transcend the Earth) and because they emblemize our reptile brain.
Note how Leftist media often has Luciferian values. The Industrial Revolution was the point where centuries-old religious, tight-knit, chaste rural lifestyle finally imploded and instead it was replaced by alienated, urban capitalist surroundings. Capitalism more than any other system suits rampant technological growth because it is the political embodiment of unending materialistic, hedonistic thirst for more profit.
No one alive today knows what it means to be God-fearing because no one anymore knows what it means to be Nature-fearing. Humans used to be subordinate to Nature, but now, Nature is subordinate to Humans.
Further inventions, such as the Pill, have further transformed people into short-sighted pleasure seekers and materialists. Sexual laxity and perversions, social isolation, ethnomasochism, atheism, etc., have always been symptoms of a society in decay, but this process is today amplified by the horrendously centralized global technological Machine which exerts a pressure of its own on us.
Ted's thought fits stunningly well with the general Traditionalist view.