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by tullianus 1337 days ago
> However, the details of the Harvard interpretation do not stand up to scrutiny. There is no evidence that Kaczynski read most of the authors whom Chase and Corey cite as his influences, and there is some evidence that Kaczynski did not read some of them. In May 2001, Corey mailed a copy of his article to Kaczynski and asked for his comments. Kaczynski’s reply was unhelpful and dismissive, but his private notes on this article are revealing. He wrote that he had ‘never read anything by’ many of the authors whom Corey and Chase list as the Manifesto’s sources: Alfred Adler, Hannah Arendt,...and E. F. Schumacher. Kaczynski confirmed that he had read B. F. Skinner, as well as three books by Jacques Ellul... But of the authors he read, he denied that the Manifesto was influenced by several of them.

Has the author of this article mailed it to Kaczynski to see what he thinks?