{"id":5389,"date":"2008-11-01T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2008-11-01T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T23:38:03","slug":"defusing-the-unabomber-why-individualism-will-triumph-regardless-of-any-temporary-setbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5389\/defusing-the-unabomber-why-individualism-will-triumph-regardless-of-any-temporary-setbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Defusing the Unabomber: Why individualism will triumph regardless of any temporary setbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spend so much time picking at our scabs that we but rarely notice how amazingly rich we are, and how much richer we are getting day-by-day. There are at least a thousand men and women as smart as Aristotle walking the earth right now. If you are a computer geek, you surely know the name of Donald Knuth, but what you may not have considered is that there are 10,000 Knuths alive right now. If you click on this link<\/a>, you will read an account of an extraordinary scientific achievement, but the most extraordinary thing of all is how ordinary such accounts have become, how commonplace, how much to-be-expected. We are so rich that we cannot even begin to count<\/em> our riches.<\/p>\n

I wrote this essay just over thirteen years ago, when the internet was very young, but it is apposite, I think, today and every day.<\/p>\n

–GSS<\/p>\n

 
Defusing the Unabomber<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve been trying for a week to write something about the Unabomber and his pesky manifesto, and I can’t seem to get the job done. In this voice, the studious essayist voice, I can’t take him seriously. In the Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie voice, the only other style I’m working in right now, I can’t make light of the murder of three innocents.<\/p>\n

I can make fun of anything. I’ve been writing Willie stories for ten years, and, with few exceptions, all of those stories ridicule the ridiculous. I have 308 words of a Willie story about the Unabomber. In it, he is represented as a cowboy wino who has just sold a pint of blood and who terrorizes strangers by popping paper bags.<\/p>\n

But I can’t work with him in even so grotesque and ludicrous a shape. I think of him and in my mind’s eye I see children making angels in the snow. And then I see those children blown to a bloody pulp for committing the horrid act of creating artifacts of technology.<\/p>\n

I see William Shakespeare and I hear him denounced as a mere hobbyist. Was he brother to the Queen? A Lord of the court? A lowly actor with a potent muse? Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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