ODYSSEY OF A MAD GENIUS
Your story on Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski [SPECIAL REPORT, April 15] prompts a comparison with the American writer Henry David Thoreau. Both men built cabins in remote areas. Both railed against industrialism, distrusted the government, withdrew from society and rejected progress, materialism, invention and the machine. But Thoreau, while certainly a radical, was also somewhat of a visionary. He communed intensely with nature. The Unabomber suspect, however, like Karl Marx and others who used violence to gain their ends, killed, maimed and fostered civil disorder. Thoreau was a man of learning who gave sage instruction. The...
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