Previously I posted the text of his essay and not my own commentary, so here it is.

Theodore Kaczynski is undoubtedly, a genius. He was the youngest assistant professor at Berkeley in mathematics ever, and still holds the record today.

That raises the question about why he became insane and started mailing bombs from his cabin in Montana, but it's important to note that he was a subject of the CIA mind control project MK Ultra (You can read about this if you want). Who knows what he could have gone on to do, otherwise.

Quoted text is from the essay.

In my opinion the most important and accurate parts of his essay are: Feelings of inferiority, Over Socialization, and The power process (and surrogate activities).

Feelings of Inferiority

The word for a genius has remained genius, and the word for white persons has remained white for a long time. On the other hand, members of groups that subconsciously have feelings of inferiority change their name every 15-20 years because it develops a negative connotation. For example: Idiot>insane>mentally retarded>mentally disabled>aneurotypical, or nigger>colored person>negro>black>african-american>black>person of color>black.

When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him (or about groups with whom he identifies) we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem.

  • Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American Indians), repellent (homosexuals) or otherwise inferior. The leftists themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit to themselves that they have such feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with their problems. (We do not mean to suggest that women, Indians, etc. ARE inferior; we are only making a point about leftist psychology.) Feminists are desperately anxious to prove that women are as strong and as capable as men. Clearly they are nagged by a fear that women may NOT be as strong and as capable as men. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality

For everyone here who dedicated hundreds of hours of his life to attaining a good physique, would it offend you if someone called you a "meathead" or "jock"? Probably not, because you have high self esteem and can see that he is clearly coping with his feelings of inferiority. Likewise, there is really no word you can call a white man that attacks him the same way "Nigger" does a black. "Cracker", "Honkey", "Cumskin", "Colonizer" sound stupid, and roll off the back of a white man like water off a raincoat.

NOTE: I am not arguing that such persons ARE inferior, only that they have deep seated feelings of inferiority.

The leftist’s feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness and of the utility of IQ tests. Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individual’s ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is “inferior” it is not his fault, but society’s, because he has not been brought up properly

  • Notice the masochistic tendency of leftist tactics. Leftists protest by lying down in front of vehicles, they intentionally provoke police or racists to abuse them, etc. These tactics may often be effective, but many leftists use them not as a means to an end but because they PREFER masochistic tactics. Self-hatred is a leftist trait.

  • One of the most important means by which our society socializes children is by making them feel ashamed of behavior or speech that is contrary to society’s expectations. If this is overdone, or if a particular child is especially susceptible to such feelings, he ends by feeling ashamed of HIMSELF.

This also translates into leftists, primarily women, living vicariously through these groups perceived as inferior. For example, the vast majority of participants in the "We want black cock" marches in Europe were young leftist white women.

Oversocialization

This describes the tendency of people (women are particularly affected) to ignore evidence in front of their own eyes, or feel shame for thinking thoughts that society does not approve of. This is highly relevant to the redpill. All the men here have not lived in a different world, or seen different behavior from women than bluepilled men have. The difference is that some men are so socialized they refuse to believe what they know to be true and can see with their own eyes everyday.

Psychologists use the term “socialization” to designate the process by which children are trained to think and act as society demands. A person is said to be well socialized if he believes in and obeys the moral code of his society and fits in well as a functioning part of that society. It may seem senseless to say that many leftists are over-socialized, since the leftist is perceived as a rebel. Nevertheless, the position can be defended. Many leftists are not such rebels as they seem.

  • Some people are so highly socialized that the attempt to think, feel and act morally imposes a severe burden on them. In order to avoid feelings of guilt, they continually have to deceive themselves about their own motives and find moral explanations for feelings and actions that in reality have a nonmoral origin. We use the term “oversocialized” to describe such people.

  • The oversocialized person cannot even experience, without guilt, thoughts or feelings that are contrary to the accepted morality; he cannot think “unclean” thoughts.

  • Generally speaking, the goals of today’s leftists are NOT in conflict with the accepted morality. On the contrary, the left takes an accepted moral principle, adopts it as its own, and then accuses mainstream society of violating that principle.

  • The problems of the leftist are indicative of the problems of our society as a whole. Low self-esteem, depressive tendencies and defeatism are not restricted to the left. Though they are especially noticeable in the left, they are widespread in our society. And today’s society tries to socialize us to a greater extent than any previous society. We are even told by experts how to eat, how to exercise, how to make love, how to raise our kids and so forth.

A large majority of people are simply incapable of thinking in ways they haven't explicitly been trained to think. The socialization starts at such an early age, and I'm sure each of us remember initially resisting believing all the facts we have come to discover because they are "bad".

The Power Process

In order to avoid serious psychological problems, a human being needs goals whose attainment requires effort, and he must have a reasonable rate of success in attaining his goals.

  • But modern society tends to guaranty the physical necessities to everyone in exchange for only minimal effort.

  • We attribute the social and psychological problems of modern society to the fact that that society requires people to live under conditions radically different from those under which the human race evolved and to behave in ways that conflict with the patterns of behavior that the human race developed while living under the earlier conditions. It is clear from what we have already written that we consider lack of opportunity to properly experience the power process as the most important of the abnormal conditions to which modern society subjects people

His point of view is that since the basic human needs are practically guaranteed to everyone in our industrial society, there is no sense of achievement or purpose in fulfilling them. Therefore, people turn to other things he calls "surrogate activities" (Lifting being a popular choice, and a particularly good one).

We use the term “surrogate activity” to designate an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward, or let us say, merely for the qake of the “fulfillment” that they get from pursuing the goal.

  • In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one’s physical needs. It is enough to go through a training program to acquire some petty technical skill, then come to work on time and exert the very modest effort needed to hold a job. The only requirements are a moderate amount of intelligence and, most of all, simple OBEDIENCE. If one has those, society takes care of one from cradle to grave.

  • Many people who pursue surrogate activities will say that they get far more fulfillment from these activities than they do from the “mundane” business of satisfying their biological needs, but that is because in our society the effort needed to satisfy the biological needs has been reduced to triviality. More importantly, in our society people do not satisfy their biological needs AUTONOMOUSLY but by functioning as parts of an immense social machine. In contrast, people generally have a great deal of autonomy in pursuing their surrogate activities.

Our industrial society has left men without any feeling of purpose, or true freedom.

I wouldn't recommend reading the full essay, unless you want to. However, the first ~half is definitely full of good insight.