It is a reminder that the contemplative life is not without its enemies or its risks. The Unabomber's manifesto is a similar reminder. Its 35,000 words bought a place in The Washington Post with the blood of scholars. Nature is good. Villages were virtuous.
Cities are abominations.
Life would be better without refrigeration. Its ancestors include a long line of intellectuals, from John Ruskin to the Southern Agrarians to Jeremy Rifkin and Kirkpatrick Sale. A murderer for a monstrous cause. And terrorists don't have to hide their full agendas. The Unabomber doesn't simply attack computers or telephones or even technology in general.