As the late Austrian child psychoanalyst Melanie Klein noted, the thwarted infant feels a desire to tear up everything, wipe out both parents. To kill grown people at random with concealed explosives is a cunning acting-out of that secret longing. Hitting out at others from hidden places happens more and more often, especially on the Internet. There, ugly and hostile words emerge from people no one can see. The decency of the adult in community has always depended on the fact that other adults can see him or her.
Some corporate officials are corrupt, but no distinctions are made.
Improving society by killing people is a naivete we are cultivating in our culture. Action movies say that every day. What we could take away from the grievous events is a grasp not of the Unabomber's psychology but of our own, which is full of fantasies. That annulled the act. Oddly enough, his isolation as he fought technology is comparable to the isolation that surrounds the people who are consumed by technology.