Only Crazy People are Interesting

    People who exist on the edges of the psychological spectrum are always involved in the most fascinating topics. The average person only does average things, and something interesting is not average. Any time something interesting happens, a lunatic is always responsible. Psychology is fascinating because unraveling a person requires understanding their knowledge and history. If domestic terrorism were an academic field, Ted Kaczynski would have a doctorate. Kaczynski opposed society's current relationship with technology and social conformity. So, just as the Average Joe might do, he used society's reliance on technology to lead a bombing campaign against anyone who thought electricity was better than a bonfire feast after the tribe leader killed a wild boar. However, unlike your next-door neighbor, he managed to fool the entire US government for 17 years. If you want to know why and how the Unabomber did this, you only need to watch a three-hour, thirty-four-minute, and thirty-three-second YouTube video to get a decent idea (Wendigoon). This YouTube video essay covers the original psychology driving the deranged mastermind, the forensic sciences used during the bombing investigations, the intricacies of the American logistics network used to deliver these envoys of anarchy, and the battle between the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Justice. However, the second one is only the judges and lawyers who care for your civil rights. To understand how and why a man managed to transform some wacky ideas into life in prison requires you to go beyond psychology and learn something else.

    Unfortunately, there is no YouTube video long enough to cover all of the psychology behind World War 2 and why Joseph Stalin thought people were cheaper than bullets. However, we can sort each dictator into categories based on what you might learn if you want to understand their psychology. Adolf Hitler: politics, effective warfare tactics, and evil atrocities. Benito Mussolini: politics, horrible warfare tactics, and evil atrocities. Joseph Stalin: politics, suicidal warfare tactics, and evil atrocities. We can begin to understand how some of human history's deadliest events and atrocities occurred by breaking down psychology and attaching it to history and how the chosen subject understood the world in the context of their mind. We can even examine the psychology behind doomsday peppers as they attempt to predict the psychology behind other survivors that they must compete against to survive. Anything of remote interest in human history has a psychological extreme attached to it. For each extreme layer of their mind you peel back, more knowledge must be processed to reach the next layer.

    I love psychology because to fully understand the human mind, you have to understand the context in which it existed, thus requiring further knowledge. It is a rabbit hole, and when following it, you learn so much more than just the human mind. People experience many things, and psychology combines unexpected knowledge and history into one mind. If the person is crazy, then you might learn something interesting. There is always another question that can be asked about the human mind in the world. Why did they do this? How did they do this? How did this happen? What happened to allow the previous thing to happen? You can always dive deeper into a rabbit hole of more knowledge; psychology is just the first few levels that introduce you to a new and interesting topic.


References

The Internet’s Favorite Terrorist: The Unabomber’s Life & Legacy by Wendigoon 

https://youtu.be/g5yatQ80GVI?si=gaowJSJpvfVTSvPJ

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