Ted Kaczynski Cancer Letter

Ted Kaczynski has been diagnosed with cancer. 😢 Dear Mr. Kaczynski, I thank you for your kind letter postmarked December 23, 2021, which I received on January 27, 2022. You conclude your letter with, “I hope all will soon. There is yet work to be done.” You are right. There is work to be done. A lot of work. In fact, the work has barely begun. But I won’t be able to do much of it. I’m not going to “get well soon”—or ever—because I have terminal cancer. I can’t expect to live more than two years at the outside, and I may well be dead in less than a year, so the work will have to be done by younger people. What about you? What are you doing? I’m told that you’ve ordered a paperback French & English dictionary for me, for which I thank you. But, in relation to the problems of space, the matter of the dictionary is trivial. Have you been following the recommendations in sections 28 & 29 of chapter Four of Anti-Tech Revolution? Have you made any effort at organization, in accordance with Rule 61 of Chapter Three? If you want to organize but don’t know where to begin, let me know, and I’ll give you some suggestions. But my suggestions will not be easy to carry out. We don’t want the dilettantes who are ready to do only what is easy. We need people who are capable of total commitment and are prepared to take any task, no matter how difficult or unpleasant or time-consuming it may be. Yours for Wild Nature Ted Kaczynski

A screenshot of a tweet claims that Ted Kaczynski has been diagnosed with cancer, followed by a photograph of a handwritten letter attributed to him. The darkly comic punchline is that even while discussing his terminal illness, Kaczynski remains focused on unfinished revolutionary work and demands total commitment from younger followers. It is used as an absurd, morbid reaction to someone who stays intensely committed to a cause despite terrible personal news.

• @eternalclassic / 8095 2022-02-07