After Kaczynski graduated from the University of Michigan, Kaczynski taught at the University of California, but according to Maria Haberfeld, author of A new understanding of terrorism, Haberfeld notes that “Kaczynski continued his pattern of having limited contact with others at Berkeley” (Haberfeld, 2009, 38), which furthered Kaczynski’s isolation patterns. In 1969, Kaczynski inexplicably resigned his teaching position with the overriding concern that technology was to enslave mankind. In the early 1970’s, Ted Kaczynski alienated himself to the wilderness of Montana to live primitively. Kaczynski’s continuous alienation from society had a monumental effect on his psyche, intensifying his own anti-government and anti-technology philosophy.
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In May of 1988, McVeigh went through basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, where McVeigh’s Army roommate noticed McVeigh gravitating towards an elder soldier, Terry Nichols, who both felt their lives were directionless and both had an affinity for firearms. McVeigh and Nichols shared many similar qualities, including discovering that they are both “survivalists who believed warnings in gun magazines that the government would take away their weapons” (Russakoff, 1995). With a survivalists mindset, McVeigh began to stockpile food, water and guns and in 1988 McVeigh and a high school friend, David Darlak, bought 10 acres of woodland where they practiced hunting and planned to build a survivalist bunker. Even more significant, McVeigh’s Army roommate noted that during the first week of basic training, “McVeigh boasted to fellow soldiers that he already knew how to make a powerful bomb using a bottle” (Russakoff, 1995), and then detailed how to create a Molotov
In May of 1988, McVeigh went through basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, where McVeigh’s Army roommate noticed McVeigh gravitating towards an elder soldier, Terry Nichols, who both felt their lives were directionless and both had an affinity for firearms. McVeigh and Nichols shared many similar qualities, including discovering that they are both “survivalists who believed warnings in gun magazines that the government would take away their weapons” (Russakoff, 1995). With a survivalists mindset, McVeigh began to stockpile food, water and guns and in 1988 McVeigh and a high school friend, David Darlak, bought 10 acres of woodland where they practiced hunting and planned to build a survivalist bunker. Even more significant, McVeigh’s Army roommate noted that during the first week of basic training, “McVeigh boasted to fellow soldiers that he already knew how to make a powerful bomb using a bottle” (Russakoff, 1995), and then detailed how to create a Molotov