And we're back at it.
Tonight on TV I have Manhunt: Unabomber "Lincoln":
Fitz tries to find a linguistic connection that will secure an arrest warrant while the FBI closes in on Ted's cabin in Montana...
Last week's episode showed Kaczynski at Harvard; he was only 16, being a genius. However, as a sophomore Kaczynski participated in a study, described by author Alton Chase as a "purposely brutalizing psychological experiment", led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. Subjects were told they would be debating personal philosophy with a fellow student, and were asked to write essays detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations. The essays were turned over to an anonymous attorney, who in a later session would confront and belittle the subject – making "vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive" attacks – using the content of the essays as ammunition, while electrodes monitored the subject's physiological reactions. These encounters were filmed, and subject's expressions of rage were later played back to them repeatedly. The experiment ultimately lasted three years, with someone verbally abusing and humiliating Kaczynski each week. Interesting, yes, but did it contribute to him being mentally unstable? Kaczynski's lawyers wanted to enter an insanity defense to avoid the death penalty (though I don't think they cited the Harvard experience), but Kaczynski rejected this plea. A court-appointed psychiatrist diagnosed Kaczynski as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, but declared him competent to stand trial. Again, very interesting. I don't remember following this while it was happening even though I'm from Montana and he was living in Lincoln, MT.
Currently reading SECRETS IN DEATH by JD Robb. 45th of 45 in series featuring Eve Dallas, a homicide lieutenant in futuristic New York City.
The chic Manhattan nightspot Du Vin is not the kind of place Eve Dallas would usually patronize, and it’s not the kind of bar where a lot of blood gets spilled. But that’s exactly what happens one cold February evening. The mortally wounded woman is Larinda Mars, a self-described “social information reporter,” or as most people would call it, a professional gossip. As it turns out, she was keeping the most shocking stories quiet, for profitable use in her side business as a blackmailer. Setting her sights on rich, prominent marks, she’d find out what they most wanted to keep hidden and then bleed them dry. Now someone’s done the same to her, literally―with a knife to the brachial artery. Eve didn’t like Larinda Mars. But she likes murder even less. To find justice for this victim, she’ll have to plunge into the dirty little secrets of all the people Larinda Mars victimized herself. But along the way, she may be exposed to some information she really didn’t want to know…
Have a good one
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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