Police identified a top suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as an Ivy-educated former data engineer named Luigi Mangione. Authorities nabbed 26-year-old Mangione yesterday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, with a ghost gun and a silencer as well as a handwritten manifesto and four fake IDs. Mangione was a…
Police identified a top suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as an Ivy-educated former data engineer named Luigi Mangione. Authorities nabbed 26-year-old Mangione yesterday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, with a ghost gun and a silencer as well as a handwritten manifesto and four fake IDs. Mangione was allegedly upset with the healthcare industry because of its treatment of his sick relative, according to the New York Post. Meanwhile, in January, he posted a book review of the Unabomber’s manifesto on a now-private Goodreads account, praising him as a “political revolutionary.”
Another “Mind for Murder”?
Recalling Alston Chase’s analysis of the Unabomber, raising the question—can the United States survive the nihilism our educational system now promulgates at every level of our schooling?
We don’t have all the facts yet about Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but early reports indicate he may be another radicalized individual who decided violence is necessary. How did he get radicalized?
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It does not appear, as was originally speculated, that Mangione was someone with a direct grievance against United Healthcare for denying coverage for a medical treatment, though there are reports that his mental state spiraled down on account of chronic pain after back surgery. He seems, however, to have sought out Thompson specifically, just as the Unabomber sought out specific individuals for their role in “industrial society” as targets for his bombs.
Like the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski (who was a math prodigy with degrees from Harvard and the University of Michigan), Mangione is far from being a “marginalized” or “oppressed” person. He comes from a wealthy family, and attended fancy prep schools before matriculating at Penn.
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In other words, our education system, from the high schools that assign Howard Zinn in order to make students despise America for its supposed wholesale injustice, to our universities that teach unalloyed nihilism dressed up as “postmodernism” or “critical theory,” is mass producing new generations of alienated souls who have contempt for our culture and history. To be sure, 99.99% of students do not become murderers, but as Chase rightly puts it, “Although the vast majority of educated people never turn to crime, history reveals that intellect is, indeed, a prerequisite for accomplishing mass murder.”
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And thus the key question everyone needs to confront directly: Can America survive the rot in our educational and cultural institutions? And if not, what is to be done about it?
But yet with all his "brilliant Ivy League education" he managed to be eating in plain sight in McDonalds for all to see. He probably knew he would get caught and wants to be written about in the history books. Either that or he's really stupid.
He had to know he would be caught. From what I have read, he's been on a steep downhill spiral for several months. I feel for his family. It's too bad no one got him help. Always seems to be the case in these shootings.
I also read (Daily Mail) he was doing A lot of psychedelic's. As someone who (back in the day) did more psychedelic's by accident than most people did on purpose, This is not a Good Thing. Thing is You never know what will happen.
Police identified a top suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as an Ivy-educated former data engineer named Luigi Mangione. Authorities nabbed 26-year-old Mangione yesterday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, with a ghost gun and a silencer as well as a handwritten manifesto and four fake IDs. Mangione was allegedly upset with the healthcare industry because of its treatment of his sick relative, according to the New York Post. Meanwhile, in January, he posted a book review of the Unabomber’s manifesto on a now-private Goodreads account, praising him as a “political revolutionary.”
Another “Mind for Murder”?
Recalling Alston Chase’s analysis of the Unabomber, raising the question—can the United States survive the nihilism our educational system now promulgates at every level of our schooling?
Steven F. Hayward
Dec 10, 2024
https://stevehayward.substack.com/p/another-mind-for-murder
We don’t have all the facts yet about Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but early reports indicate he may be another radicalized individual who decided violence is necessary. How did he get radicalized?
(Snip)
It does not appear, as was originally speculated, that Mangione was someone with a direct grievance against United Healthcare for denying coverage for a medical treatment, though there are reports that his mental state spiraled down on account of chronic pain after back surgery. He seems, however, to have sought out Thompson specifically, just as the Unabomber sought out specific individuals for their role in “industrial society” as targets for his bombs.
Like the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski (who was a math prodigy with degrees from Harvard and the University of Michigan), Mangione is far from being a “marginalized” or “oppressed” person. He comes from a wealthy family, and attended fancy prep schools before matriculating at Penn.
(Snip)
In other words, our education system, from the high schools that assign Howard Zinn in order to make students despise America for its supposed wholesale injustice, to our universities that teach unalloyed nihilism dressed up as “postmodernism” or “critical theory,” is mass producing new generations of alienated souls who have contempt for our culture and history. To be sure, 99.99% of students do not become murderers, but as Chase rightly puts it, “Although the vast majority of educated people never turn to crime, history reveals that intellect is, indeed, a prerequisite for accomplishing mass murder.”
(Snip)
And thus the key question everyone needs to confront directly: Can America survive the rot in our educational and cultural institutions? And if not, what is to be done about it?
(Snip)
But yet with all his "brilliant Ivy League education" he managed to be eating in plain sight in McDonalds for all to see. He probably knew he would get caught and wants to be written about in the history books. Either that or he's really stupid.
Given his "brilliant Ivy League education" I'm gonna go with Stupid.
There's a line from Babylon 5.
Boggs (head bad guy) "They Can't Be This Stupid Can they!"
Sniper (another bad guy) "Always Bet On stupidity."
He had to know he would be caught. From what I have read, he's been on a steep downhill spiral for several months. I feel for his family. It's too bad no one got him help. Always seems to be the case in these shootings.
I also read (Daily Mail) he was doing A lot of psychedelic's. As someone who (back in the day) did more psychedelic's by accident than most people did on purpose, This is not a Good Thing. Thing is You never know what will happen.