The Transformative Effects of Harvard Experiments

A lot of what we know about Ted Kaczynski's childhood either comes from his brother and his mom, or is him reflecting back on it after he's gripped by full-blown mental illness for decades. It becomes pretty clear that he does not have an accurate picture of himself as a person; this was one of his obsessions. When he talks about the psychological trauma they put him through, it's extremely trivial, meaningless things that he spent his entire life thinking about. Even into his 40s he was writing letters to his mother about how could you do this to me?

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