Luigi Mangione, in all his confused politics, will be remembered as the Gavrilo Princip who killed #BrianThompson 's Franz Ferdinand. The first shots fired in the class war came out of a 3d-printed youtube-howto gun. Because a very smart young man ready to reap the rewards of his combinatsion of privilege and hard work, until he literally broke his back.
But it was the complete and deliberate failure of the healthcare industry in the USA which crushed him. The moment he turned 26 and dropped off his parent's healthcare plan. Future Gone.
Yeah, he had shitty politics. He came from a private school and did computer science. So much of early politics is shaped by our environment. And maybe it was precisely because of his intimate understanding of well-heeled capitalism, he knew who to blame and where to find him.
Intensity and purpose, ambition and diligence, darkened because society failed him in the exact way that it was designed to fail.
And yeah, his review of Ted Kaczynski on goodreads reads like a manifesto and a confession.
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