Via Dr. John Ray's "Of Interest" blog: Chase's take on the Unabomber is that he is the social product of a counter cultural Leftist family, an anti-technological and relativistic academic culture, and a bizarre set of psychological experiments at Harvard... Kaczynski began imitating monkeywrenching by stringing wire across trails to garrotine backcountry bikers, destroyed logging equipment, and shot at helicopters, and vandalized homes.