By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-12-09 20:31:54 | Updated at 2024-12-25 05:56:37
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The man detained in connection with the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shared a series of quotes from the 'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski online, along with others referencing health and sickness.
Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League grad from Maryland, posted at least a half a dozen quotes from the homegrown terrorist, who plagued the nation for nearly 20 years with his homemade bombs.
'Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,' read one excerpt from a Kaczynski quote on Mangione's Goodreads page.
'The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress,' read another.
Mangione was arrested Monday in Altoona, Pennsylvania in connection with last week's fatal shooting in Manhattan.
He was caught with a 3D-printed gun, as well as a handwritten manifesto, similar to the mathematician-turned-bomber.
Kaczynski, who died of cancer last year, famously saw his reign of terror thwarted after his brother recognized his writing style in Industrial Society and Its Future, an anti-technology essay he wrote and had published in The Washington Post.
Mangione, a computer science major at at the University of Pennsylvania, appeared to find inspiration from his fellow Ivy Leaguer, quoting extensively from Industrial Society and Its Future on his Goodreads page.
He also included quotes ranging from Socrates and Marcus Aurelius to Aldous Huxley and Dr. Suess.
'They say a healthy person has a thousand wishes but a sick person has only one wish—to get well,' read another quote on his Goodreads page attributed to bestselling fitness author Joe De Sena from The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better.
Mangione was a known anti-capitalist, according to his social media
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