while I find kacziynski contemptible, I live rurally and what he describes about relating to nature is accurate. your ear and other senses change. when you hunt you are the forest, or at least in nature of it. you can watch a fire burn at least as long as you might have watched a movie, and the experience of imagination is purer. you get a sense of what's left and essential about yourself without reinforcement, and psychologically of what's furniture and what's foundation.<p>what made him pathetic was he never escaped the system he hated. what he struck out at were not its mechanisms and gears, but yet still just symbols he thought he could destroy to direct its attention to his writing. imo he never found the base reality that is immediately accessible to anyone who doesn't impose their conditions on it. ask a parent about what's true and real and good or someone missing a hand about compassion.<p>If you're interested in this stuff, read just Walden and go camping, he didn't have any particularly meaningful insight into anything that's worth following.