Late one night Carmack and his friends
snuck up to a neaby school where they knew there were Apple II machines.
Carmack had read about how a thermite paste could be used to melt through
glass, but he needed some kind of adhesive material, like Vaseline. He mixed
the concoction and applied it to the window, dissolving the glass so they could
pop out holes to crawl through. A fat friend, however, had more than a little
trouble squeezing inside; he reached through the hole instead and opened the
window to let himself in. Doing so, he triggered the silent alarm. The cops
came in no time.
The
fourteen-year-old Carmack was sent for psychiatric evaluation to help determine
on his shoulder. The interview didn't go well. Carmack was later told the
contents of his evaluation: "Boy behaves like a walking brain with legs...
no empathy for other human beings." (They never give a shit, the
psychiatrists.) At one point the main twiddled his pencil and asked Carmack,
"If you hadn't been caught, do you think you would have done somethin like
this again?"
"If I hadn't been caught," Carmack replied honestly,
"yes, I probably would have done that again."
Later he ran into the psychiatrist, who told him, "You know, it's
not very smart to tell someone you're going to go do a crime again." (They
will never understand.)
"I said, 'if I hadn't been caught,' goddamn
it!" Carmack replied. He was sentenced to one year in a small juvenile
detention home in town. Most of the kids were in for drugs. Carmack was in for
an Apple II. (This is revelation. I made a great leap in understanding my
nature. I was always the most intelligent "patient" in the "hospitals"
to which I have been comitted. It is my nature to study Math.,Lang., Chem., and
Physics until I die. Does this imply that there is no free will? And that
Biochemical consequence of brain determines one's life and judicial punishment?
That they must be controlled by any means necessary? Very good for progandanda
of FBI, CIA, and NSA.)
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