Well I've spent way too much time today thinking about and reading comments from every corner of the internet on all of this. I can't say it's been for nothing. In retrospect, I should've been taking notes because there could be some fascinating conclusions to be drawn from the reactions to this particular set of events.
It's too late to put into words properly, but I'm much more pessimistic about the way our culture is developing and about the internet as a method of communication with confusing and complex topics than I was 24 hours ago
Yes, I sound a bit detached partially because I'm desensitized to yet another mass killing. Yes, I'm keenly aware of how fucked up that is. I'm also aware of how much our society would have to change in order to radically reduce the rate of occurrence of these mass killings.
I'm not sure if I'm immoral for saying this, but his manifesto is fascinating. Absolutely horrid, but fascinating. I'm trying to understand how this train of thought and mentality is developed.
Thing is, each human psyche is a unique compendium of conclusions drawn from everything that individual has experienced in their life, with each conclusion being influenced by an innumerable variety of environmental and genetic dispositions. In reality, you would need to be a supremely well-educated and experienced psychologist that had several sessions with the killer in order to have anything approaching a properly educated guess on how to crack this nut. The human brain simply processes too much at once for us to notice and the brain is also notoriously poor at remembering details, let alone communicating these details accurately to another person with their own unique psyche to process those details.
Luckily for you, we're on the internet, where we have hundreds of thousands of brand-new psychologists today, and they've each managed to narrow the entirety of the cause of this guy's insanity they've never met down to one single thing, although which single thing is still up for debate. I've actually seen all of these today.
Take your pick, and apparently you can only pick one:
Guns, bad parenting, videogames, American culture, misogyny, heritage, money, women, men, public schooling, white privilege, privatized medicine, Satan, welfare, narcissism, bad genes, feminism, the NRA, unmoderated Internet forums, Aspergers, psychologists, pure evil, Obamacare, rape culture, being born under a bad sign, Pokemon, Jesus, not enough Jesus, the patriarchy, steroids, fluoride in the drinking water, Greek life, alpha males, and, of course, the liberal media. To name but a few.
....he hated the player (other successful men) and he hated the game too (came to see sex and women's 'bestial' choice of other men as something that should be abolished).
