Re: Nice Plant #7: Get me off of this planet
I skimmed through it and was struck by his attitude about his BMW. He was happy to have a better car than most other people his age. But in the next breath allowed that his mother "should" have provided it for him much sooner. As I said earlier, combining his "manifesto" with his last minute video rants gives us a glimpse into the face of madness most of us never see. What's really scary is that he had been seeing mental health professionals for years. Yet, somehow, none of them snapped to the fact that this kid was a ticking time bomb. His parents realized it, too late to stop him.
Finished reading Elliot Rodger's manifesto.
Wow.
It went from easy-going to sad to depressing to extreme evil very quickly. I did feel bad for him, because some of the thoughts he had are ones that I feel almost all people have at points in their lives. Obviously not the ones about murdering and enslaving women, but others about loneliness, being accepted, getting experiences out of life. The problem is most people eventually move past those thoughts, but he obsessed over them, and because of his narcisicism, he always thought he was right. Any attempts anyone made to help him were dismissed because he felt jobs were beneath him, that his way of thinking was the only way of thinking, and he became deranged at the thought he was owed something because he was better than everyone else.
I skimmed through it and was struck by his attitude about his BMW. He was happy to have a better car than most other people his age. But in the next breath allowed that his mother "should" have provided it for him much sooner. As I said earlier, combining his "manifesto" with his last minute video rants gives us a glimpse into the face of madness most of us never see. What's really scary is that he had been seeing mental health professionals for years. Yet, somehow, none of them snapped to the fact that this kid was a ticking time bomb. His parents realized it, too late to stop him.