05-25-2014, 11:27 AM
(05-24-2014, 08:35 PM)Duchess Wrote: This is a link to his manifesto. It's entitled - My Twisted World - The Story of Rodger Elliot.
I was going to copy & paste it but it's quite lengthy, it encompasses his entire life from the moment of his birth.Manifesto
Did you read any of it, Duchess? I skipped some years, but read most of it last night between chores.
He wasn't a bad writer and there were points where I thought, "wow, this kid was very open an in-touch with his feelings -- particularly in regards to envy and hate". It didn't appear, to me, that he even realized those feelings were negative -- they just were what they were, to him.
Anyway, hard to believe that all of his "issues" stemmed from lack of attention and sex from girls, but I do believe that's what he believed. Never in his account did he ever mention even approaching a girl, btw. He just hated the boys who got girls and hated the girls who went for other boys. Either he left out rejected approaches, or more likely to me, he just expected girls to come to him.
Majorly 'effed up individual, for sure, but I didn't get the sense that he had Asperger's or was insane when I was reading his story in his own words. I got the sense that he overcompensated his inferiority complex by developing a superiority complex and devising plans to rid the planet of things that caused him pain rather than put forth any effort to improve his life. Hateful, entitled, murderous asshole.
Hopefully, the psychiatric professionals can garner something useful from analyzing his manifesto (and that of Christopher Dorner) -- maybe it'll help in understanding and identifying these kinds of fermenting killers in our midst in advance and spur some meaningful dialogue on how to handle such individuals, before it's too late. Doubt it, but that's my hope.
(05-25-2014, 07:59 AM)thekid65 Wrote: I watched them yesterday. I got the impression he was acting a bit, didn't you? Especially with that punk-ass laugh...I wanted to reach through my monitor and bitch-slap him. Sounded too fake..and Daddy is a film director.
He came across as a whiny little bitch to me, it's no wonder he had problems getting women. He's not a bad looking guy, but I'm sure when he opened his pie-hole to a lady, it was an instant turn off.
Oh yeah, he did seem to be acting. I think the Hollywood lifestyle, red carpets, and such were part of his make-up. He was a drama king.
In his manifesto, he's generally positive about his dad, but he does mention near the end about his realization that dad was never really there for him much in his times of crisis (but he never mentions telling his dad about his struggles) and that dad was not around much. In the documentation of his early years, he notes how he admired his dad for being able to attract and snag a new woman so shortly after divorcing his mom. Maybe part of his motivation to do something "big" was driven by trying to get even with, or noticed by, his director father? IDK.
There are probably a lot of frustrated lonely men out there harboring festering resentments, IMO. I suspect Elliot Rodger will be seen as a hero to other extremists who also blame women and society for their own shortcomings -- hoping copycats don't start emerging.