Very curious - what are the stylistic signatures of psycopathy?
Very curious - what are the stylistic signatures of psycopathy?
Of course, I'm basing that on his autobiography which might be nothing but bullcrap. I looked through it, and the takeaway is that he was a sullen, jealous coward his whole life--but sufficiently introspective to write 137 pages about that life in which almost nothing happened, and nothing at all happened that he himself instigated. You know, until the end. Note also that the bio was coherent and competently structured, whereas in his videos he's barely able to sputter out a normal-sounding sentence. Psychopaths tend to be eloquent and charismatic.
Too bad there isn't a history eraser button we can use to retroactively deny him fame for this.
There is also this part:
"I am Elliot Rodger...Magnificent, glorious, supreme, eminent, Divine! I am the closest thing there is to a living god."
In his ideal world, there would be a benevolent dictator -- "benevolent" in this context includes exterminating women by starvation, save for a few that are kept locked up in labs where they exist only for reproduction -- and he suggests himself as this dictator. According to his theory if there are no women there will be no sex, and men can rise to higher levels of achievement (notice how he blames his shortcomings on others). He also believes that there would be no love in such a world, though he seems to have a poorly developed notion of love as an emotion (he speaks of love in terms of sex, and never associates love with any specific person other than himself).