/s. Well of course not. An evil firearm took possession of his mind and forced him to commit this heinous act. What other explanation could there possibly be? s/.
Hollywood had nothing to do with this. The killer was a delusional psychopath.
No.
They were killed by an evil madman.
Gotta love the liberal society, where its never the fault of the perp, its always someone elses fault..the gun, the knife, the booze, the car, the drugs..never the fault of the PERSON..I have yet to hear anyone in the media actually say Elliot Rodger is responsible for what he did..that would take actual common sense
“In other times and other places, people like Elliot Rodger may have become a hermit, a priest or found another objective.”
So one becomes a priest because one cannot get laid? Damn. What kind of warped mind does this writer have? Looks to me like the blind leading the blind.
What SSRIs were found in his system?
Has anyone looked into the possibility that he may have been a closeted homosexual?
He couldn’t own girls.
How are you any different from those who blame the gun? You blame something not just inanimate, but conceptual.
In today’s society anyone who can’t get someone, or something, to have sex with is hard to imagine.
The only responsible party is dead. No one else is to blame.
yup,,, this village raised that idiot alright...
First off, he wasn’t a “son of Hollywood privilege.” He had only the most tangential connections to Hollywood growing up — his dad was a commercial director, which is low on the food chain, and he lived 25 miles from the center of the Industry.
His dad lost a ton of money on a failed documentary, and the family had to move out of their upper-middle-class digs. He spent his teen years with a struggling single mother in a rental house in down-market Canoga Park in the Northwest San Fernando Valley. He rode the bus every day to high school and resented every second of it.
The whole family — mother, father, stepmother — were shyster wannabes trying to break in to Hollywood, adopting the “fake it till you make it” strategy, and keep up appearances. His dad finally got an AD job on “The Hunger Games,” after the kid was grown. Hence the Beemer and the five hundred bucks a month to go to college.
So how is his rampage attributed to being wealthy or a product of Hollywood? He was neither. He was Jay Gatsby, if Jay Gatsby had gone on a narcissistic rampage fueled by thwarted ambition instead of figuring out a way to be successful.
And how come when “urban youths” murder strangers playing the “knock-out” game, which is indisputably motivated by racial and gender animus, no one suggests they’re mentally ill? They’re simply amoral, which manifests as evil.
Why then are we so quick to attribute mental illness to what are clearly the actions of an amoral, evil white kid? It’s soft racism. If it’s a white kid, the chattering class (white) is more comfortable talking about delusion and illness than the devil. Because parents with white teenagers — well, it all hits too close to home.
And if you read his manifesto, there is no hint — none — of delusion and disassociation from reality. He had a very clear view of the Hollywood food chain, who succeeds socially in that society and why or why not, and the brutal Thunderdome that is the Los Angeles private and public school systems.
Just because you fail at football doesn’t mean you don’t understand the game.
He failed and lashed out.
No. His victims were killed by him.
My personal opinion is that he was poorly parented. But it was not his parents who killed his victims, it was him.
He chose to do it and he enjoyed doing it.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I do not think so. To attempt to ascribe blame to his culture presumes that at some point you started off with a fairly normal individual. I do not think that was the case. You start off with a schizophrenic (his only named psychiatrist, Dr. Sophy, reportedly prescribed an anti-schizophrenia drug, Risperidone) and you end up with one. Not that the culture didn’t hurt him, especially his obsession with his own virginity and his blinding hatred for happy couples, and, as well, his desperate desire for social status. I suspect, though, that his culture served to focus the crazy, not to cause it. Just my $0.02.