Wednesday, May 28, 2014
rodgers rorschachian: what do you see?
forbes | Rodger also authored a 141-page autobiography titled “My Twisted World,”
which was sent to a local news station. He describes the events of his
life since birth, blaming an obsession with World of Warcraft for lack
of social development in middle and early high school; blaming his
father for not teaching him how to woo women; blaming his mother for not
re-marrying into the rich, upper class after his parents separated; and
blaming his own social awkwardness for getting in the way of his making
friends and meeting women. Despite his seemingly-affluent lifestyle, he
felt less rich than and inferior to others in the circles in which he
traveled, lamenting that his father was not a more successful director.
In college, he starts playing the Megamillions Lottery obsessively,
spending hundreds of dollars at a time in the hopes of becoming a
multi-millionaire, which he thinks will allow him to finally “get a
woman.” He visited a shooting range for the first time at age 21 after
he failed to win the lottery when there was a $120 million jackpot.
He expresses jealousy of people in sexual relationships; he seems
more hateful of and angry at specific men — friends and social
acquaintances — than at particular women. Women are vaguer to him,
objects of desire; he sees them as both superior to him and inferior at
the same time. The jealousy gets more and more deranged as the manifesto
goes on. As he becomes a fan of Game of Thrones, he expresses a desire
to a friend to “flay” a couple he sees in a mall food court; he seems
especially enraged when men of other races are dating white women. (This
despite his being of a mixed background; his father is British and his
mother is Malaysian).
He feels the jealousy and sadness that all of us feel at some point
when we are alone, without a romantic partner, except his loneliness
manifests as a desire to cause violence for people who are happy. He
starts acting out by spilling beverages on people he dislikes: coffee on
a couple making out in a Starbucks, ice tea on a couple he saw in a
mall whom he followed with his car. When he was 20, after two women at a
bus stop didn’t smile back at him when he drove by, he turned his car
around and splashed them with his Starbucks latte, taking pleasure in it
staining their jeans, driving away quickly before they could get his
license plate. And months later, when he spotted a happy group of
“popular college kids” — “typical fraternity jocks, tall and muscular”
and “beautiful blonde girls” — playing kickball in a park, he went to a
K-mart and bought a Supersoaker, which he filled with orange juice and
sprayed them, driving away when they chased him, an ominous
foreshadowing of the devastation he would wreak later with a real gun.
At 21, he called his parents ranting about his loneliness and
virginity. They insisted he see a psychiatrist. The next month, he
bought his first gun.
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