I had to deal with a psychopath who was stalking and threatening to kill me and my husband. I'm not much inclined to listen to what you have to say = having dealt with one up close and personal. Thanks for the attempt to school me dude, but I know more about these fuckups than you'll ever know reading third and fourth hand acconts of whatever it is that you read.
At 02:41 PM 12/17/2012, Lenin's Tomb wrote:
>On 17 Dec 2012, at 18:55, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
>
> > Klebold and Harris weren't engaged in explosive rage.
>
>On the contrary, there seems to be quite a lot of evidence for long
>building 'explosive rage' on their part. Go ahead and look at Harris's
>notebooks, or the transcripts from Klebold's tapes for examples. Or just
>read Cullen actually - where he talks about Harris's website entries, and
>Klebold's "fits of rage". And there seem to be many complex reasons for
>that rage.
>
> > Klebold was a pscyhopath who was unable to feel empathy. he was
> perfectly willing to lie, cheat, kill, and steal simply to get what he
> wanted - whatever it was. they have no sense of connection to other
> people. Harris was a depressive.
>
>It's important to get this right, so that the evidence of their respective
>behaviours is understood. Harris is the one alleged to have been a
>psychopath according to Cullen; Klebold was the depressive. (At least,
>this was according to the original Slate article - perhaps the book argues
>to the contrary). It's striking that the evidence is so patchy that the
>'psychopath' diagnosis could potentially be stretched to cover either
>Harris or Klebold.
>
>By the way, it's not impossible to reach a diagnosis based on material
>collected post-mortem, but anything offered as such has to be treated as
>highly provisional, not as a set of facts. We don't know about Klebold or
>Harris's 'inner life', as it were. We have scrappy evidence of interviews
>with relatives and classmates, their own undoubtedly self-deceiving and
>self-serving testimonies in written and oral form, some experience that
>Harris had with a psychiatrist to deal with his anger and depression
>issues (yeah, explosive anger). It's a serious mistake to think this
>gives us a definitive diagnosis, or reason to say with absolute certainty
>that Harris could not 'feel' (this seems implausible), even if the
>category of 'psychopath' wasn't just a placeholder.
>
>Mark Ames is on much stronger ground by focusing on the social relations,
>hierarchies, families, authorities, cultural environment and so on that
>the pair were embedded in. Because this is where the carefully cultivated
>barrier between interior and exterior, between the psychic and the social,
>or between subject and structure, breaks down.
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