The only place where this self-analysis seems to be happening is HA. Everywhere else, it's the same old, same old jib jab.Repatriate wrote:I actually sat down and read through this guy's whole manifesto because he had a similar background to a lot of hapas I know. I've come to the conclusion he was just mentally ill so there's no point in rationalizing the whys and why nots because a lot of his reasoning was very bizarre. His observations about the social isolation of American culture is on point but the conclusions he made and the actions he took were obvious insanity.
It's sad and depressing but predictable. America will never address these mass shootings in any sensible way. If you look at the media right now and the associated comment section every single group has come forth to claim victimhood or argue for a slice of the political pie. [ snip ] There's very little self analysis but lots of political jockeying for position in American society.
I really do think America is a lost cause socially speaking. I have investments in the country still so I hope it doesn't tank during my lifetime but I will do everything in my power to never have to live there again.
As for his insanity, I'm not sure he's any more off the wall, than many other frustrated youths. Realize this, a lot of ppl are mopping around, simply depressed all the time. I recall one angry guy calling me an @sshole, because I was smiling in front of him. I didn't even say a word, nor did I make eye contact. Anyways, after he'd left the scene, I was with a friend and my friend made sure that this character was far away from us before we exited the premises.
For Rodgers, his fixation on the blonde ambition, getting a Marilyn Monroe type, was probably the beginning of the end, as those are the toughest bimbos to lasso in America, esp So Cal. At least after my two failed AW relationships, both white brunettes, I'd expanded my dragnet quite a bit, from ages 22 to 24 (along with doing the occasional Quebec esc@rt/stripper, to relax and keep focus), until I'd left the country & saw that no one needed to date an AW.
I had NO good advice from anyone, during those years. Ppl are all the same, buying into the BS that the right one, was just around the corner, as if relationships in America were like stock picking. It's not. Today, many of those optimists are divorced a/o facing child payments. The percentage of happy couples in America are a minority. Ppl have learned to internalize their disappointments and thus, continue to spew bad advice to maintain that sense of cognitive dissonance.
Rodgers couldn't escape his identification with the false notions of romantic love. If he were in fact, completely cynical, he would have gone to hoes in Nevada, Tijuana, or elsewhere, and labelled women as *all being the same*. That in itself, would have saved him as he'd be another angry ex-pat, who'd eventually calm down, once he finds the right Latin GF.
