For those of you who insist on training the next Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold it's important to remember that the most critical element of producing a domestic terrorist is to establish a general relationship between the trainee and the rest of American society founded upon fear and hatred.
This is best accomplished by showering those who are cruel and violent toward the trainee with positive attention. Award them with athletic scholarships, expensive, hyper-masculine automobiles, and of course...lavish sexual favors from enthusiastic social climbers. Blaming cruelty on the victim is also important.
It's also important to remember that the production of a domestic terrorist by this method is a probabilistic process much like producing an alcohol related traffic fatality. You'll need to reward a large number of cocky, violent sociopaths and blame a lot of victims before being rewarded with a media worthy final product.
Good luck folks.
There will always be far too many training them, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteA better suggestion though, is how does one break free from their "training" if they are unfortunate to be the recipient of it?
Good luck.
DeleteIn America, and a whole lot of other places it is the victim who is blamed for everything and the bully and its enablers are simply building the victim's character by toughening him up.
I've often wondered how things would have turned out if the Columbine killers waited a year or so and then did something that allowed them to escape undetected. Possible alternate history novel here.
You think that blaming cruelty on victims is important?! Since when is it?!
ReplyDeleteThis post is about conditioning tomorrow's terrorists. I mistakenly used the word "training" which is inaccurate. Training involves the teaching of specific skills like shooting a gun or building a bomb. Conditioning involves manipulating how the individual feels and reacts to one situation of another.
DeleteIn order for a domestic terrorist to be able to commit an act that will result in the death and injury of large numbers of ordinary people it's important that he be able to hate them. The normal method of conditioning potential terrorists to hate people in a general manner is to reward individuals who are cruel to them during their adolescence and to blame victims of cruelty for what those cruel individuals do to them. This conditioning is practiced widely within the American public school system and to a slightly lesser extent within general society.
Blaming the behavior of bullies on their victims is normal behavior in America and it creates an enormous pool of potential domestic terrorists waiting for someone with the right skill set to finance, direct, and support them.
Blaming the victims of bullying is stupid and dangerous, but Americans keep right on doing it no matter how many media worthy killers they produce.
On second thought, I may have been wrong for assuming that you supported blaming victims, which is what Izzy Kalman seems to do even though he denies it.
ReplyDeleteIzzy Kalman is dangerous only because he is naïve. Unlike all those roid monkey worshipping coaches, parents, and other loathsome sociopaths who look upon bullying as some sort of character building exercise, Kalman is basically a nice guy promoting a bad idea.
DeleteYou think he's naive? I think he knows exactly what he's doing. He's too consistent to be naive.
DeleteIn our e-mail exchange I never got the feeling he was being manipulative. He strongly reminded me of all those head shrinkers during the 1970's who attempted to examine criminal behavior as if it were a treatable disease.
DeleteHe appears to believe that people are basically good, the hallmark of a dangerously naïve person.
I suggested that I was wrong about my assumption is that I remembered you telling me that you don't support terrorism. And that's good of you not to.
ReplyDeleteBut sadly though, there are people in this world who still train others to be just as hostile as them. For that ,they deserve to be put away.
I don't "support terrorism" in the normal sense of the term. I merely warn readers that the normal behavior of our society is producing a significant number of people who would respond favorably to a realistic offer to become a terrorist.
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