Elliot Rodger and visions in His Twisted World

The stark realities of raising a sociopath among America’s upper-crust, while maintaining denial about one’s parental and social responsibility to the world at large, is and always has been a money based problem. The wealthy has always projected the reasons the poor commit atrocities, but when it comes to the own, the standard answers fall in a single category, “they suffered from mental problems”.

It’s been three days now, since America’s most recent serial massacre has taken place, in the beautiful city of Isla Vista, California—just a stone’s throw from Santa Barbara and Montecito. Luxurious homes, perched ever so gently on rolling, catching the daily costal breeze, of the Pacific Ocean, as it soothingly pounds the shore, not far from University of California Santa Barbara. (UCSB)

Here’s where the story of Elliot Rodger—begins. Without the killing of seven innocent people, we may have never know how this serial killer gestated from their very beginnings, till that One Final Mad Act on May 24^th, 2014.

We’ve heard this story all too often. Silver spoon fed children, neglecting the reality of mental illness within their own family structure, hoping that one day, the birth of this child with a twisted mind, will eventually straighten out--if only the parent could throw enough money at their embarrassing offspring. Elliot Rodger is a Max Factor redux. A hypersexual deviant, recognizable to all, and well hidden among the well-to-do until that fateful day, when his overriding sexual frustration translated into murder and mayhem.

 It seems, Elliot Rodgers walked the same path that many mentally ill, neglected rich children do, only to act out his final fantasy, called The Day of Retribution. The day he would be “godlike” to all those who he apparently felt misjudged his outstanding “superiority”. In his final words to the world—found in “My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger; By Elliot Rodger [1], a 141 page Elliot Rodger manifesto, published by Elliot Rodger, and long before going on a massive drive-by killing spree, Elliot Rodger explains in fine detail, to anyone that wishes to listen, that he—was never, ever normal.

That he—had ever intention of killing women and the men that flaunted them, ever so boldly in front of him, without possessing all considerations for his delicate senses. See-Elliot Rodger had almost everything a young adult male could ask for, except for, the ever elusive “sex” with “beautiful, blonde women”—which he claimed as his birthright.
 

I read the manifesto. It was not an easy piece to embrace. Filled with misogyny and your basic terminal psychopathic reasoning for having ill feeling toward women, people of color, his parents, his traitorous friends, and the system in general, it’s hard to believe that Elliot never stood out like a sore thumb within his community, and that his mental shortcomings were not noticeable to the average person that crossed his path. Possibly because they people he engaged with on some level felt the same way he did about racism, misogyny, and fascism--but never considered taking it to such extremes like he did when acting out his Day Of Retribution.

The devil was always in the details, but when one is seemingly wealthy, the ball is not only dropped, the pattern of continued excuses for such behavior usually leaves a trail of dead bodies, broken siblings, stalled parents, and very confused authority and law enforcement figures. They played Elliot's fiddle while Rome burned, and now they are all silent about the young man that was raised in their presence. It shows their culpability in this predetermined assassination of people they felt little for--by the extension of Elliot's actions.

Hypersexuality, is a common factor in the case of most serial killers. We can point the finger at the weapons used, or the video games absorbed by a feeble, un-expansive young man, who abhorred diversity in the American population in general. Even in today’s modern world, his hypersexuality is far over shadowed and outweighed, or misrepresented as misogynistic behavior towards women. Was Elliot really any different that an Donald Sterling? Or Cliven Bundy? Those that feel entitled to use the platform of race as an excuse to be abusive within American society?  

While reading Elliot’s manifesto, I came across a section near its last pages—those which he begins telling us that he will definitely complete this Day of Retribution at all cost, with no more delays. He had recently received a visit from seven well-armed and well-trained law enforcement officer’s to his meager apartment in Isla Vista, which he felt that this particular visit was instigated by his biological mother for one reason or another. It seems that he’s posted some disturbing videos on his youtube account, but took them down before law enforcement visited his humble apartment to discuss what his actual intention are. I viewed those that remained posted. The ones that were left up by Elliot, or those that were not taken down by youtube for violating Terms of Service.

 Elliot Rodger: The Retribution Video ***

Yet, reaching deeper in his manifesto, we’ll find that he set the date of mass destruction as May 24^th of this year. He detailed the exact timing that he’d execute his Day of Retribution, and the manner in which he’ll act it out. He tells us what weapons he’ll use are the one that he’s recently bought in Goleta, and how he will end it all with a final blow to himself, by his own hand, with simultaneous self-inflicted gun shot wounds, bolstered by a deadly cocktail of Xanax and Vicodine, washed down with hard liquor, just to ensure his death.

All of this was within his final manifesto to the humanity that he hated, along with every detail of his misogynistic war he felt that he must wage against the female population of the world. He refers to his treatise as “a dark story of sadness, anger and hatred”.  He says this by the second paragraph, so no one should have ever been confused of how deeply disturbed the young man was. He’s a member of PUAhate.com (Pick Up Artist), which is a social networking site for men who quickly become victims of the own hypersexuality, taken advantage of by the purveyors of the get laid quick scams, fed alternately and fueled by hours of overly sexualized on-line gaming, Girls Gone Wild videos and internet pornography. The rip offed male, who disassociates he outward actions, as part of the problem—when it come to people in social setting in general.

I found myself intrigued by the fact that he tells us of being outed by someone who must have witnessed his ultimate plan videos on youtube and reported him to the authorities. He amused himself with their audacity, but they must have feared him, because if it was his mother or psychiatrist, to have him a adjudicated as a danger to others and himself is a process that was over looked by those who cared for him. He may not have been able to by handguns, had the authorities been warned about his problems long before May 24^th.

I find it fascinating that those that came to stop him, seven law officers strong, trying to incite furtive action between themselves and Elliot failed--while allowing themselves to be talked out digging a little deeper into his on-line threats of annihilating the sexually active young men and women of Isla Vista, one by one at their own sorority houses, or wherever he may find them on that fateful day of May 24^th. He socially referred to his own school as the ‘University of California Spoiled Brats’, while never seeing it in himself.

The list of violations he acted out prior to May 24^th, were signals being sent to his parents, and quite recently, parents of these murderers in waiting, spoil them beyond reality. Elliot just had been the recipient of a 2014 BMW 3 Series. Why yes, why not give a $32,000 plus vehicle to a college student, who’s not only failing in school socially, but one who’s never worked a day in his life, and wasted money like there’s was no tomorrow. 22 years old and still receiving a substantial allowance, with a fully paid for shared apartment housing, and car with car insurance, tells me that such a young man could never understand his peers. Never having to work a single day in his life, he had too much time on his hands. So, he used that free time to execute a plan to kill everyone who rejected him, including his stepmother, brother, and father if necessary.

He was angry at world, and the world around him pretended that he wasn’t angry at all. His story is not a unique one, other than the fact that he documents and spelled out for us all how one should never raise a child. How one should not throw money at a child and his problems, like that will fix his social ills. How one should never ignore the signal that a child has degenerated into a loathsome, vile, wretched human being—and there may be no turning him around by throwing money at the situation. Elliot was a walking, talking, breathing red flag of  ‘something bad will eventually happen”, but his parents got on board too late to fix what they created. His tantrums were allowed, and money and distance were how his parents chose to deal with the life they created.

He documented his grievances, and gave us insight what steps to take when a child feels entitled. He shows us who built him to be exactly as he was, from the day of his birth—or as far back as he can actually remember. Whether it’s bullshit or not, it’s in our face to deal with. As far as I can see, he’s being honest about it all—as we watch his eventual demise played out with the precision of a serial killer-created because he never bonded with anyone, and the daily routine of just being in the Elliot was a harsh reality of being spoiled rotten to his evil core. Kindness never entered his mind, nor did it enter in one paragraph of his manifesto against his fellow man. Telling us, that he allowed us to fail him at every turn, never having to look out for him self, is testimony of how deeply engrained his hatred of life became over the course of 22 years.

Some serial killers go down in history, for the purpose of being studied by sociologist and psychiatrist. I don’t see Elliot being one of those people, even if he has written his final words for us to ponder. Yet, given this reality, maybe we should give his writings a view, to see where things may go wrong, with even the most well intentions of well off people, and those of high social standing who influence our society.

Elliot had every reason to live yet chose not to, and took seven people with him, acting out his Day of Retribution in his Twisted World, that no one acknowledged until it was too late. 

[1] My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger; By Elliot Rodger, Scribd, 141 pages, uploaded by Mathew Keyes

[***] As of May 29th, 2014, youtube has removed/shutdown ALL of Elliot Rodger videos, and none can be viewed unless they were captured on your personal P.C. As a side note--the dissemination of this video was being used in conjunction with other informational studies, such as Elliot Rodger 'mainfesto', not for the sole purpose of encouraging adherence to such hate filled messages, but for historical documentation purposes of America's dysfunctional youth in a supposed post-racial society. 

The deletion of ALL of Elliot Rodger videos by youtube proves once again that media is not free in America and is controlled by certain powers, and that when it comes to racism, misogyny, and practiced fascism by America's elite families--the truth of such practices will be continued to be hidden from the 99%. I watched ALL 27 Elliot Rodger videos before writing this piece. Most of them were him driving around the Isla Vista-Santa Barbara area--listening to 80's music in his car. Unless you've seen them, you cannot validate my assertion that that was the actual bulk of his 'vlogging'. In my opinion--the choice was made to hide another one of America's sickest children from the public's view, because he was bred and raised to be a monster--and there are literally thousands, if not millions of Elliot Rodger in America, reared under the same pretext as he was.

If we cannot address the issue of racist hatred in America and how it develops, by looking it in the face and being repulsed by it, then we cannot pretend like we live in a post-racial society. The year is 2014. The child was raised in a home that condoned and obviously practiced racism and misogyny no matter how you slice it. This cannot be just chalked up to a young man that 'mental issues', for the foundation for those mental issues can be determined by reading his manifesto in full. Elliot left it so America could be aware how not to raise your child, unless you want them to go on a killing spree based on the acceptance of white supremacy in the family household.