tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20646240.post6968670976585762287..comments2023-03-30T07:59:35.962+02:00Comments on Small Wrinkles in Spacetime: Every Dog Has His DayJohn Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11647833154827132967noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20646240.post-51797856013164756722012-05-01T08:44:10.237+02:002012-05-01T08:44:10.237+02:00Breivik is an aberration, which the world needs fr...Breivik is an aberration, which the world needs from time to time to recalibrate its moral compass. I myself don't care to distress myself by imagining him and his kind in some kind of dungeon like Hannibal Lecter - his own demons will howl and gibber quite loudly enough in the years to come to drive him into the abyss.John Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11647833154827132967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20646240.post-49130696627877050282012-04-24T19:13:11.856+02:002012-04-24T19:13:11.856+02:00As usual your logical mind puts order to what seem...As usual your logical mind puts order to what seems to be utter chaos. I am particularly offended by Brevik because he seems to have punched a gaping hole into one of my societal theories regarding violent crime.<br />Norway is by most accounts a splendid place to live. They have zero debt, a thriving economy, and a society that is the envy of most countries in the world.<br />I haven't read much about Brevik's upbringing. I am sure criminologists will publish more than a few dissertations after studying him like a specimen in a petri dish.<br />He seems to me on first glance to fit into that niche of small "big men" who lashed out at the world once they found a sufficient cause to do so.<br />We have seen his kind before in the US. More frequently than I'd like to admit. Timothy McVeigh comes to mind, God rest his soul, and Charles Manson. Then there was the "unabomber." We have had the "Son of Sam" and the "Zodiac Killer." Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and others come to mind as well. Of course they didn't plan to get caught and none of them made any real political appeals other than Manson who wanted a race war to bring on a new age in America. McVeigh and Bundy were put to death and Dahmer was put to death by a fellow inmate. Justice done I'd say.<br />I like the fact that Manson is still around and every few years we get a reminder of his horror. The press fusses about the possibility of his parole, he managed to escape the death penalty by a hiccup in the constitutionality of the death penalty in the California courts. Today he'd be toast. Somehow, however, the pictures we get of the man rotting in his cell are quite fulfilling. He is in hell. Despite all the pathetic supporters he still has, his day as a rock star are long gone. Each year fewer and fewer people know who he is and his crimes, although horrific, seem to blend into the horrors of the modern world like just another speedbump on the highway of pain and suffering.<br />Brevik is still coming to terms it seems with what he has done. It is a horrible crime. Whether he will be found competent at the end of the day is yet to be seen. <br />I seriously question his sanity given his "plan." Kill a bunch of children and other innocents to bring attention to his "cause." Why not do something elsewhere and to the proported "invaders." After all a Serb Nationalist started World War I with a properly chosen target and a bit of luck on the day of the assassination.<br />As for his premise that Islam is taking over Europe one might say its only natural because the "other religions" and secular humanism have resulted in a zero or declining birthrate in European countries and much of the developing world.<br />Just as racist Californians bemoan the takeover of "Spanish speakers" in their schools, cities, and prisons yet still support the industries that hire "undocumented workers" from south of the border, it seems that many like Brevik are just frustrated by the system that makes them feel like strangers in their own land.<br />At the end of the day he appears to be little more than a criminal who is insane, or not very bright. He seems to have cooked this thing up by himself, for himself, as his entry into his own fantasy world of chivalry. Watching him tear up as he heard his manifesto read in court made me sick. Hopefully he will live a long time in jail or psychiatric care so he can endure the pain of guilt and more importantly irrelevance as each year passes and his fifteen minutes of fame gets buried deeper and deeper into the past.Noah Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17145688286761537190noreply@blogger.com