Prof. Edward Dutton of The Jolly Heretic [collab #1]

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Professor Edward Dutton (alias the Jolly Heretic) interviewed me on some of my books and other matters. It was my first live-streamed interview, so I probably came off a bit amateurish and apprehensive. Either way, I did enjoy the experience and would like to speak to more people in the future.

On the Matter of School Shooters

In hindsight, one main question the professor was trying to get at was this:

Does an oppressive group culture (such as Christianity) drive individuals to mass murder?

I may have given confusing responses, since my book about the Columbine Shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris (that I wrote 8 years ago) was really about the worldview expressed in the boys’ personal writings, not necessarily about their motives.

However, I did study the shooters’ motives when writing the book. I concluded back then that both Klebold and Harris were victims of child abuse. There is evidence of this in their personal diaries. There is also a home video the two shooters taped called the “basement video” in which they accuse their parents of psychological damage done to them. (This video was later shown to journalists but never made public and is still locked up in a vault today.)

I.e., the two young men presumably experienced unique life events that other kids at Columbine High had not. This invalidates the group culture theory for mass shootings (at least in the Columbine case).

Harris, in his writings, often referred to his favorite movie Natural Born Killers, which is about abused children of sex-offending parents who later become mass murderers. Aside from this reference to sexual abuse, Eric Harris was a victim of surgical operations to his malformed chest that hurt his self-esteem. It rendered him unable to compete athletically, something that deeply disappointed his military father. Eric Harris carried around a massive inferiority complex of the sort where he writes that in Nazi Germany, he “should have been discarded”.

The Klebolds were Jews, not Christians. Klebold was raised by two aloof parents who emotionally neglected him from an early age. Dad Klebold was a distant academic and mom was a special-needs nurse who, because of her work, had learned to distance herself from people with problems, including those of her son. The parents told Dylan to “be independent” but forgot to tell him how to ask for help.

So, the answer is no: group culture at Columbine High, Christian or otherwise, did not in any way contribute to the mass-murdering behaviors of the two shooters.

Individualism—or getting a fake virtual girlfriend on OnlyFans—wouldn’t have cured the problem. Though Dylan was possibly gay or gay-ish (with a fetish for feet porn, as evidenced from his writings), Eric Harris went out on a date with a girl the very Saturday before the shootings. Harris’s frustration certainly didn’t stem from a lack of internet porn in his day.

I also reject the “but they were bullied” thesis. Harris and Klebold acted out of their personal misery, rather than their being excluded from the popular high-school sports clique. Individual emotional traumata run far deeper than group culture.