Anders Brievik's terrorist attack

THE MIND OF ANDERS BREIVIK…….

MORE PROOF.

This goes hand in hand with the Welner video

The man was clearly on his own mission, not the Counerjihad’s. He was never a part of it. KGS

NORWAY MASSACRE: THE MIND OF ANDERS BREIVIK

HOW does a man in one of the most peaceful societies in the world come to the conclusion that shooting a large number of people unknown to him is to serve the cause of his country?

Several ingredients must be in the witch’s brew of Anders Breivik’s mind.

First is resentment; second, self-importance; third, the desire for fame or notoriety; fourth, the search for a transcendent meaning to life, and fifth, a difficulty in forming ordinary human relationships, whether of love or friendship.

A final precondition is an above-average level of intelligence, for this is necessary in order to rationalise the commission of a deed that would otherwise be repugnant.

Resentment arises when you are not treated or rewarded as you think you deserve to be. Your merits, whether by virtue of birth or accomplishment, go unrecognised. You are therefore a victim of injustice. By definition you can do no wrong when you try to right them.

Self-importance prevents you from putting the wrongs you think you have suffered into any kind of perspective.

In a world in which celebrity seems so important, obscurity is felt by many as a wound to their ego.
You do not see that, by the standards of most people, you have suffered little. You cannot see the difference between mere inconvenience or distaste and severe oppression.

In a world in which celebrity seems so important, obscurity is felt by many as a wound to their ego. Why should others be famous and not me?

If you cannot achieve celebrity by force of talent, then you can do so by means of murder – witness the Crossbow Cannibal.

A wider cause gives meaning and purpose to your life, and persuades you that your resentment, your anger, is not petty or personal, but something much grander. Breivik thought that by acting on his personal resentments he was a saviour of Europe; he might just as well have been an animal rights activist as a nationalist. His monomania relieved his inner emptiness.

A difficulty in forming normal human relationships is another cause for resentment of a man like Breivik, and of yet another wound to his ego. It has to be compensated for somehow, and producing an event of historic importance is one way to do it.

A man must be intelligent to act like Breivik – for he needs not only to plan and execute his “historic” deed, but to be able to weave a coherent, if paranoid and ultimately stupid, justification for it.

The pity for others of a mass killer like Breivik is nil; for himself, infinite.

Dr Theodore Dalrymple is the author of Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult Of Sentimentality.

5 Responses

    1. He set up the farming activities only in order to be able to buy fertilizer and other components to make bombs. He says so himself in his log.

  1. All the experts skilled (sic) in plumbing the depths of the human psyche are coming out of the woodwork.

    All the Dalrymple assertions are just that – assertions that might or might not be true.

    No sane person would consider Breivik to be part of the Counter Jihad.

    We live in a world where everyone wants to be a psychologist.

    Might be time to give it a rest.

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