Cruel Attention Whoring: How Society Makes Criminal Heros

This is something that really shocks me from the bottom of my heart: if you really want stardom, you have to be a lucky artist, which I do feel every artist should be. Everybody is worth being awarded for his/her work, also people who lead a daily life.

Some are really underrated and I do love to state out that we would be nowhere without cleaning ladies, pizza couriers, waitresses and others who are in my opinion underpaid and the ones who really serve society in a way the big bosses in their offices with their fat wages can’t.

Also do I not condemn pop and rock stars that make millions on their music, since I do feel they work hard and give up a lot of privacy for what they do.

But I do not understand how it can be that a there are some great, talented people out there that get less fan mail than creeps like Charles Manson.

Yes, there are prison groupies or (wo)men who write fan-mail to heavy criminals. In my country Durtroux, a convicted pedophile who brutally raped kids he locked up in his cellar and even had them starved to death, is more popular than some nice, creative people.

A part of my might sympathise with the boys from Columbine. I do understand how they were treated by their class. Still I do feel this drama might have been avoided, if people were more aware of the problems that bullying can cost.

Yes, I’ve seen Micheal Moore’s “Bowling for Columbine” and have to say that the only person in the entire campaign film that made sense in my opinion was Marylin Manson. This shock rocker was right: maybe somebody should have listened to those kids, instead of starting a crusade against guns.

Does a person gets born as a psychopath? Personally I do feel some are more likely to snap than others, but I feel that we can all become brutal killers. It had nothing to do with intellect, since there are high IQ killers as well and they can be most grim. Think of the Hannibal Lector character.

Let’s not forget: we all have a breaking point. Some boil easier, some might take more.

Now there are individuals like me, that get fascinated by psychopaths, but from an understanding way. Yes, I like to know how people can become monsters and ferociously slay each other off. For a clear understanding: I do not seek contact with those kind of people.

I discovered that many brutal killers are broken souls and I wonder who drove them this far. Found out: mainly people like you and me, who do not feel to understand them.

Well, being where I was, I do understand how one can commit terrible crimes, but the fact that I did not do what the boys from Columbine did or did not become a monster, although I was placed in the same situation, makes me wonder.

That is why I still believe that there is a thin line between a normal, same person and a psychopath, who really has no emotions at all.