Comments by "Alphabet Inc." (@official_alphabet_inc) on "EXPLORE WITH US"
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This is very human tbh. Of course, the more narcissistic one is, the more perfect one sees themselves, and thus, the more blame one shifts outwards. In the end, though, we're all regular victims to confirmation bias.. and when all you got is time to ruminate on why you ended up in a sticky situation, it's hard not to find any external reasons for one's fk ups.
So, in his example: I presume it's extremely rare to view oneself throughout life as an "evil" person, or someone destined to become a murderer. That's why he's searching for external reasons, e.g. 1) "I was obsessed with Columbine", 2) "my new friend was obsessed with violent movies, and he introduced me to them" -> "both of which made me more violent than I really was". Besides, 3) "he put the idea out there by asking me if I was down to kill someone -> which created and actual opportunity instead of being just fantasy". In that way, he proves to himself that he's not evil. Rather, these external reasons are to blame. And since there is some slight semblance of logic behind these thoughts, every time he thinks about these things, he solidifies them down more and more.
If he instead talked with the correct therapist/psychologist, or perhaps an intelligent friend, he might realise that there's some serious childhood trauma that created the basis for him to kill someone in this matter. Perhaps he has had some inner conflict since 10 about being "abandoned" as a baby - maybe without being fully aware of it. Coupled with have little to no social network, which strengthens the feelings of abandonment and aloneness. Which, on top of that, gave him lots of free time to nerd out on perhaps not-so-healthy subjects like school shooters and shit.
To be honest... From seeing the vids he and Torey created, and from his interrogation, I was kinda surprised Brian said shit like "I won't put all the blame on Torey, but...". I'd expect him to cry and shout about this being completely everyone else's fault - Torey, his parent, and everyone at school. Perhaps even Cassie herself.
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Yeah, cause none of us normies ever minimise our own bad/stupid actions.
Seriously, think back to the last time you did exactly that. Perhaps you were in a discussion, and suddenly you're talking over everyone else, borderline shouting. And when confronted, you go "Well.. what you said was really provoking" or some dumb shit like that, instead of just saying "yeah, sorry". Or perhaps a different time you made a fool of yourself, and latched on to some lame excuse instead of just admitting immediately that you fked up.
Now.. Imagine you do the ultimate oopsie and fkin murder another human or four. And now your stuck in a prison cell, under-stimulated, struggling not to think about all of this again and again and again and again... Is it really that weird for him to cling on to some lame excuses? Sadly, this is perfectly normal.
He's obviously not getting proper help for him to discover where it all went wrong, why he's so messed up, and recognizing how he can move down a better path in life.
PS: Before you start bitching, I'm obviously not saying he's perfectly normal, or defending him in general. I'm just saying that this behaviour you're talking about is perfectly normal. Neither am I saying that suggesting a reason or two for one's bad actions should fully exonerate them from any consequences.
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As per usual, I have a lot of small pieces of critique towards the script here and there, but in this one, you provided a real banger of insight: Brian is (at least partly) blaming Torey for what happened, but he forgets to consider the alternative. If he acted alone, or if it was more up to him, he'd probably do something more akin to Columbine.. which would be so much more worse (in a strictly utilitarian perspective ofc). Thus, it's entirely possible that Torey's influence actually saved several people's lives, and saved Brian for spending more time in prison, and having more victims on his conscience.
Btw to everyone who's critiquing what Brian says. While your critiques might all be perfectly valid, you have to also consider his current circumstances: He's in a situation where he's on a daily basis forced to think about his actions and his life due to lack of stimuli. He ruminates on the same kind of questions we have, like "why did I/he do this?", "where did it all go wrong?". etc He also probably doesn't have a lot of proper avenues for discussing these thoughts with other people on a regular basis. Thus, because of how our brains are made up, because of confirmation bias, it's only natural for Brian's thought patterns and opinions to turn out like this. Hearing him in this interview is the first time he appeared like a regular human to me.
Of course, Brian isn't (or at the very least "wasn't") mentally "all there". Some screws are a bit (or ehm.. a lot) looser than the average human being, cause if not, he wouldn't be able to do what he did, in the manner he did. That said, I promise you, whoever it is that's currently reading this: you would most likely have thought and said the same shit as Brian did in this interview if you somehow ended up in a similar situation to him.
Whatever.. RIP Cassie <3
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@KameradVonTurnip Don't fool yourself into thinking you/we know for sure. Trauma is the source of most, if not all, mental illness. There's also some science pointing to heritance (but I'm sceptical).
Negative drug-induced experiences can be traumatic enough to trigger some underlying mental illnesses, yes, but there's no good science supporting that drug use in itself can "create" mental illnesses. If I were to think out loud, I believe it is because 1) once the drugs wear of, the vast majority of users realise that the experience did not actually happen to them, in a physical sense. And 2) they can easily avoid this experience by never doing the/a drug again. This is much different compared to being raped or stabbed.
There's no doubt that drug use can change one's personality though, so we do agree slightly there. But what significant experience does not hold the potential to do exactly that? And what's wrong with an experience changing someone's personality? However, I don't agree that there's any empirical evidence supporting your claim that it changes one's personality for the worse. There's nothing that supports this claim, besides your limited impressions of drug abusers.
I'm sure you don't claim the same things about sugar, chocolate, cigars, coffee, parachuting, sex, hugging and opening a Christmas present - despite the fact that all of these things works the same way on your brain that drugs do.
Anything can be abused. And anything can be safely used. You can inject cyanide or venom from a black mamba directly into your bloodstream without dying if the dose is low enough.
It's all about frequency, quantity and duration.
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@jonslg240 For some reason, I re-read what you wrote, and I missed the last part (3 brothers: 18, 16 and possibly 14 years old). I didn't know there were three brothers in total, and I forgot the one at home was 16 years old.
That said, I believe he must've misspoke, because it seems pretty clear to me he's referring to the one who's upstairs (i.e. he meant to say "be here about a 16-year old"). Mainly because of the "what did you do to my baby"-exclamation. I find it highly unlikely that any 16 year old who has a normal relationship with his 4 year old half-sister would refer to her as his "baby". While it is entirely possible that this is just one of many delusions Keith had about what was actually going on within their family, I find it somewhat unlikely, as there supposedly are no other claims supporting him regularly suffering from this kind of delusional thinking.
That's why I assume the "my baby"-part was a fabricated lie, meant to support his arguments and allegation about his 16 year old brother being the abuser. Which I, all in all, believe was a deliberate effort to throw him under the bus, because, in actuality, it was Keith himself who was the abuser. Perhaps something happened in the cellar that day that made him kill Sabrina in a panicked effort of self-preservation. Perhaps he had been regularly abusing her for some time, but she had now reached a point where she realised this was wrong, and thus said or did something that made Keith realise she was going to out him for it. I
t's the only theory which makes any sense to me, considering all the facts and claims of this case, held up with how Keith behaves while putting forth his claims during the interrogation .
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@123451248ify Everyone, disregarding age, gender, religion, shoe size, hair colour etc., wants an attorney in this situation, IF they fully understand the realities of the situation they're currently in. The reason people waive this right is because of bravado (a guilty person think they can fool the police/an innocent person think they can help the police understand the realities of the situation), lack of knowledge how the police works, blind trust in authority figures/the police, and/or the impression that requesting a lawyer makes them look more suspicious.
In other words, no one in their right mind wants to waive their right to have an attorney present. And most people who face these types of situations are not in their right mind (temporarily or permanently) for a multitude of reasons.
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