Weeding out the Psycho-Geeks
What is wrong with our society, when sociopathic, loser nutcases like Kimveer Gill can live amongst us and escape our social distant early warning system? Well, for one thing, I believe that social DEW has been rendered impotent by the proliferation of online teen culture. The warnings are everywhere. The digital evidence is preserved like fresh blood-filled footprints in the posts that these selfish, narcissistic freaks leave on web sites, yet no one confronts them. Why?
Gill wrote this on his Vampirefreaks.com profile "Life is a video game, you've got to die sometime'' and talked about dying in a hail of bullets. Umm, if you saw your friend, kid or even a stranger writing stuff like that online, in front of the world, don't you think you might investigate a little further? Maybe not. Gill was just another in an increasingly long line of young, disenfrachised, lazy-ass e-geek stereotypes.
You see his kind of pseudo-bravado everywhere on myspace for instance. Gill apparently used the name Angel of Death online. A quick search on myspace brings up 667 other Angels of Death hovering around the electronic netherworld. Goths and the like post pictures of themselves bloodied, mangled or posing as pale corpses regularly. It's fun for them. It's commonplace and pervasive. So, how do we weed out the psycho-geeks from the innocent horror-loving EMO kids, goths and metal fans- let alone from the population of jocks and seemingly average kids?
Vague laws and ISPs and internet users who assume absolutely no social responsibility are no help. They need to step up and set and enforce standards. I'm not advocating censorship- god forbid- but holding kids accountable for saying things online like "I'm going to kill everyone". Why can you say that on a vampire lovers' site if you are dressed up like a freakin' Transylvanian Duke, but not in a line up at an airport terminal? It's logically absurd.
If it were up to me, we would thin the herd- in a legal manner, of course. I have no sympathy for such dispossessed lonely people or their families. We, as a society, breed them - it's our fault. We need to cut them at the hamstrings before they leap. The tender, caring approach does not work with these people. If you are that broken you have no place in our society and should be locked up forever, no matter what age. Monsters like Gill aren't created over night. They grow and flourish and all the while the warning signs are ignored by the cowardly.
Gill wrote this on his Vampirefreaks.com profile "Life is a video game, you've got to die sometime'' and talked about dying in a hail of bullets. Umm, if you saw your friend, kid or even a stranger writing stuff like that online, in front of the world, don't you think you might investigate a little further? Maybe not. Gill was just another in an increasingly long line of young, disenfrachised, lazy-ass e-geek stereotypes.
You see his kind of pseudo-bravado everywhere on myspace for instance. Gill apparently used the name Angel of Death online. A quick search on myspace brings up 667 other Angels of Death hovering around the electronic netherworld. Goths and the like post pictures of themselves bloodied, mangled or posing as pale corpses regularly. It's fun for them. It's commonplace and pervasive. So, how do we weed out the psycho-geeks from the innocent horror-loving EMO kids, goths and metal fans- let alone from the population of jocks and seemingly average kids?
Vague laws and ISPs and internet users who assume absolutely no social responsibility are no help. They need to step up and set and enforce standards. I'm not advocating censorship- god forbid- but holding kids accountable for saying things online like "I'm going to kill everyone". Why can you say that on a vampire lovers' site if you are dressed up like a freakin' Transylvanian Duke, but not in a line up at an airport terminal? It's logically absurd.
If it were up to me, we would thin the herd- in a legal manner, of course. I have no sympathy for such dispossessed lonely people or their families. We, as a society, breed them - it's our fault. We need to cut them at the hamstrings before they leap. The tender, caring approach does not work with these people. If you are that broken you have no place in our society and should be locked up forever, no matter what age. Monsters like Gill aren't created over night. They grow and flourish and all the while the warning signs are ignored by the cowardly.
Labels: Crime, Culture, Evil, Philosophy
posted by K-Dough at 2:14 AM
13 Comments:
There are no absolutes any more. There's no sense of-- dare I say it-- SIN-- that there are some acts are wrong in themselves.
We don't dare speak out in this culture about there being right and wrong. It might upset somebody.
Suzanne- SIN is blase these days. Fetish is blase. All these fringe people (not really fringe anymore becaus the internet has united them) trying to push the limits, are now just as lame as the mainstream.
You are correct Suzanne, this has blurred the lines between fantasy/reality and sin/morality. However, I am not concerned with those demarkations. I am concerned with social activism and personal reponsibliity and accountability.
If you hear your neighbour beating his wife, do you call the cops? I do. And then I go out there, risk my own life and physically defend her in the meantime.
That's what I'm talkin' about baby (sorry- fetus in your case).
Maybe an earlier intervention could have allowed Gill to become a productive contributor to society like this guy:
Michael Wynne
Humanity makes me barf today.
(previous comment deleted due to broken link)
"young, disenfrachised, lazy-ass e-geek stereotypes"
I totally agree with you, K.
T.
I have a question for the gallery: Is it wrong (I know it's exceedingly redundant) to want to beat the shit out of a dead guy?
This fucker really deserves a brutal post-humous pumelling.
The first guy I remember really wanting to post-humously punch, was that father who dropped his daughter off a bridge onto the 401, as he talked to his ex-wife on his cell a few years back.
Even though he then jumped, killing himself (coward)I had this unreal urge to inflict more pain upon him.
Miraculously, that beautiful young girl lived. I guess it was an rare example of natural justice.
Do you ever wonder who is raising these kids? Why do they have no value for human life, no respect? I truly believe that parents have to take some responsibility for their kid's violent behaviour. I understand that these kids are anti-social and depressed but why are the parents not stepping in at some point?
This kid was 25.
Cam: 25 yes, but obviously not only immature, but of an age where he had grown up being exposed to the unaccountable, anonymous online D&D/fantasy/goth culture.
And at 38, 25 seems pretty green and kiddish in hind sight. Not to mention our society does not force people to grow up until they are in their mid to late 30s these days. Don't get me started on that-but it has something to do with affluence, laziness, consumerism and a diet of high-fibre ignorance.
I'd bet the farm that he's he doing this shit online for many years..likely starting when he was a teen. It doesn't start at 25 with a normal person. I guess I'm getting old, because 25 is a kid to me.
I'm having trouble contributing to this, because I'm so upset about that young, beautiful dead girl and the others that are in critical condition. I'm REALLY disturbed. One question after all this media focus though: What's with the constant reference to Goth culture whenever talking about this asshole?
He wore a black coat, had a bad haircut and owned guns. Goth? Huh?Everyone out there shut-up already with the fucking Goth business.
And yes, K-dough, I was really horrified by that guy who dropped the little girl off the bridge while having it out with his ex on his cell. I'm still haunted every time I drive on the 401.
Everything gets harder to stomach when you're a daddy, eh?
Anonywuss- blow me, psycho geek.
my spider sense tells me, K, that if you met with anonymous mano-e-mano he would drop his trousers in a second and ask to play Ben Dover to your Phil McCraken.
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