Assorted premature thoughts on Breivik

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I'm not sure, but this appears to be the first use of Family Circle cartoon art in a mass killer's video manifesto. Eerie. For a guy who clearly hates both the modern and the postmodern, he sure hit the postmodern gong hard with his media technique.

Breivik managed to repeat the last 15 minutes of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It reminds me of

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[purejuice]

i don't think people who DO this stuff think they're real, or their victims are real. i think, like those of us when we're in extremity, to them "it's like watching a movie". only all the time. i think they're dissociated and i think that the dissociated are likely to adopt movie roles as their live ethos. hence, blam blam.

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Travis Bickle rides again. I think you're right.

[eyeteeth]

For the most part modern industrial life is a paradise compared to everything that came before it. What we're stuck with is the idea that it's hell and that shit was way better whatever number of years ago. That idea is hilarious in its misguidedness until someone commits mass murder over it.

[kafkateer]

quick question: at the very end of the video, what's the 2nd uniform that he's wearing after the masonic (?) one--did he make that up himself or is it an actual uniform from an actual country?

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I think it might be his own uniform from the Norwegian military, but I dunno.