Hey Everyone,
So, in the wake of yesterday’s hearing in the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, in which a chillingly cool, calm Bryan Kohberger said “Guilty” several times, admitting to the murder of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, here’s a sneak preview of what you’ll learn about his psychology in The Idaho Four. I’ll admit I never thought that this would become the textbook explainer for his crimes. I thought we’d get to a trial. But here we are….
I know that Kohberger was very familiar with Incel (Involuntary Celibate) Culture…a dark violent online world of sexually-repressed men, which is well-known to all young people these days (my own sons and their friends even joke about it). But Kohberger was an actual student of its “patron saint” Elliot Rodger whose psychology and 2014 misogynistic-fueled mass-murder suicide in a college town Kohberger learned all about in a course at De Sales University.
When I looked into Incel culture, which I knew nothing about, I’ve got to say I was repelled.
It also occurred to me that when I was in my late teens and twenties, even the most nerdy and socially-awkward among us eventually met and found someone. The idea that a young man or woman would sit alone at home on a phone or laptop and never meet or engage with anyone physically…I don’t think that was a thing.
Physical isolation seems to me to be a construct of the Internet age, and I’d agree with the social scientist Jonathan Haidt that the impact on young people is grim.
Am I wrong?
What do you think?
As a reminder, you can pre-order The Idaho Four Here.
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