jayson

MB: If you ever read the introduction to Colin Wilson's A HISTORY OF MODERN MURDER, the psychopath is basically a 20th century thing and comes from alienation and rats -- you know, people behaving like rats in an experiment. But I think it comes out of a lack of grown-upness and morality that people have because they don't believe in Christianity. And there's this kind of, you know, "I deserve this, I deserve that," and when people like that are thwarted they're likely to do that kind of thing. It's just like a childishness in people, how they've been really kept from growing up. I think people were more grown-up in other centuries and more rounded-out humans, you know. The majority of adults shooting each other after a small road accident or kinda blowing up all over the spot, it's all just infantilized... the guy, for a long time had waged war although he was, kinda everyone knew he was, a pervert and after boys and stuff; he kept campaigning for himself in public saying, "People are spreading terrible slurs about me," and everything. Posting leaflets. People get a sense of injustice -- even though he knew he was a pervert inside. Can you imagine that kind of wanting it both ways basically. It's like the child that won't admit that it's taken the last cookie or something. It'll have a screaming psychotic fit rather than actually say, "Yes, I took it."