Read his manifesto/autobiography 'My Twisted World - The Story of Elliot Rodger'
http://s3.documentcloud.org/document...-manifesto.pdf
If it was a novel written by some new young author it would be a controversial NY Times best seller. That it's not fiction and completed just hours before he carries out his crazed act of retribution against the world that condemned him to a life of suffering in his mind makes reading it a surreal experience.
There is almost no worse place that this unhinged boy, and I use the word 'boy', because this kid was extremely immature for 22 years of age, could place himself in than Santa Barbara/Isla Vista. It literally drove him mad, as his mental state and loneliness worsened 'life coaches' were hired to help him learn social skills. These life coaches were young dudes, only a few years older than him, essentially paid friends. The last of these coaches urged him to get out of Santa Barbara, agreeing with the kid that the town was filled with the obnoxious jocks and the pretty blonde girls who gave them sex and that's just how it is. The kid was now defiant, Santa Barbara he had resolved to be his last stand, either the popular kids show him respect, a pretty blonde must give him the sex and love, or he would annihilate them all. Even in his last days, knowing he's going to die during this massacre, he still holds out some hope, that a pretty blonde will acknowledge him and sleep with him and he will never have to carry out his day of retribution.
The 'manifesto' is a chronological autobiography, from birth to the day before he dies, it's 110,000 words which is a pretty standard length for a novel. Up until halfway through the book I had a lot of empathy for him, after that he steadily descends into an unstoppable madness. Near the end there's a night he described on Isla Vista's main party drag that rekindled some empathy for him. The night ends with him getting the shit kicked out of him by a huge throng of these 'obnoxious brutes' as he calls them, breaking his leg in the process.
So many things to consider as factors in how he got to be what he became. One thing that really jumped out at me is that at the age of 18 he describes getting together with a friend he hadn't seen in a long time as a 'playdate'. WTF?
I feel for his parents, as I read his life story according to him, I kept thinking what could have been done to help him, they tried many many things, and I came to the conclusion that literally nothing could help him. A lost cause.