forgottencash
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It seems that the lesson that continually comes from tragedies like these is that bullying is one of the most damaging things that can happen to a child. It is a common thread among so many psychopaths and sociopaths. Isolation and loss of self esteem results, and then the kids reach out to connect to anything approachable - often times other bullied and isolated kids and the people who choose to manipulate them for either power or money. The horrorcore scene seems to play so well into this. Sam strikes me as a kid who was isolated so early in life that he never developed even a modicum of coping or social skills. How telling that his sister was alarmed when he told her he loved her. Raising children with no warmth and no intimacy can create monsters. Kids don't just instinctively know that they are loved - they have to see it and feel it. Was Emma his last hope for anything remotely akin to an intimate relationship? Did the horrorcore group represent the only sense of acceptance that he had ever known? When he saw it slipping away, all he knew to do was to try to desperately control the situation. He had more than we can ever understand riding on this relationship. If she embarrassed him in front of the horrocore family, he felt vulnerable to losing them too. If everything has spun out of control, what is the one thing that won't resist control? A dead body. That, to me, explains him staying in the house, possibly mutilating or posing the bodies. It is this intense message of control that scares me about horrorcore. Control is had through fear, pain, suicide, murder. I don't think kids are attracted to it as an art form or for entertainment. I think kids attracted to it are damaged in some way and I can't imagine them being healed by it. Or - I could be wrong.
Crossposted with Lizzy - thinking alike.
Crossposted with Lizzy - thinking alike.