NPC Thoughts

January 6th, 2020 had to be one of the craziest days in America. I remember waking up to my mom watching the incident go down on TV and I was just shocked. I found it funny seeing how many morons there were in the Capitol that day. They were there because of the outcome of the election. Or so I thought. I later figured out from news articles being written that Trump had played a huge role in what went down in the Capitol on January 6th, 2020. The article best describes what went down that day as Donald Trump inciting the incident hoping his mob would "... would kill his own vice president, Mike Pence, and as many members of Congress as possible so that he could become a dictator." The part where the author, James Risen, compared Trump to Jim Jones was crazy! I was like "WTF!" because that's something I've never even heard of before. It's very accurate because they both wanted to get American politicians killed except Jim Jones sadly succeed in this.  Som

Cult Leaders are very much the same kind of people with the same agenda. They want something and they will use people to get what they want. They believe it s a power they were "given" by God. I knew about cults but I never knew what made a cult leader and I never knew why they did what they did. The article gives examples of why cult leaders are the way they are. The article says that some common traits that underpin their [cult leaders] aura are narcissism, charm and charisma, lack of guilt and remorse, spiritual abuse, twisting facts for personal gain, pathological liars, authoritarian leadership, undue advantage of their followers, lack of boundaries, use of media and sycophancy, dissenters as enemies, and they use people as assets and objects. The first trait, narcissism, is defined as  "selfishness, involving a sense of entitlement, a lack of empathy, and a need for admiration, as characterizing a personality type." They believe they are born to be better than

Serial killers are described as,'" .. .someone who has murdered at least three people, over a period of more than a month, with at least some 'cooling-off” time between each murder."' The article goes on to say that," ... serial killers have existed throughout history. In ancient and medieval times—long before the concept of a “serial killer” entered popular parlance—such murders were often thought to be the work of monsters, werewolves, or witches; when they were caught, many serial killers of the time were accused of (or even confessed to) committing the murders for "supernatural" purposes."  Serial Killers also tend to be anti-social. The article describes a serial killer's personality as people who act," ... abnormal psychological processes—notably severe antisocial tendencies—...". I feel like this kind of puts a target on peo ple who are usually quiet or more reserved. We see this when kids who are quieter and to themselves

Are Serial Killers born or are they made? I've always wondered which one is the answer. I feel like there is always a case that can be made for both sides. One of the things that we see in a lot of serial killers is that they have been abused, psychologically or physically. You can argue that this is a big factor as to why serial killers are the way they are but then again, there are some serial killers who grow up wanting to commit evil. When I say commit evil I mean people who grow up killing animals. The article shows how the argument that serial killers are born the way they are when it says,"  Ted Bundy, for instance, already exhibited abnormal behavior at a very young age – at the age of 3 he was already interested in knives and in his teenage years he would continually spy on other people’s windows". However, the article counters this when it talks about Ed Kemper. It says,"  His grandmother was also very abusive and at the age of 15 he ended up killing her an

Jim Jones' cult: The Peoples' Temple and their "utopia" Jonestown was shocking and sad. I can't say I blame the people who followed him because, during that period, being integrated with other backgrounds was looked down upon especially in the South. He went against what at the time were societal norms and brought African Americans, Asians, Whites, etc together as equals. Pushing for an integrated society was a very good idea but after that, it just went downhill.  I kind of feel like he preyed on vulnerable people. I think when people are in a position where they feel "lost" they turn to things they believe as a sort of comfort. For a lot of people, it may be religion, and seeing that he was a well-spoken person especially since during his time, the peace movement was a big thing, he used that to his advantage which made his church grow more and more.  As things went on, things got worse and worse. He became a lot more aggressive and even beat his follo

Crazy, not Insane helped bring a lot of insight as to why people are aggressive in general. The thing that caught my attention was how each serial killer in the documentary has had some sort of head trauma. Of course, there is more that goes into making a serial killer. A lot of them grew up in abusive households, they've been molested by people who were supposed to protect them, and overall grew up in a bad environment. These things don't entirely dictate a serial killer but these are recurring things in a lot of serial killers' childhoods. As stated earlier, the thing that caught my attention was head trauma has a lot to do with a person's behavior specifically when they're adults. I've seen this a lot from football players who suffer from CTE. People like Richard Sherman, Aaron Hernandez, Antonio Brown, the list goes on and on but they are people who weren't aggressive coming into the league. They were really nice people but as their careers progressed, t