I think the most important thing we can take from this manifesto is that we aren't teaching our kids how to write very well.
If I caught my son writing a manifesto like this before he killed a bunch of people, I'd slap him with a ruler and make him write it again and again until it was actually a good piece of writing and not something that'll be totally embarrassing. "Look here boy, a compelling piece of writing such as a manifesto needs to have ethos, pathos, and logos or it's just the rambling of a crazy person!"
After 50 rewrites he'd be like "You know what? It's fine. I don't need to shoot up the school." what? Of course you need to finish this and go your school shooting! "No, it's ok, I realized after trying to make this manifesto have ethos, pathos, and logos 50 times that the reasons I'm doing this are really stupid." oh, ok.
If I caught my son writing a manifesto like this before he killed a bunch of people, I'd slap him with a ruler and make him write it again and again until it was actually a good piece of writing and not something that'll be totally embarrassing. "Look here boy, a compelling piece of writing such as a manifesto needs to have ethos, pathos, and logos or it's just the rambling of a crazy person!"
After 50 rewrites he'd be like "You know what? It's fine. I don't need to shoot up the school." what? Of course you need to finish this and go your school shooting! "No, it's ok, I realized after trying to make this manifesto have ethos, pathos, and logos 50 times that the reasons I'm doing this are really stupid." oh, ok.
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