There is a certain risk that we become increasingly desensitized by the continual bullshittery. But as things like this occur over and over again, it’s not a bad idea to remind ourselves that events like this are still newsworthy.

Just over this weekend, some leftist piece of work bum rushed the White House Correspondence’s Dinner, firing off, and only managing to hit one officer, who is expected to make a quick and full recovery by reason of the bulletproof vest that he was wearing.

Pictured above is Cole Allen, a California school teacher who viewed it as his duty to carry out the brazen attack. And thanks to New York Post, we have his manifesto to tell us just how senseless he really was.

You can follow the link to read the full manifesto. I just wanted to comment on a few things about it.

I could be more surprised than I am that something so dimwitted could be written by a California school teacher. But by the time I got through it, I had the idea that perhaps he got his education through continual hand-ups just for looking different and playing the victim at strategic points, and that doing so didn’t do society any favors.

For one thing, he opens with the confession that what he was about to do was going to upset and disappoint a lot of people who know him personally. That should have been taken by Cole himself to indicate that what he intended to do was a bad idea, and that he shouldn’t have gone through with it. Many such things would have indicated as much, but considering that manifestos from infamous criminals usually indicate that they tend to view themselves as heroes, Cole’s manifesto stands out for its confession of the foolishness of his planned crime, but rather than elect to not disappoint and upset everyone around him, Cole attempted murder.

Cole Allen’s next failure of intellect is his presumption of collective guilt, which is against the principles of justice in Christianity and the United States. Which goes to show that he did not allow the surrounding culture to impart its virtue upon him.

The fact is, no one bears the guilt for anyone else’s crime. Not only does Christianity recognize this, and informs how the United States handles justice, collective guilt is a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a fact that one would expect one to comprehend if they were employed in academia.

But it gets worse. Because the very charge that he levies is bullshit:

“And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”

Like anyone else who believes such things about Trump, Cole Allen is gullible and intellectually defective. But not everyone who peddles such untreated sewage actually believes it. As I often say, much of the internet is trying to get other people to do things.

When someone wants something done, but doesn’t want to get their own hands dirty, they try to get other people wound up, so that they do it, instead.

It’s easy to see where Cole Allen was in that relationship.

Cole continued on by outlining his priority of targets, at the top of which were administration officials, followed by anyone who would act to protect them. At this point, it should already be clear that Cole was motivated by political ideology. But I still expect the usual suspects to disingenuously pretend that they have no idea what could have possibly motivated the latest in a long string of violent leftists.

After this, Cole listed some anticipated objections to his planned crime, followed to his own rebuttals to these objections. These largely come down to building up strawmen, so he could then tear them down. A couple of the points he attempted to make indicated a certain disrespect towards Christianity, which isn’t a surprise, as indicated by his application of his belief in collective guilt.

A more intelligent person would have immediately understood the fallacies that Cole employed, and understood that such misguided reasoning was certainly not worth attempting murder over. That Cole Allen became a school teacher would seem an anomaly. But that there’s something wrong with California’s public education system doesn’t defy the imagination.

Based on everything I’ve read in the manifesto so far, it wouldn’t surprise me if Cole Allen had the early stages of kuru or some other neurodegenerative disease. His manifesto, and his attempted crime, don’t seem consistent with what one would expect from a school teacher.

Cole published his manifesto shortly before the attempted assassination. Just before doing so, Cole added a post script, in which he boasted about how far he had gotten with his plan, which he attributed to failures on the parts of security. Ultimately, the greatest failures were with him. But it can still be amusing to see how a known failure had taken a misguided comfort in his own illusory superiority.

More details about the failure that is Cole Allen are coming to light. As this happens, I would like to offer speculation as to what might have contributed to Cole Allen’s decision to attempt to assassinate administration officials.

I suspect that he was facing personal struggles. And some of them are likely to have been as a consequence of taking on challenges that he was either unprepared or unsuited for.

Being a minority in California, Cole Allen was in an excellent environment for appealing with his minority status to acquire opportunities. What’s more, whenever he was at risk of failure, he could easily leverage victimhood status to acquire what he wants through pity. With numerous Californian educators not wanting to take the risk of being branded a racist, even if falsely, it’s easy to imagine that Cole could navigate the Californian education system with the social tools at his disposal.

However, if a school system graduates a student who’s not really prepared for employment, they’re not really doing that student a favor. However long one may kick the can down the road, there will come a time when a person must contribute real value, or else just give up.

Even if Cole had value to contribute, it remains that life is often not easy, even for those with substantial intelligence. The fact is, we all have struggles. That’s a fact of life.

For those with an external locus of control, as Cole Allen apparently did, it’s easy to blame other people for their problems. Student loan debt? It’s probably because the system took advantage of you in some way. Rent too high? It’s probably because the landlord is being greedy. In bad health? It’s the food industry’s fault for making unhealthy food so accessible. Those with an external locus of control tend to struggle more with their problems because they tend to ignore where they have some amount of control.

And they tend to view themselves as victims. And following this reasoning to extremes, they may lash out at the people that they view as victimizing them, even if they seek some other justification. For example, trying to become a hero for other people.

Cole Allen was probably facing a failure that he had no apparent options for avoiding. His teaching award was evidently a sham. He probably couldn’t measure up to other teachers in a true meritocratic environment. He certainly wasn’t a success as a game designer.

But rather than fail in the way that was foreseeable, he decided to fail in his own way: by going down in flames. But while he certainly did, it didn’t happen the way he might have wanted.