Doug Giles

6-1-2014: Doug Giles as a dad of daughters wrote an open letter to whiny Elliot Rodgers out there.

I like and respect Giles and read him all the time, but he is right and wrong in the 8  points that he makes in his letter, so I want to respond to them, point by point.

Yes, there are more Elliot Rodgers out there, and I do not believe they are mentally ill, whiny, narcissistic and self-indulgent (all fair criticisms) so much as they are undeveloped individuals very isolated from the community, with horrible coping skills, and have been discriminated by groupists all their lives. If Giles thinks it is so much fun to be picked on by groupists, girls, boys, etc., he should try walking a mile in Rodgers shoes sometime.

Point 1. Giles advises no "poor me" talk. When an injustice is done repeatedly, and none confess to  being oppressors, let alone apologize for mistreatment of a loner, and promise to do it no more, some whining is excusable. Giles makes a great point in suggesting that a manly man that does not whine and feel sorry for himself, and that lack of self-pity  is attractive to at least some women.

Point 2.  Giles is a Christian. I am not. I am a conservative Unitarian-Universalist. I believe that God is and speaks to people in a million different languages. There is a divine face, name and faith that go with the language spoken. Christianity is spoken in the English language among others, and it a viable, wonderful faith.

Christians are too pro-group and not enough for individuals and individuators. As a Mavellonialist I am pro-individual and pro-individuator, not much for group-living and group-rights. Rodgers was a sick, evil, selfish, murderous individualist, but he was an individualist. With Mavellonialist training, there is a very good chance many young men like him could be saved.

Giles is brilliant here when he advises getting a vision (life quest, vision quest?). Giles advises serving a purpose greater than the self. Actually serving the self is the greatest purpose, but that is in no way incompatible with altruism or self-sacrifice. Answering God's higher calling is pretty similar to what I am advocating, but it is enlightened self-interest, not selflessness, Mr. Giles.

Point 3. Man up and avoid Katy Perry concerts--Amen.

Point 4. Get rid of your riches, and your altruism may lead to your landing a chick. Okay.

Point 5. Even if you are lonely, do not feel sorry for yourself--be a leader and read the classics. Mavellonialist training would teach a lonely young loner not feel sorry for himself or hate and kill. It would teach him to self-actualize, to sublimate his frustrations and self-loathing into higher purpose in service of  developing the self and serving the world, however he wants to assign duties to the self. Quit crying--go to work, and amount to something. Good point, Mr. Giles.

Point 6. Spend time with God and get your cultural identity from Him and not Hollyweird. Amen.

Point 7. Embrace rejection and pain. Yes and No. Yes, it must be dealt with, without revenge upon anyone. It must be dealt with by sublimating the rage into self-actualization. No, in that groups of all kinds feel happy, self-satisfied and morally and theologically justified in inflicting pain and suffering upon individual and individuator outsiders, loners, losers, etc. That must cease. This Mavellonialist fight for protected class protection for the human rights and dignity to be afforded to each indivdiualist is a fight that will be waged and won, over time. I hope to lead the fight.

Point 8. Don't wish you were someone else. Very wise. We must be who we are. We are all unique, and what we are is the gift that God has given us. We are to figure out what is our personal, higher calling, and then spend a life time, getting after it and achieving it. Killing girls in a sorority is not at all part of anything good or useful.

Mr. Giles, train your daughters to be friendly but not push-overs to anyone whether, joiner or loner. Teach them to reject creeps of any ilk. We need to train our children to not pick on people outside the immediate herd that they cling to: that is the next step in civilized advancement.

Ed Ramsey #612-360-5320