Rate me late, but I really love how the more we get out of Ron, the more he shows that he's still the exact same monster he's always been. In the Canuckleheads interview, at about 53 minutes in, he starts talking about when he was engaged in all the Twitter back-and-forth at the beginning of this. He looks back at his behavior and says, "I was allowing other people to control me."
Honestly, as a lover of literature, this case has absolutely destroyed my ability to critique fiction. Now, if someone presents me with a book where an abusive bastard smugly blames his victim and says, "You made me do it," I won't be able to look at that character and think, What a ridiculous caricature! Abusers don't actually think that. They have better excuses. Now I'm going to have to look at every shallow, one dimensional stereotype in fiction and admit to myself, there really are people like that out there.
At first, I thought the only thing that Ron had gotten out of therapy was the ability to masquerade as a changed man, but now I see that his therapist wasn't good enough to give him even that bit of help. The very first thing every person needs to learn in therapy is that they control themselves. If Ron can look back at the past and assume that all the people to whom he responded with his tard rage were controlling him - he is totally offloading his personal accountability. No, Ron, the people weren't controlling you. Some of them might have gotten the response they wanted out of your internet sperging, but you were the one who decided to lash out in anger. That was always on you. The other people didn't do that to you - you did it to them. Ron doesn't have the emotional intelligence to even know that he ought to be pretending to take ownership of his actions.
It's the same with him claiming that his bad behavior in his relationships was his failure to set boundaries. Gosh, if I had just told them how not to make me mad, then they wouldn't have been in control of my emotions and they wouldn't have made me lash out at them! It's not boundaries, Ron, it's the fact that you like being angry.
And you went and admitted that you like doing bad things. You aren't ever out of control, Ron. You just like hurting people. You're a monster.
Edit: Someone else has already asked this, but I too want to know which of Ron's many self-help books tell him that going out and trying to slam on people you don't like is a sign of outstanding character and self control. I'm pretty sure most self-help books suggest that you should always be a good person. Being a good person when you feel like it is easy. Everyone is a good person when they feel like it. Your real character shows when you feel like being a bad person. And we can all see how Ron acts when that happens.
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