Malevolence Incarnate

The French gendarmes fearful of a pathetic young man who uses the charm of an innocent appearance to disarm those he plans to commit to death?  Le Figaro actually quoted French police as having admitted that officers were "terrified" of Luka Rocco Magnotta with his various aliases and grievances against a world that passed him by for fervent admiration of his unique qualities as an outstanding figure of physical beauty and mesmerizing wit.

This figment of some lunatic imagination come to life lives within the persona of a man who fears and dreads society, battling it with every ounce of his own perverted imagination, hoping to gain notoriety by shocking the public down to the very essence of its collective being.  While he succeeded in doing just that by transgressing the very foundations of all that is seen to be normal in the human psyche, he also was eager to confront the world as a victim.

His emotional equilibrium was rocked by those bystanders and onlookers who failed to be impressed by his bravura in portraying himself as a creature outside the norms of acceptable human behaviour.  The admiration that was supposed to be showered on him by other sociopaths, opting to elevate him to the position of first among the decadent debasers of normative behaviour, did not eventuate.

This is a man who lived his boyhood in a solitary aloneness, never quite accepted by his peers because of his seemingly obvious physical and behavioral differences.  Acceptance simply eluded him.  Driving him to secretive pursuits and to obvious feelings of resentment that his time would come, he would show them all, and in the showing demonstrate without equivocation just how special he was.

Bizarre acts of cruelty pleased his sadistic mindset, and piquing the outrage of those who became witness to his depravity through cyberspace both pleased and offended him.  He was pleased because he was noticed, offended because the notice came with condemnation, not the admiration he sought.  While he was busy 'getting a life', others were busy trying to track him down and expose him, where they too should have been 'getting a life'.

The fear of the French police was based on the clear apprehension that they would be dealing with someone for whom no human act was sacred and none forbidden.  Where nothing restrained someone lacking a conscience from extracting from his victims the most gruesome suffering imaginable.  Clearly, the sinister message conveyed to the public through a film like The Silence of the Lambs and the books that spawned it, have had their effect.

A personality that is abrasive, complaining, resentful - reflecting someone who feels unloved, unappreciated, defensive - has evolved into someone who takes pride in his status as a social outcast, a revoltingly macabre psychopath who enjoys inflicting pain on others, and imagining the reaction of horrified society, garnering him the acclaim, even of a negative type, that he savours.

Electronic media, cellphone signals, closed-circuit camera images, Internet activity, social cyber networks, all aided and abetted this psychotic sadist's mission toward fame, propelling him into a figure of international speculation and horrified reaction.  He's given society their latest thrills, demonstrating that there are no limits to human depravity.

His metier as a human predator, was to find his satisfaction in causing pain to others, having complete physical control over them, to enable himself to mutilate his victims, cause untold suffering that seems to gratify him, and to end their ordeal by butchering them.  As a butcher, his warped emotions found joy in the act of necrophilia and treating his victim's remains as a butcher would. 

Like the child who pouts and feels his needs neglected, Luka Rocco Magnotta planned his revenge on a world that would not accept his strange presence, the child who mutters to himself that he'll kill himself and then they'll all be sorry....  Of course, the kink in this particular plan was that an entirely innocent and unsuspecting victim was sacrificed to this vile creature's ambition.

And whatever becomes of him as he faces justice in the near future, as he must, as is demanded by civilized societies, he will enjoy that spectacle too.  Unfolding the foetid details of his miserable plan to shock and dismay, thrill and without doubt, inspire others to emulate his bold actions.  And his incarceration as his eventual punishment?  That too is part of his plan.

For he is also absorbed fully within himself as a masochist, along with all his other pathologies.