Extinctionof the SocialDarwinismCanard 251ica supposedto be the landof the free?Howcome,if I’m free,I can’t deprivea stupid
fuckingdumbshitfromhis possessionsif he leavesthemsittingin the frontseatof his
fuckingvan out in plainsightand in the middleof fuckingnowhereon a Fri-fucking-day
night.NATURALSELECTION.Fuckershouldbe shot.”^107 Anotherday he promisedto
“kill whoeverI deam[sic]unfitfor anythingat all.”^108
EventuallyHarrisfantasizedaboutthe extinctionof everymemberof the humanrace,
exceptfor thosefromstill-existinghunter-gathererclans.He wrotein his diary,“... just
thinkingif I wantall humansdeador maybejust the quote-unquote‘civilized,developed,
andknown-of’ placeson Earth,maybeleavelittletribesof nativesin the rainforestor
something.Hmm,I’ll thinkaboutthat.”^109 Harris’s nihilismmanifestedconsistently:“...
the Naziscameup witha ‘finalsolution’ to the Jewishproblem.Kill themall. Well,in case
youhaven’t figuredit out yet, I say ‘KILLMANKIND’[;] no one shouldsurvive.”^110 He
sentout an e-mailsaying,“I thinkI wouldwantus [humans]to go extinct.”^111 Andin
anothernotehe said,“I havea goalto destroyas muchas possible.... I wantto burnthe
world.. .”^112 He had plannedto planta bombon the campus,killingas largea numberof
its occupantsas possible.Bizarrely,priorto carryingout the attack,he recordeda videoof
himselfaddressingsomeof thosesameclassmates,saying,“Morris,Nate,if you guyslive
[throughthe attack]I wantyouto havewhateveryouwantfrommy room.”^113 On the
veryday of the massacre,Harrisworea shirtsayingNaturalselection.^114
EricHarrishadsomeothertraitsin commonwiththe Nazis,exceptthatcultural
commentatorsfailedto noticethatthe Nazisso muchas possessedthesetraits.As with
the majorityof youngrecruitsto the NaziPartyin the early1930s,Harrisexpressed
resentmenttowardthosewhoweremoreaffluentthanhe was.In his diaryhe railed
against“thoserich snottytoadiesat my school.fuckersthinktheyare higherthanme and
everyoneelse withall their$ just becausetheywereborninto it?”^115 CitingtheColumbine
Documentsof the JeffersonCountySheriff’s Office,childpsychologistPeterLangman
evaluatesthat Harris“resentedpeoplewhoin his eyeshad it easybecausetheywereborn
withwealth.Keepin mindthat Eric’s familywasfar frompoor,whywashe so bitterand
hostiletowardrichpeople?Sensitivityto statusis relatedto paranoiabecauseparanoid
peopletendto assumethat othershaveachievedtheirsuccessor statusunfairly.Paranoid
people,” suchas EricHarrisandHitler’s earliestpoliticalsupporters,“thinktheyhave
gottena rawdealin life andthatotherpeoplehavemanipulatedthe systemto achieve
success.To paranoidpeople,theyare onceagainvictims.”^116 JosephGoebbelsheldcapi-
talismin lowregard,andso did EricHarris.Theenvywascharacteristicof Harris’s
accomplice,DylanKlebold,as well.Kleboldwrotein his journal,“others’ achievements
are tormentations[sic].”^117
Alsoin commonwiththe Nazis,Harrisrejectedacknowledgmentof objectivityin
favorof anti-realistepistemology.In his diaryhe penned,“thereis no suchthingas an
actual‘real world.’” On accountof his rejectionof objectivity,Harrisconcludedthat there
is no objectivemoralityeither;he thoughtethicswascompletelyarbitraryand capricious.
“Just becauseyourmumsyand dadsytoldyou bloodand violenceis bad,you thinkit’s a
fuckinglaw of nature?Wrong.”^118 He concluded,“There’s no suchthingas TrueGoodor
Trueevil.”^119 Andhe admittedhis ownself-hatred.“Everyoneis alwaysmakingfun of
me becauseof howI look,howfuckingweakI am.... Thenagain,I havealwayshated
howI looked,I makefun of peoplewholooklike me, sometimesevenwithoutthinking,
sometimesjust becauseI wantto rip on myself.That’s wherea lot of my hategrowsfrom.
The fact that I havepracticallyno self-esteem.. .”^120 Eric Harris’s diaryrevealsthat,as he
has chosento rejectreason,youcannotapproachhimwithreasonto persuadehimto
standdown.Whensomeoneof Harris’s mentalityintendsto kill you,he can onlybe
answeredwithretaliatoryforce.