I started reading it last night as soon as it came it out on the web, and I’m a fairly fast reader (I’m a proofreader and English teacher).
To be fair, there really are whole sections you can gloss over, because he ripped it off from “Industrial Society and its Future” (aka, the Unabomber Manifesto). And a lot of it is rehashing of the posts of the blogger fjordman. The only really “interesting” stuff (so to speak) is toward the end, which I think is his own work, mostly detailing how to carry out a lone-wolf attack. The first two-thirds serve as ideological justification for terrorism; the remaining third is essentially a how-to guide. It’s not exactly gripping reading, but it is coherent and follows a logical thread throughout.
For me, the creepy part is when you get a smart psycho (which is what this guy is). That’s rare, as most us have observed that criminals are rather unintelligent (you can find posts on that subject all day long all over the web). So, I find it fascinating reading, though as I said, not exactly gripping.
If you want gripping, read “Hannibal” by Thomas Harris.
That brings up many more questions. Why would he implicate and give clues as to the 12 members within his secret group ? Almost as if they want to be caught.
Yes. And you apparently never sleep either. What time is it in Czechoslovakia.....?
I don’t understand why more posters have not read the manifesto.
In the final 150 pages the killer goes into extensive detail as he builds the bombs.
I agree, he is intelligent. He is not insane.
I'll tell you who he most reminds me of: Bill Ayers.
Bill Ayers and the Weathermen were very smart individuals who were willing to inflict mass violence as part of a long-term plan they believed would trigger political change.
Their plan involved bombings of government buildings and killing policemen and military personnel. An undercover agent present at their meetings stated they were willing to kill as many as 25 million Americans to effect their change. They realized it would take decades to realize their plan, and that they would have to make alliances with other radical groups along the way.
But Bill Ayers had an epiphany - he realized the most effective means of change was indoctrination of children over the long term. That is why he then devoted his entire career to influencing what the youth are taught in schools and gaining influence or control over school curriculum.
That is the epiphany that Anders Breivik should have had - that educating the young people of Europe, and de-programming the Marxist indoctrination of them is really the only viable way to effect the change.
The acts of terrorism by Breivik play right into the hands of those he is claiming to oppose.