I mean, imagine, like truly imagine what it takes to bludgeon someone to death. The lust for control, the feeling of arousal, the decision to rape the severed head of your victim, to humiliate her corpse. How could you possibly get that from an ordinary police report? You know why it took me nearly a decade to publish my book? Because narcissists don’t go to the doctor. Psychopaths are convinced that there is nothing wrong with them. So these men are virtually impossible to study. Yet you have found a way to study them in near perfect laboratory conditions. That’s what make this so exciting and potentially so far-reaching.

Imagine, like truly imagine what it takes to bludgeon someone to death. The lust for control, the feeling of arousal, the decision to rape the severed head of your victim, to humiliate her corpse. How could you possibly get that from an ordinary police report? You know why it took me nearly a decade to publish my book? Because narcissists don’t go to the doctor. Psychopaths are convinced that there is nothing wrong with them. So these men are virtually impossible to study. Yet you have found a way to study them in near perfect laboratory conditions.

- And I realized I’ve never been on a date in my entire life, ever. And I got in the door and I said to Mom, “I’ve never been on a date with a girl, Mom.”

- And what did she say?

- “Thank God.”

show: Mindhunter (2017)

                    “How do we get ahead of crazy if we don’t know how crazy thinks?”

How do we get ahead of crazy if we don’t know how crazy thinks?

get to know me meme: favorite tv shows [1/?] mindhunter (2017)

Well, I’ll be honest, I don’t get many visitors. When I do, you think they wanna talk about this shit? Fuck no, it’s like if you worked at a slaughterhouse with livestock, real conversation stopper. Did you? No, I’m just saying people who hunt other people for a vocation, all we wanna talk about is what it’s like. The shit that went down. The entire fucked-upness of it.