Western culture stands at the precipice of self-destruction. The horrific murder of Charlie Kirk is a bloody, stark warning. Gad Saad, the evolutionary psychologist and unapologetic critic of moral decline, utilized the phrase "suicidal empathy" to describe the sickening ideology prioritizes the emotions of predators over the well-being of innocents. Empathy that is so extreme and so driven by ideology that it invites the knife to your throat. Madness!
Jordan Peterson, the clinical psychologist, has long railed against the chaos of unchecked victimhood culture. He echoes the exact same sentiment: society’s obsession with "compassion" without boundaries erodes the structures that protect us all.
Can’t you see? There is a fatal disease ravaging the West.
And today, at Utah Valley University, that disease claimed the life of Charlie Kirk, a conservative firebrand whose only "crime" was speaking truth to power. A good man, intelligent, articulate, selfless, a devoted family man, and a man of faith. What are we (as a society) going to tell his kids?
Kirk, the 31-year-old co-founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, was gunned down in the neck during a lively outdoor event on campus. It is all in a video. A scene of horror. Kirk, mid-speech to an enthusiastic crowd of young conservatives, suddenly collapsing as gunfire erupted. He was rushed to a hospital but succumbed to his injuries hours later.
They killed him, this stupid ideology killed him. And anyone who supports this ideology is responsible for this crime.
The shooter remains at large, with a person of interest detained and released, as the FBI and ATF investigate. This tragedy underscores the failures of policies that allow unstable individuals, more than often with untreated mental health issues, to pose ongoing threats to public safety, as seen in countless similar cases across the U.S.
That’s SUICIDE.
I cannot overstate the significance of Kirk's murder. He was a beacon for young Americans disillusioned by woke indoctrination, mobilizing millions against the very policies that enabled his killer. The kinds of Maxine Waters, Jasmine Crockett and Dan Goldman openly mobilize progressives to be violent, to kill, to destroy properties.
What the hell? Can’t we see that this event exposes a catastrophic failure?
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 43% of state prison inmates and 44% of those in local jails suffer from mental disorders. YET, deinstitutionalization trends, accelerated by progressive reforms, have slashed psychiatric bed capacity by over 90% since the 1950s. Crime rates, although down in 2025, mask a surge in violent offenses linked to untreated mental illness. NAMI reports indicate that while people with mental illness are far more likely to be victims of violence (up to 10 times higher risk), untreated serious mental illness can modestly elevate the risk of perpetration 2-4 times higher in severe cases.
Wouldn’t you consider these facts a reason for an urgent need for better intervention?
Gad Saad, in his book Suicidal Empathy, dissects this as parasitic idea-pathogens.
Stupid, idiotic ideas like "defund the police" and "cashless bail", that spread through elite institutions, compelling society to empathize with the unstable at the expense of the stable.
Peterson, in works like 12 Rules for Life, warns that such chaos invites monsters:
If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, you weaken yourself and invite exploitation.
Kirk's death is the ultimate exploitation.
And this is not an isolated tragedy. Just last month in Charlotte, North Carolina, 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was brutally stabbed to death on a light rail train by Decarlos Brown Jr., a 34-year-old homeless man with a long history of violent crime and mental health issues. Brown, who had been released early from a mental health evaluation after prior felony charges were downgraded under progressive prosecutorial guidelines, slashed Zarutska's throat in an unprovoked attack witnessed by horrified commuters. Court documents show, once again, missed opportunities. A delayed mental health assessment in 2024 could have kept him off the streets, but "compassionate release" policies prevailed.
Across the Atlantic, Europe is bleeding from the same wound. In April 2025, a 39-year-old woman with a history of mental health issues was arrested for the murder of 93-year-old Judy Zussman, a great-grandmother, in Gatley near Manchester. The suspect was detained under the Mental Health Act shortly after the attack. Echoing the 2023 Nottingham stabbings, where triple killer Valdo Calocane, detained four times under mental health laws, was allowed to roam free and slaughter three innocents.
Can’t you see the pattern?? Eurofound's recent reports highlight growing trends in poor mental health across Europe, raising concerns over access to services and the handling of high-risk cases, as "human rights" advocacy overrides risk assessment. Dangerous individuals are actively protected by a system that views incarceration as "oppressive."
And who benefits from this madness? Not the victims. Mainstream media, the propaganda arm of the progressive elite, twists these narratives to shield their sacred cows. Look at poor Zarutska's murder: CNN and MSNBC focused on "systemic failures in transit security" while downplaying Brown’s bail reform that freed him, framing it as a "tragic accident" rather than policy-induced homicide.
In the Nottingham case, outlets like The Guardian emphasized Calocane's "mental health struggles" to advocate for even softer laws, silencing reports of his ignored warnings and the family's pleas for intervention.
A 2024 content analysis by Frontiers in Psychiatry found that European and US media coverage of mentally ill offenders sensationalizes "stigma" while omitting key details on policy leniency, manipulating public perception to perpetuate the cycle.
Kirk's shooting? I bet that legacy media will start whispering "political motivations" to politicize it against conservatives, ignoring the shooter and his condition. Early coverage of Kirk's shooting emphasizes his close ties to President Trump and conservative activism, potentially framing the event through a political lens even as the investigation unfolds and the motive remains unclear.
Gaslighting, designed to keep voters empathetic to criminals and blind to the blood on liberal hands. That’s craziness!
This bloody narcissistic society drunk on distorted empathy, where protecting the perpetrator becomes a virtue signal, and victims are collateral damage. Really? Is this a society we want to live in?
Saad correctly calls it the "decline of the West". We live in an unstable cultural equilibrium where self-loathing elites import chaos under the guise of kindness. Peterson decries it as the triumph of resentment over responsibility. Promoting a victim hierarchy that elevates the violent unstable above the productive. We are, seriously, celebrating crime. We turn the streets into asylums and campuses into kill zones.
The anger boils over because this is personal. It's Kirk's final words cut short, Zarutska's dreams shattered on a train, innocents in Manchester paying for elite delusions.
Enough. It's time for accountability. Progressive judges, activist DAs, and media enablers must face the consequences of their suicidal empathy. We demand sanity. Restore psychiatric commitments, enforce strict sentencing for the violently ill, and defund the ideologies that prioritize feelings over facts. We need to return to the truth. Harsh, unyielding truth. If we do not, more graves will be dug by our own misguided hands.
Apologies for the angry tone of my writing today. Enough is enough.
A letter to Erika.
Dear Erika,
At this time of incomprehensible sorrow, my heart aches for you and your beautiful children. Charlie was a voice for truth and freedom, a loving husband, a dedicated dad, and a man of faith and passion who enriched the lives of so many, including me. I have watched him and listened to him countless times. He felt like a son to me, and he will be an example for my son to look up to.
The world is less bright without him, but his legacy of bravery, conviction, and abiding love will last forever in the hearts of those he reached. We won’t stay silent. Not anymore.
To you and the children, I hope you may find comfort in your recollections of his laughter, his steadfastness, and the love between you. Charlie’s passion and fight for a better America united the youth in a profound way, and inspired many all over the world.
I pray that you will find peace and purpose. You are not alone, and his light will live on through you and your kids.
With deepest sympathy and admiration,
Ioannis
This is true. Sadly I know this happens. It's ( please excuse my language) fukd up. I am coming to wonder if food or sensitivity to the lack of species specific nourishment in our diet might be a seed to mental unbalance. I wonder if my own father's schizophrenia might have responded better to true nourishment than electric shock treatment. There's ancestral wounding as well. A true spiders web of causation and a heap of denial. Thank you for writing.