The Degenerate Cries for Freedom and Dignity

I recently discovered Alex Rosen on X. Rosen entraps pedophiles to meet what they believe to be underage children for sex. In the process of these vigilante sting operations, he gets them to admit possessing, producing, or sharing child pornography. Then the cops show up and arrest the pervert.

His latest operation was particularly disturbing. Twenty-one-year-old Collin McGuire showed up at the house expecting to find a willing 11-year-old and her mother. Within ten minutes of arriving—in an adult diaper—he had defecated and urinated. He described child porn he has watched (“a 5 year old giving oral and getting raped by an older man”) and admitted to “wanting to have sex in a freshly ‘wet bed’.. after the 11 year old, her mom and he would urinate in it.” He had brought condoms and a vibrator.

Rosen uploaded a number of clips following the arrival of the police. As police officers enter the house, McGuire groans and says, “My parents are gonna kill me. I just told my mom I was done with the lies.” When told he is under arrest—while sitting in his diaper on a trash bag over the sofa—he mock cries and asks, “Can I at least get some dignity?”

After taking off the soiled diaper and being told repeatedly to put his pants on, he exclaims, “I’m having a fucking emotional breakdown! Please!” Banging on the coffee table for emphasis, he then shouts what sounds like, “I [slam] never [slam] wanted to [slam] be this [slam] way!”

Despite the above histrionics, he appears calm and unperturbed just prior, while removing the diaper and leaving himself naked from the waist down for the next several minutes. As he is attempting to put his pants on (unsuccessfully), he turns to Rosen and his team and has the temerity to tell them, “You guys are fucking sick.” One of the officers had this quick comeback: “You know what’s sick? Trying to solicit a minor for sex.”

In just the few minutes of footage available you can see several signs of severe personality dysfunction, including: 1) a total lack of self-awareness and shame, 2) the self-centered concern for himself and callous disregard for children’s well-being, 3) extremely deranged sexual fetishes on display, 4) projection against Rosen as being “fucking sick” for setting him up.

So who is McGuire? Twitter users immediately found his profiles, and it’s what you would expect. (And if it turns out not to be what you expected, please adjust your expectations from now on.)

His timeline is otherwise entirely made up of predictable liberal talking points and positions: e.g., reposting pro-vaccine RFK Jr. hate (“I cannot express how much I loathe this man”), anti-Putin nonsense (“Putin has threatened to kill everyone on the planet multiple times”), an accusation that Trump is providing Putin with intelligence to target Ukrainian military targets, and plenty of pro-Palestine/anti-Israel content. He hates Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Nazis, the KKK, and loves trans people and Luigi Mangione.

McGuire is a perfect representation of the psychopathology that inspires and parasitizes social movements. The most relevant issue here is his “pride.” He presents himself and people like him as “oppressed” and defiant. As a “pansexual” he will “kiss whoever the fuck i want to.” Otherwise normal leftists and left-leaning people will see his words and his very participation in such activism as a cry for justice, fair treatment, and the common respect that he deserves. Those who “hate” him and presume to tell him how to live his life—perhaps even “denying his very existence” in the process—are the villains: backwards, bigoted transphobes. Just look at his innocent-looking smile. In reality, he is one of the worst types of predators on the planet. And he fantasizes about raping children in a puddle of piss and his own excrement.

With a straight face he will call you sick for exposing him, with displays of righteous indignation. He will lash out at the normal majority who are disgusted by him. He will present himself as the one holding the correct moral positions (on everything, because he is an egotist), and all those who hold opposing positions as the epitome of human evil (i.e., “Nazis”). And to a naive observer, none of this will be obvious. They will see someone who is righteously indignant—and therefore must have a point. They will think there’s something wrong with the people who are disgusted by him—even though they will turn out to be correct in their judgment. And they will mistake the strength of his convictions for moral rectitude.

As Lobaczewski described it, on some level most of these people know there is something wrong with them. McGuire appears to have a moment of clarity (if it was not simply a pity ploy) when he screams that he never wanted to be “this way.” Since this realization is so uncomfortable, they do everything in their power to convince others (and by extension, themselves) that this is not true. This is the purpose of “pride.” It is a lie they tell themselves and others to self-regulate. By coercing and manipulating the majority to think there is nothing wrong with “pansexuality” (or any other degenerate sexual fetish), they kill two birds with one stone. Others can now affirm that they are, in fact, “normal,” thus letting off the external societal pressure. And they can even convince themselves that they are the normal ones, partially and temporarily relieving the inner pressure that comes with the basic awareness that one is broken in some fundamental way.

However, this lie must be maintained. And the impossibility of maintaining it lies behind the push for totalitarianism, since only total control can ensure no one “notices.” Every “noticing” is a reminder that one is not quite normal, and of what might happen when this fact is exposed: pedophiles get shanked, psychopaths get lynched or run out of town. So those who notice are paramorally shamed or otherwise eliminated. This is the root of cancel culture.

I often quote the following two excerpts from Political Ponerology because of their relevance in so many contexts:

To individuals with various psychological deviations, such a social structure [i.e. law-based] dominated by normal people and their conceptual world appears to be a “system of force and oppression.” Psychopaths reach such a conclusion as a rule.

In such people, a dream emerges like some utopia of a “happy” world and a social system which will not reject them or force them to submit to laws and customs whose meaning is incomprehensible to them. They dream of a world in which their simple and radical way of experiencing and perceiving reality would dominate—where they would, of course, be assured safety and prosperity.

When online commentators criticize the “woke,” the excesses of “identity politics,” or even the poorly named and mostly mythical “woke right,” this is what they’re grasping at. It is the psychology that underlies individuals utilizing ideology (any ideology, but some work better than others) to escape detection of normal people.

I’ve written before on the dynamics of psychopathology and ideology in more detail. See the following posts for more: