Coltan Scrivner

And so what do they become?

They become someone who, a parasite, someone who, if they're extra violent, could be a serial killer.

And so humans had this whole new type of aggression that no other species had encountered, and they were entirely unprepared cognitively to predict this.

Again, in the past with reactive aggression, the reactively aggressive person or animal is telling you, I'm going to hurt you if you try this, right?

There was no question about it.

With proactively aggressive people, they sit back and they let those thoughts kind of fester and then they plot and they plan.

And when they see you, they're not going to give you any indication that they're going to try to hurt you because that would lower their chances of success.

And so what's the only way to learn about somebody who's proactively aggressive?

It's to learn about

their story after they did the thing.

So after they committed the crime, how did they do it?

Why didn't we know this person was going to do that?

What cues did they miss that they could have picked up on?

Why didn't Caesar know that the senators were conspiring against him?

That's the essence of the true crime story, right?

That's why true crime stories mostly focus on the aggressor.

It's not because

the stories themselves are morally bankrupt or the people who are telling them are morally bankrupt.

It's because the thing people are most interested in is who is this person?

Why didn't we know that they were going to do this?