Before Breakfast

In a world saturated with misinformation, mythic narratives, and elite conspiracy lore, some individuals weaponize fantasy to mask disturbing truths. I met one man. He claimed to be a 1500-year-old alien, a member of the Illuminati, and proudly associated himself with the Cuomo-linked mafia. Beneath the theatrics lay a darker reality: he was a child molester. 

Our cultural fascination with darkness — figures who transgress moral and legal boundaries — has deep historical roots. From medieval broadsides recounting the crimes of outlaws, to Victorian penny dreadfuls, to 20th‑century true crime magazines, societies have long packaged deviance as spectacle. Early criminologists like Cesare Lombroso searched for the ‘born criminal,’ pathologizing deviance as biological destiny, while Émile Durkheim argued that crime is a normal feature of social life, clarifying the boundaries of collective morality. In the 20th century, psychology shifted the frame: Freud located aggression and eros within the psyche; behaviorists highlighted reinforcement; and later, social-cognitive theories explored how scripts and schemas shape attraction and imitation. Contemporary frameworks — attachment theory, dark triad research (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy), and parasocial relationships — help explain why some individuals are magnetized by lethal charisma while others recoil. Today’s media ecosystem accelerates these dynamics, rendering the transgressive both hyper-visible and algorithmically intimate.

People who live with, love, or grew up around someone who commits murder face a fraught mix of loyalty, fear, curiosity, moral reckoning, and practical choices. This integrated article maps developmental and social patterns across contexts — childhood trajectories, radicalized mass violence, cartel networks, and serial offending — then explains why ordinary relationships persist, how shared habits and simple interests form bonds, and offers clear, actionable guidance for maintaining connection while protecting safety, centering victims, and preserving your own moral integrity.

Modern intimacy is changing fast. As committed polyamory moves from whisper networks into more visible cultural conversation, the question of structure matters. Who coordinates schedules, mediates conflict, holds boundaries, and keeps the household culture intact? This article argues that centering women in leadership roles within committed polyamorous constellations can produce clearer consent, stronger safety, and better emotional management, and it contrasts that ethical model with a grotesque sci‑fi image used as a moral foil: the horror of people reduced to commodities in alien‑farm narratives.

Attraction and association: a precarious gravitySome people, by history, habit, or circumstance, draw toward them a particular kind of company—individuals who traffic in violence, intimidation, or the darker trades that prey on vulnerability and trade in torture. That gravity isn’t always about choice: it can be the residue of old reputations, informal debts, shared survival strategies, or the narrow local economies that kept them afloat. Whatever the cause, the presence of those associates changes the texture of everyday life for the person trying to rebuild and for everyone around them.