utilizing the culture of Dylan Harris and Eric Klebold, and the fictive investigation involving J.G.

Ballard's novel, "Running Wild," in that the similar notion of rebellion, an exodus from

despondency. The deviation from the collective regard of an unchallenged social typology, is

perhaps the means by which the fostering of rage, and the repression of undesired familiarity, is

reduced to a form of deplorable aggression against the societal representatives of the ontology

the youths of either context sought to dissipate from. For instance, Harris and Klebold sought

escape from the "culture of cruelty" (Goldstein 42), while the children of Pangbourne Village, the

fictional representation of a "gated community," were seeking refuge from a "despotism of

kindness. They killed to free themselves from a tyranny of love and care" (Ballard 59). The

linear regression, of one's self from the collective standards and norms of society, provides the

disillusionment from reality, a reality socially constructed either by way of ridicule and

maltreatment, as was the subjective reality of Harris and Klebold, or in the form of a utopian

conceptualization, as was the reality of the thirteen minor subjects present within Ballard's,

"Running Wild."