This is the last paragraph:
I don't want to be a person that just moves on from it and doesn't take accountability, because then I don't feel like you can grow. And I would love to grow. I would love to continue growing. I would be a better person. I just felt like I needed to clear things up for myself. Why was I there? Why did I do these things? Why did I stick around for so long? I don't have all the answers now, but I think exploring it and asking those questions and taking accountability was just sort of part of the process.
Okay, so taking accountability is a good thing, on the face of it. And I get how a young, naive kid could get sucked into something like this and have a hard time leaving. The whole thing does sound very cultlike. But where's the remorse for the terrible things he did while working for Jones? I'm just not getting it here. This is all about him, about his need to explain his actions to himself. He seems to realize what he did was bad and wrong, sort of. But I'm not sure he realizes just HOW DEEPLY bad and wrong his support of Jones' evil doings was. His attitude, as based on this article and nothing else, doesn't come off well at all. I hope there's more genuine remorse, contrition, even shame in the book itself, but I sure can't tell from this article.
The audio of the interview just went up at NPR. I'm going to give it a listen and see how this guy sounds, and what got left out of the article.
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