It's easy to just make wisecracks about this whole thing (and fun too), but it's also genuinely amazing. What a psychological drama. If OJ weren't such a media-frenzy, Tonight-Show-gimmick icon, he could be the subject of a classic novel. Or an HBO series - he's like Tony Soprano, divided against himself, secretly wanting punishment, letting his self-hatred and the repression of his other nature manifest in self-destructive behavior.

I bet a lot of his anger at Nicole in the book is just the kind of thing he needs to say in order to make the confession, saying it as much to himself as anyone. We can all relate to this, right? When you're confronted adversarially with something bad you did (by another person or your own conscience), your admission is often made by screaming about how
you were provoked or you were justified or whatever.

But you've also got to figure that this extreme kind of outburst has to do with the level of media attention his case got, that a confession has to mean confessing to the entire American public.

This whole OJ drama is just so fascinating. But I tend to think this book "confession" is not an attempt for OJ to clear his name or justify his bizarre actions - the spying on Nicole, the raging jealousy, etc. Instead, I think that OJ is revealing (albeit unknowingly) an extraordinarily narcissistic sociopathology, and that he cannot help marveling at himself and the miraculous stroke of luck that has made him a free man.

Think about it. Someone you loved (at some point) and had children with is murdered in a particularly gruesome manner. Aside from the deep pity a normal person would have of this horrible tragedy of her death - no matter how much anger or resentment may have come to a head between you, you would also be devastated by the affect on your children being left without their mother. As if this is not bad enough, imagine you were the one accused of being her killer, whether found guilty or not, wouldn't it be your life's crusade to make this terrible situation as least destructive to these kids and her family as possible? There is absolutely no way an innocent person would write such a disturbing "hypothetical" account - why stir the pot?

Oj is an extremely depraved individual, and even if his murdering Nicole and Ron was done in some kind of raging delusional state (and I don't doubt that it was), it is inconceivable that even in his rational state of mind he can justify his horrendous actions. I believe there is nothing he is incapable of, including killing his kids or any other unfortunate soul that crosses his path.