Everything is explained in that last panel, the "dirty, twisted, cruel, and ugly dungheap world" he is referring to isnt the DC universe."
It's ours, Jason is nearing meta-awareness because of all the ridiculous things he has been through since his creation.
He was the Dick Grayson clone, "He wanted me to be you"
Fans didn't like that, so he was retconned in the first Crisis, changing his hair to black, and altering the origin story from another circus performer to a street hoodlum with an attitude.
The opposite of Dick.
Fans didn't like that, so he was killed off in "A Death in the Family"
He was "brought back" in Hush to mess with Batman's head, idea springs up of "hey he was the badass Robin, lets make him the Badass Anti-Hero in the Bat Family since Azrael is dead"
Retconned into existence by the Superboy Prime Punch, becomes a Anti-Hero that puts Batman into some awkward situations. Fans rage over his actual resurrection.
Goes back and forth as an Anti-Villain for a while, gets involved with the disaster that is Countdown. No one likes that. Following Bruce's departure elevated to full villain status. Fans complain about that.
Grant Morrison tells us of all of this in Batman & Robin, he wasn't messing up his character, he was taking it in the next step that it is going in, and it probably will never stop.
Jason wants to be good, he wants to be liked. But its too late, its far too late, and we are the reason. All the character changes he has gone through the years, it's because of us. DC has this character that they want to use, but don't know how, as the fan base will argue over him until he is gone.
Morrison wants to create a living breathing DC universe that is conscious and self aware. He already has, but you just don't know it yet.
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