TL;DR: My man realized we're in a capitalist death cult because a system built on unlimited growth in a world with limited resources is unsustainable, no surprises there. That Crypto is a ponzi scheme (yep, we're way ahead of you, bud). And proceeds to blame the left for using ACAB as a slogan and 1980s television and post-apocalyptic movies and the Beatles and Stanley Kubrick saying they're supposed to have brainwashed us and have stopped us from learning the truth about capitalism somehow as part of some conspiracy with Harvard. I'm gonna pass on this manifesto and plant myself on the: "this guy should've gotten help" side

Edit: shit how'd I forget the Simpsons?

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget that the Simpsons play a huge part as well. Even citing two episodes in his blog post.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

In his case he self identifies so much with the plot of the show that he's convinced it's actually nefarious brainwashing.

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I wasn't thinking of this sort of person when I said this.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

NGL I prefer this type of conspiracy idiot over the "I'm angry so I'll do a mass shooting" idiot.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside

That is his justification.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's sad. He's not wrong about many things but his brain's pattern association has gone off kilter.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

It's like this other lady just said:

it's not like he's wrong about most of what he said, but the days when seeing yourself on fire to call attention to what's going on is more than a blip on the radar are long gone.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Mental illness is a hell of a drug

[–] robinn_IV@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want to know what the pamphlets say.

[+] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that was definitely something.

So he understood the Simpsons, a Clockwork orange, and 1984 except thought that the subject matter was being praised rather than being shown as a bad thing? I am going to assume the other referenced media is the same.

I don't think you need to set yourself on fire to convince people shits fucked and getting worse. But. I don't think it is because of "that"

[–] robinn_IV@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was right about 1984, it’s defeatist nonsense.

[–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I took 1984 as more of a cautionary tale rather than defeatest

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I recently had an interesting discussion where someone interpreted the pessimistic ending as a result of successful in-universe propaganda from the Party, and that all the shit they said was just gaslighting and lies to make themselves seem omnipresent and make resistance seem hopeless.

I don't think this was the intended message but the author is dead, we can make up our own head canons and no one can stop us!

[–] Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

If you interpret the appendix as an ending then it's a lot less pessimistic as it implies that all totalitarian regimes eventually fall.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

And it had little if anything to do with dumb orange

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago

Between this and the war criminal who self-immolated for Palestine, it seems a lot of villains are having their literal come to Jesus moments.