I dunno, mostly I view it as a tragedy. He needs some sort of help that he's not getting and the state of the world is just providing him ample opportunity to engage in confirmation bias in the meantime. I like to think that in a different era there'd be a stronger community support structure that would at least mitigate his psychosis so that even though he'd still end up a bachelor he at least wouldn't have gone completely over the edge like he has.
Something within him was fundamentally broken and the fact that we inhabit an environment where that can happen is very upsetting. No one should have to end up where he is and I view it as the collective failure of everyone other than him that it happened. I want a better society.
Blame the Gilette ad, and the survey after that said 52% of women agree with it. It's where I first saw him go off like that, a survey signaling what he already thought all along.
In a different society, I imagine he could have been really happy, honestly. An extended family and something worthwhile like growing a crop....The dude needs more than to touch grass. He needs to grow it. But he's also right in a certain sense. Women, as a group, have swallowed a set of falsehoods that make them have a unhealthy (mostly) sense of what is valuable and constitutes virtue. Contemporary women overwhelmingly lack humility, and I suspect that more than anything else is what theImp has detected.
He's just a mentally unwell European, you can't expect him to actually know things about America that most Americans don't even know.
Be happy he's here. It's entertaining and serves as a good reminder of what sort of thoughts people can actually hold.
I dunno, mostly I view it as a tragedy. He needs some sort of help that he's not getting and the state of the world is just providing him ample opportunity to engage in confirmation bias in the meantime. I like to think that in a different era there'd be a stronger community support structure that would at least mitigate his psychosis so that even though he'd still end up a bachelor he at least wouldn't have gone completely over the edge like he has.
Something within him was fundamentally broken and the fact that we inhabit an environment where that can happen is very upsetting. No one should have to end up where he is and I view it as the collective failure of everyone other than him that it happened. I want a better society.
Blame the Gilette ad, and the survey after that said 52% of women agree with it. It's where I first saw him go off like that, a survey signaling what he already thought all along.
In a different society, I imagine he could have been really happy, honestly. An extended family and something worthwhile like growing a crop....The dude needs more than to touch grass. He needs to grow it. But he's also right in a certain sense. Women, as a group, have swallowed a set of falsehoods that make them have a unhealthy (mostly) sense of what is valuable and constitutes virtue. Contemporary women overwhelmingly lack humility, and I suspect that more than anything else is what theImp has detected.
Agreed.