Agreed. The Internet made it easy to create bubbles of like-minded people, and ( bubbles + confirmation bias ) - dissent = ideological death spiral.

At some point, you're so self-brainwashed that you don't even need to stay in your bubble. Send Imp out in the real world, which is complex, and he'll still explain everything in terms of "women are trying to kill men".

Quite sad. Reminds me of the Nietzsche quote that he'll never forgive Christianity for what it did to Blaise Pascal. That is my view on the internet.

He would talk about how he was receiving mystical knowledge from somewhere, and paranoid that shadowy forces were trying to get him because of it. He could not be reasoned out of his ideas, he just knew these things.

This indeed sounds very familiar. And I just told him that he would die in a mental hospital (or worse) if he didn't fix himself up. However, the difference being is that just receiving it from somewhere, he picks up every straw he can grasp onto to support his pre-conceived notions.

But even he was capable of talking about other things. Imp1... I've never seen anybody so completely obsessed with a single idea that every topic has to be made about that idea. Not only is it unhealthy, it's just freaking boring.

He's often boring, but he can also be funny. Particularly when he tries to defend his crazy.

The one thing I don't understand is that his crazy had led him to make many bad predictions. If that were me, I'd re-evaluate. But he just plows on, making new predictions even crazier than the ones before.