There's so much about that article that boils my bones. I'm trying to even put it into words. I guess, what I see is a portrait of sad people who are looking to blame others for their problems, and a charlatan leading them, pointing them in the direction of a relatively easy target. He may not be Jim Jones, but these people sure have drunk the Kool-Aid. One thing that really struck me was the violence in the words, whether a "joke" or not 'he says he lodged a complaint against his ex, the beginning of a legal battle that led him to a hunger strike. "I should have killed the bitch five years ago," he tells me. "I'd be out by now."' 'Elam's proposal to make October "Bash a Violent Bitch Month," in which men should take the women who abuse them "by the hair and smack their face against the wall till the smugness of beating on someone because you know they won't fight back drains from their nose with a few million red corpuscles."' The whole section with the "Most Unconsensual hug I have ever known" is fucking nightmare fuel. this comment, however, brought a bit of a laugh: but only because if I didn't laugh, i'd have to cry.'Responding to a feminist critic, he once wrote, "The idea of fucking your shit up gives me an erection."'
Elam's white, but he identifies with Malcolm X; he believes he needs to shock society to be heard. He says his talk of "the business end of a right hook" and women who are "freaking begging" to be raped is simply his version of Malcolm's "by any means necessary."
Jesus christ.
How fucking delusional and separated from the real world can one person be? I'm a frequenter of SRS so I see the terrible shit from redditors-- probably the most disconnected people on Earth-- all the time. But this is a completely different level. I can never decide if these people are more pathetic and worthless and meaningless to the general public, or to be terrified of them because they're dangerous and sociopathic, a small group, but will somehow be able to recruit a large amount of people.
it may seem an extreme reference, but this book was one of the first that came to mind as I read the article - Hence the Jim Jones reference. I don't think this dude is anywhere near as convincing as Jones of Koresh, but he's using a lot of the same tactics to a certain degree of effectiveness.I can never decide if these people are more pathetic and worthless and meaningless to the general public, or to be terrified of them because they're dangerous and sociopathic, a small group, but will somehow be able to recruit a large amount of people.
also loved the "cu-coo for coco puffs" comment in regards to a woman assumed to be cheating on her husband with a black man. I read that and was like, what the actual fuck.