Fascinating

The 21st century is a weird and wonderful place to live.

From the comments of the previous Money as Debt videos I came across this guy:




He has 126 (!) videos on YouTube, which he posts in response to other people's videos. All of them are about the same length and contain basically the same rant/information:

• he is a US armed forces veteran
• he claims his old boss was murdered but it was framed as a suicide
• he claims he was abducted and forcibly injected
• he claims someone tried to 'assassinate' him
  
• he doesn't trust the government and wants them out of power (through violent revolution)
  
• he believes we're in the middle of a technological war an doesn't trust technology (despite using YouTube to spread his message)
  

He also apparently wants to attend a local city council meeting again some day since he was (perhaps unsurprisingly) barred from them.

Now, I'm not laughing at the guy...he's obviously got serious issues. Who knows what exactly caused them or when they cropped up. But man, what a fascinating case. How many thousands of people must exist like this in the world? Does he feel like he's accomplishing anything with these videos? Man, the whole situation just blows my mind. The only reason I know about this guy is because he's chosen to make and share these thoughts on the web (I just watched a new one where he says he'd like to move to Iran) -- and yet now, because of the Internet, I have a partial glimpse into the bizarre life story of one individual whom I otherwise would never know existed. I wish I could offer the guy some help, but I really don't feel like there's a whole lot I could accomplish from across the world (I have a hard enough time keeping in touch with friends and family, let alone crazy strangers). And now the only reason you know about him is because you choose to read the thoughts that I share and publish on the web.

Wow, I love new media.

EDIT: Man...the more videos I watch, the more weird quirks I learn about the dude...I mean, it's pretty much the same material over and over again, but every now and then he'll just a drop a sentence here or there and it will completely come outta left field (my favourite so far is how he wouldn't have bombed Hiroshima because of all the beautiful japanese women there). What an incredible character!

EDIT 2: There's a new idea he seems to be advocating lately: a control child. Have one child that gets injections and medicine from the government and goes to public school and have another that avoids all of that and is home schooled. I'm not convinced either of them would turn out ok...