Paranoid Schizophrenia is a hell of a thing.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2024
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What an awful, yet unfortunately expected, end to his story. Hopefully people on the fringe see this as the cautionary tale that it is and try backing away from extremist social media. Otherwise we're going to see more people doing more drastic things.
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Sad to hear this person died.
Have to say, seems like being in the state of mind that you're willing to kill yourself because of a given cause doesn't often overlap with having the media savvy to capitalize on such a drastic action.
Maybe we'll find out more, and it will have more of an impact. But just thinking about how before Aaron Bushnell someone else had apparently self immolated, but I don't know their name or specifically what the reason was. I only know because articles about Bushnell mentioned it in passing. And even for Bushnell imagine if someone had messed with his phone or even accidentally blocked the image? Without that visual spreading online it would just be another blip in the news cycle.
I feel bad for this guy. I mean, he felt passionate enough about his cause to feel that the only way to draw attention to it was to self-immolate. But his cause is.... what, exactly? I've read a few articles and couldn't really figure it out.
It seems to me he was a bright guy who believed what he read on the Internet, and when his mother passed he lost any moderating influence in his life, so that he had no one to pull him out of the conspiracy theories. It was the lack of critical thinking that killed him in the end.
His manifesto is at https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside
He was clearly mentally ill.
I was skeptical of the mental illness angle until I clicked on the link. This guy was deeply into conspiracy theories.
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I have always said that setting yourself on fire is bad for your health, and this just proves my point.
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The New York police department said the man, who they identified as Max Azzarello of St Augustine, Florida, did not appear to be targeting Trump or others involved in the trial.
It took The Guardian four paragraphs to get to that. This is why Trump's people are going to turn this guy into a martyr. Because the media isn't making it clear enough that this had nothing to do with Trump.
Sounds like, on limited info, he went where he knew cameras would be.
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