He wrote a lot and while some of it seems typical of paranoid ramblings (eg cherry picking the lyrics of popular songs that fit his ideas of public demoralization), quite a few of his observations on financial chicanery seem grounded in reality.
I say 'seem' both because I've only had time to skim it so far, and it's very easy to cherry pick facts and put them together to form a powerful-seeming narrative in the pursuit of epistemic closure. Still, it's pretty coherent and rational as manifestos go (I collect things like this for research/journalistic purposes and have something like 100 of them, maybe more).
A few people on social media invoked 'horseshoe' theory to suggest that far left or far right people often end up in the same crazy place. While the man's writings are conspiracist, they don't really align with right-wing conspiracies; extremist thinkers often deride the greed of a ruling class, but right-wing authors are usually not satisfied with that and seek some sort of atavistic/essentialist explanation that allows them to ascribe a disproportionate share of human vice to specific outgroups.
This person identified himself (in a Reddit post) as an 'anarcho-communist' but seems to have been influenced more by Kropotkin than Marx, eschewing vocabulary and conceptual shorthand commonly used by Marxists. Overall it seems more technical than ideological, groping toward the idea that elites rule almost exclusively through a combination of blackmail and ponzi schemes.
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I say 'seem' both because I've only had time to skim it so far, and it's very easy to cherry pick facts and put them together to form a powerful-seeming narrative in the pursuit of epistemic closure. Still, it's pretty coherent and rational as manifestos go (I collect things like this for research/journalistic purposes and have something like 100 of them, maybe more).
A few people on social media invoked 'horseshoe' theory to suggest that far left or far right people often end up in the same crazy place. While the man's writings are conspiracist, they don't really align with right-wing conspiracies; extremist thinkers often deride the greed of a ruling class, but right-wing authors are usually not satisfied with that and seek some sort of atavistic/essentialist explanation that allows them to ascribe a disproportionate share of human vice to specific outgroups.
This person identified himself (in a Reddit post) as an 'anarcho-communist' but seems to have been influenced more by Kropotkin than Marx, eschewing vocabulary and conceptual shorthand commonly used by Marxists. Overall it seems more technical than ideological, groping toward the idea that elites rule almost exclusively through a combination of blackmail and ponzi schemes.