[Billthedrill]

I could go either way on the mentally ill question. But first and foremost, Churchill hates Western culture in general and the United States in particular in a full-volume torrent that normally stable people find frightening. And for a very special reason - it feeds him and pays his rent, and it has since he found it a niche within an over-tolerant university environment. He's a fake intellectual, a fake revolutionary, a fake artist, and if there once was a spark of a genuine human being in him it was long ago deliberately crushed out in favor of an assumed persona that need not be genuine to be romantic.

That's what feeds Churchill, the romance of hatred and the admiration it garners from those too young or hate-filled themselves to know any better. You will notice his scorn for those not committed enough to assault Wall Street and you might wonder why his own skin remains whole. It's because he's a fake, just as everybody who eggs on others to fatal stupidity while remaining safely on the sideline is a fake. This covers most of the imams who send teenagers out with suicide belts year after year. That's precisely what Churchill is advocating above. His own suicide would be an action far too genuine for him to accomplish.

[Ramius]

Well said, Mister Drill. I think you're onto something there. He's just a big fake. Everything about his life is phony. He's mistaken notoriety for wisdom.

If he were to just sit back and ~not~ say outrageous things, then he wouldn't get invited to all the best parties and have gullible co-eds waiting with baited breath for his next psychotic utterance.

He probably gets chicks this way. Looking at the dude, he's not going to get them hanging around in yuppie bars... so why should he stop? I've had the misfortune of visiting Boulder on many occasions. I've even had the misfortune of dating in the Boulder Birkenstock environment... and I'll tell you... politics in Boulder are in a ~whole~ 'nother world of "shallow".