This man

June 15, 2001 7:21 AM

This man is so fascinatingly delusional. Why has he not been required to get some mental health treatment? The overall attitude in the United States toward depression, schizophrenia and other mental illnesses is absurd. Mentally ill people of all types, particularly poor ones, are stigmatized, receive poor or limited or no care. The 1970s discharge of thousands of mentally ill patients onto the streets and subsequent public policy on the treatment of mental illness, particularly in the poor and homeless has continued to impact our lives as well as those of the people in need of care.
posted by jfwlucy (15 comments total)

link here which is different from the one on p. 1.
posted by jessamyn at 7:26 AM on June 15, 2001

i'm still bitter over the ACLU's litigation toward tossing those hospitalized in mental institutions onto the streets. particularly now, when treatment is much better and ethical standards can be better maintained.
posted by moz at 7:31 AM on June 15, 2001

PS: I Think this is the same "Future President", "Future Trillionaire", etc. that was featured here about a month or so ago; the one who was going to Marry Kidman, his soulmate, before ascending to his throne.

If so, I would say Kidman better hire a hitman, because this guy is one loose cannon with a full charge and a short fuse...
posted by Perigee at 7:54 AM on June 15, 2001

He must be a pimp if he was able to get Jakob Nielsen to design his website.
posted by Hankins at 8:04 AM on June 15, 2001

I believe he is a drug using surfer.

What do people have against surfers?
posted by rdr at 8:08 AM on June 15, 2001

What do people have against drug users?
posted by ookamaka at 11:02 AM on June 15, 2001

Why would a drug use a surfer?
posted by briank at 11:04 AM on June 15, 2001

> What do people have against surfers?

They gave the world bleached crewcuts and baggy shorts.
posted by jfuller at 11:04 AM on June 15, 2001

It would take a long time to give the whole world crewcuts.

Those surfers must be very dedicated people.
posted by sonofsamiam at 1:27 PM on June 15, 2001

Last but not least, why is Ben Affleck stalking me and following me? In the two months after I met Nicole I caught him following or stalking me 5 times: three times on the streets in Santa Monica, once on the hiking trail near Nicole's home, and once, on May 8, he, or someone who looks a lot like him followed me into the Men's room at my office, and, dressed like a Frenchman, with a "pencil" or "toothbrush" moustache, and a French shirt on, simply looked at me, smiled and waved goodbye and said "sorry". I guess this was supposed to mean that I couldn't go to Cannes this year...

Wow.
posted by Dirjy at 2:28 PM on June 15, 2001

I really didn't read very much of the page but it seems like it might be an attempt at a promo for his film (or *someone's* film) called "the activist". I could, of course, be way off the mark.
posted by davidgentle at 2:37 PM on June 15, 2001

Well, Nicole Kidman had a restraining order put up against him
posted by owillis at 2:39 PM on June 15, 2001

Damn, this also serves as a pretty perfect example of how the media can affect our perceptions of such stories -- Hooker doesn't seem like such a wacko here, does he?
posted by tweebiscuit at 3:45 PM on June 15, 2001

(that is, in the story linked to above.)
posted by tweebiscuit at 3:46 PM on June 15, 2001

I could see voting for him. He is the only candidate that seems prepared to deal with the coming shift of the Earth's axis, or a hostile alien attack. The two party system in the United States leaves us totally without a defense against Martians. He doesn't do a very good job of defending himself on the sanity issue, but neither did McCain. Oh well, it should be an interesting campaign.
posted by hwright at 8:54 PM on June 15, 2001