Anyone Else Sad That Molyneux Jumped the Shark?

I mean it. Molyneux is actually one of the main voices that brought me from minarchist to Anarchist. Even a few years ago when I started listening to him, he always did have a few cringeworthy moments like that whole child abuse thing, but he had some amazing (to me, at the time) philosophical points that really hit home. Essentially, he just took public choice theory to its logical conclusion for me. For whatever reason, the hints of idiosyncrasies in his old content have evolved into full-blown bat-shit craziness (see edit) and have taken over his entire persona.

As a side note, I really loved when he and Peter Joseph had it out. I started clapping my dorito-stained sausage-digited hands together while belting out the excited barking of an overfed walrus (ORT ORT) when he decided to basically just cuss him out -- utter hilarity. (further tangent: I mean, in his introduction of himself Joseph even referred to his old marketing job as "I was engaged in the communicative arts" -- he basically introduced himself as a professional douchebag).

Watching his stuff as sporadically like I do now is like watching a montage of a man's well-rehearsed mutterings as he descends into insanity. Everyone knows by now the cult-like atmosphere he forms around himself and has seen the misogynistic-to-the-point-of-being-a-parody-of-itself videos he currently puts out. The weird flashbacks he seems to have of his apparently abusive youth keep on influencing his content. There's also the contradictions when it supports misogynistic or conservative points of view on situations (like supporting the cops/racists/some jackass just because the Media is wrong).

I'm actually sad that I can't find a libertarian/conservative friend on the verge of "getting it" and can't send them a link to his older videos, for fear that they'll look a the rest of his God-awful crazy pants content. It's such a sad, missed opportunity to have a solid voice for our point of view.

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Edit: Some of you ( who I agree with ) have pointed out my poor choice of words. Here's a list of of some crazy things Molyneux has done:

• Recommending FDR users abandon family and friends who disagree with them (De-foo)

• DMCA notices against people he disagrees with

• Purging commenters from FDR forums he doesn't like

• Constant pandering to every anti-liberal cause, even when it violates the NAP; such as saying what Garner did wasn't a victimless crime (selling cigarettes should be punished??)

• CLICKBAIT

I really don't think my language is counterproductive (nor all that hyperbolic, really), we really should distance ourselves from this megalomaniac. Moreover. I thought this was accepted wisdom here, as I learned about a lot of his craziness from here--to see a community freely call-out, dissociate, and denounce one of "their own" takes a lot of integrity, which is part of the reasons I love this subreddit.