Students of Heaven's Gate Expressing Their Thoughts Before Exit

Please note: for many years, I’ve been subjected to a campaign of stalking, harassment and online defamation. This has included but not been restricted to: spreading libellous falsehoods about me; seeking out private information about me by subterfuge; and tracking down my friends and colleagues and contacting them, anonymously or pseudonymously, with defamatory falsehoods about me. This campaign escalated to the point that I was ultimately driven to seek the help of the National Stalking Helpline, the police, and a law firm specialising in such situations, Collyer Bristow. Legal intervention was mostly successful in winding down the campaign for a time. Due to its occasional and repeated resurgence, however, if you should see or receive any untoward messages or claims about me, I would request that you don’t respond or engage, but that you forward them to my assistant using the contact details above, for our records. Thank you. ― CM

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Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

The problem I see is actually not from the side of the conspiracy theorists. It is actually from our side, from the side of science. Very often it is difficult not to look down. My friend said, "You know, sometimes the only way to change somebody's mind is to shame them." And I say, I don't think that is the last resort, ever. This is the same as saying that if a kid doesn't get a particular subject, it's not your fault as their teacher, it is their fault. I do not believe that. It's just that you haven't developed your empathy to be able to see from their point of view where they're getting stuck.

In Dave I sorta saw a man projecting his own shame and using the mythology of Trump and of these political movements and conspiracies to assign meaning to a broken life. To jump down the conspiracy rabbit hole, I think that if you've failed yourself or you've been failed by the world, it provides a way out.