Weird guy at my gym. . .

[freshwest]

46. And such guys are walking around with guns. Thanks for explaining. I hope he gets help.

I guess in the case of the brother and sister I gave, he had a problem before Glen Beck. I blame the media a lot, but mental health issues are still stigmatized so there may be a lot of people like him, attracted to negative beliefs.

I read there is an addictive rush some people get listening to fearmongers. It gets their adrenaline up from the fearful things they hear, and when the rush wears off during the day, they lose focus and get tired. So they go back to get more since they don't have direction and very suggestible in that state.

There is a quote I read about this:

"Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads, which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time." J. A. C. Brown, 'Techniques of Persuasion'

I think his anxiety problem was preyed upon by these right wing demagogues. The Fox shows act as if the majority agrees with them, but everyone doesn't. Does that make sense to you?