A number of times he's said something that convinces me he's crossed the schizo line, but it makes some sense when you think about it. I also like that he's building a private land cooperative kind of thing. I enjoy his music, too. Overall he's kind of a nice break some days, when nothing else is live.
Is that what he is actually doing? There are a lot of former Bears that say otherwise. He basically raised over $300k very quickly to buy himself an Idaho property, on the back of a campaign called Beartaria. But many are saying so far it's all empty promises. It started as a promise to allow people to camp on the property, so he got $400 donations from a lot of people. It morphed into this kind of ideological thing, where the meaning of Beartaria just became subjective (it could be your own backyard), and he began to him-haw about whether he felt safe having strangers on his property (this was after he raised hundreds of thousands of dollars).
I stopped watching him around that time period, because there were a lot of sketchy things happening that weren't being truthfully addressed. He'd gotten his 72 followers into that mess with Patreon, where they were being sued. He and Teddy were not at all straightforward about what was happening there. They kept treating it like they were destroying big tech, when really their 72 fans got hung out to dry. At the same time, Owen suddenly had to get the fuck out of Washington, hence the campaign to raise money to go to Idaho. He set up an LLC in Idaho and started liquidating his properties in other states.
I'm not at all convinced that he was setting up a land cooperative. I don't think he'd take the risk, honestly. Perhaps for a few of his insiders, but definitely not for the 800 or 1,000 people he took $400 bucks from. He seems to waver between whether it's going to be a camp site, or a place to hold events.
I peace'd out. Between all of the above, his relationship with Vox, and him starting to host these pagan theosophists on his channel, debating the nature of the Trinity in total ignorance, it just got schizophrenic. Where he started was a good place, but it has devolved into the same kind of weird psychology you see with cults of the past. If you began to say anything about his strange religious speculations, you were banned. He was drinking turpentine, and started really getting cozy with Islamic ideas. It was just all over the map. It's not a good idea to follow somebody just because they're an 'alternative community' and because it feels good to feel like a part of something.
I think I'm on the same page tbh. It always struck me as off that anyone would send money for someone else's land, instead of saving it for his own.
I suspect he's intentionally pushing the line to be entertaining. Scott Adams does this too, he says stupid shit to get people riled up so they talk about him to their friends.
Could well be that's an element. He's also supposed to be really smart, and I suspect people like that, who don't modulate their conversation to seem more normal, sound crazy sometimes.
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