He Wanted To Be A Hero

but he is not even a martyr, though it is really up to our elite if he turns into either.

Luigi Mangione is in custody in Pennsylvania, after killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. My last substack was a collection of Mangione’s X posts, mostly reposts, which do not paint the picture of a crazed killer, more like the relatively normal thinking of a young man trying to make sense of the modern world. He stopped posting last June, just as the election heated up, but he didn’t have anything to say about that. Something radicalized him, between now and then.

It has been instructive to see how many people have speculated as to why he did not work harder to evade capture. He obviously planned meticulously before, but had little to no plan for after. It has been doubly instructive to see people then speculate as to what he could have done to evade capture. Not only did he not alter his appearance in any way, he still had the fake ID he used at the NY hostel, and the murder weapon.

Not a few on the left have embraced him. There is a new narrative on the left, about Trump’s billionaire government. Never mind Kamala raised two billion in 100 days, which did not come from the grass roots - compared to the $400 million Trump raised. Mangione killed a CEO, Fox News is calling him anti-capitalist, it is typical of Marxists to hate capitalism. But there is nothing leftist in his Xitter feed, aside from a few offhand references to Climate Change. The left just needs a new narrative, so they are testing narratives, going back to basics, and Fox needs to turn him into a leftist.

A lot of folks responded to my post, like this whole thing feels like a psyop. Like maybe he was MK-ultraed, some patsy of the deep state, the whole thing is some kind of mirage. IDK, his X feed again seemed pretty normal, organic to me.

Mainstream media has mentioned chronic back pain a few times. Chronic pain can get one to feeling a bit desperate, like there is not that much to live for, if this is what it is going to be like. There is a lot of that in America, not necessarily chronic pain, but chronic despair. Maybe Mangione took that pain and directed it at a Health Care system that spends 4-6trillion dollars every year but can’t fix the back pain of an otherwise healthy 26 year old? He had some kind of back surgery, apparently, but it is like half-half, the people I have talked to about invasive back surgery, who got better and who didn’t. I can see how a failed back surgery for chronic back pain could make someone, particularly a young man, very bitter.

Mostly what I see in this case is a society that has been burdened by a mostly useless elite who think they can plunder the country with impunity. Where there is never enough money for Ukraine and Israel,

but next to nothing for Americans in Western North Carolina after Helene, in Lahina Hawaii after that suspicious fire, after that apocalyptic dioxin release in East Palestine Ohio. How many pension funds have been raided over the years? How many people have died, or lived miserably the rest of their life, because of insurance claims denied? Covid was mass murder, mass democide, mass iatrogenocide, most of the people who were forced to die alone were not killed by a microscopic bug, but by a mind virus that infected the health care cartel by way of HHS and the DoD - about which there has been exactly ZERO accountability.

The whole trans/woke thing is a society wide humiliation ritual. People cannot live under coercion like that forever, without acting out violently.

I don’t think Luigi Mangione is a psyop, or at least he wasn’t that until after he did the deed/was captured. I think he is like a first bubble that arose to the top, in a society wide stew set to simmer. I think he tapped into something in the American psyche of late, he is something like a bellwether, of a desire widespread, to take down elite. Most of our institutions public and private have been designed to avoid accountability of any kind, either for the institutions or those who work in them. That has resulted in a competency crisis, the ongoing collapse of complex systems, as incompetent elite only ever seem to fail up, hiring through DEI only those who will not question their incompetency, the institutions inevitably turning predatory. That has generated an enormous amount of antipathy in America, among regular Americans who have been the brunt of that.

How do I know my fellow Americans have been imagining assassinating elite, when we read or hear of some most egregious example of elite malfeasance and predatory behavior? Seriously, how many people have imagined killing Fauci? Dude has a $15mil security detail because of it. It is not just that, I am not particularly special, and I do it sometimes and not just about Fauci. It is rare, but always spontaneous. I am never going to act on such imagining, and I don’t feed it, I don’t indulge, but it does bubble up. Some of that stems from a sense of helplessness, that I see how predatory this system has become, and there is so little I can do about it but write about it on this lowly substack.

Mangione clearly imagined it, fed that imagining, fixated on it, brought it into being. I think mostly he is the bored spawn of elite, suffering from epic delusions of grandeur. And now he will likely have the rest of his life to contemplate that grandeur in a 8x10 cinderblock cell, probably 23-24hrs a day in isolation.

The challenge for Trump and his Administration is, can they make America feel less predatory? Can he restore anything like a sense of accountability? It is one thing to demolish the predatory deep state, to hobble the woke actors in the Institutions. But if capitalists like CEO Brian Thompson keep fleecing America? Blackrock keeps buying up houses and rentals, filling them with migrants. Blackrock and their private equity ilk have had a lot to do with the increasingly predatory behavior of Health Care. It will serve nothing to reduce the power of the Federal government and the managerial deep state, if “capitalists” continue to consolidate the gains at the expense of the vast majority. A predator is a predator public or private, Larry Fink at Blackrock a prime example, not to mention whoever the owners of the Federal Reserve are.

The point is, Luigi Mangione is neither a hero nor a martyr, but merely a sign of what is coming for the elite public and private of the West, if they keep up their predatory ways. That is as inevitable as the seasons. Our elite in their insulated obtuseness might yet turn him into a hero or martyr, if they continue the plunder. It does not have to be that way, a true restoration of America would include necessarily, the elite of America restoring something of a sense of noblisse oblige, taking care of the economy to benefit their fellow Americans, give us a sense of meaning and purpose, make us feel strong and secure in our status as citizens. We are not some resource to eternally exploit. Get it? I think some of our elite do, I remain optimistic. It think Trump understands that, and a lot of his administration. If our elite restore something of the promise of America, Mangione becomes just another lunatic crank. It is really up to our elite, whether or not he becomes a hero.