WhatifAltHist / Rudyard Lynch - History youtuber, galaxy brained, no credentials and no sex

[Nachos Bell Grande]

Lobotomy can also "help" the mentally ill. Do not encourage people to fuck up their brains instead of getting real treatment

Is real treatment sitting in a room with a white woman with all her college degrees on the wall and telling her how I feel? My bad medical doctors aren't as legit as therapists I forgot.

 

[Mister Fister]

Indulging for a minute in all of the lore of ayahauscha, I've always heard you should be doing it with a actual tribal shaman who can guide you and explain things to you and in a ritual. I know Rudy is always talking about living in Mexico and being so travelled, but I doubt he did the trip there. I feel like he got knock off ayahuasca from Shaman Steve who lives on 3rd Street and didn't have any guide or anything because he is Rudyard Lynch: 6'4", millionaire playboy, and cultural savior of the west, so obviously he can interperate these things himself.

Based on how he acts these days I don't even think the psychedelics themselves are to blame. More so Rudy's lack of harm reduction. I've known people who have done psychedelics tons of times and they've never mental fucked themselves because they'd take tons of precautions and have sober handlers. Even with kratom Rudy seems to just woof it down in big gulps. He takes high powered psychedelics regularly, inbetween days of chugging octopus mugs worth of kratom and honestly if you ask me he could be on Adderall or someother stimulant too.

So young Rudyard is daily on uppers, downers, and occasionally psychedelics that let you see demons. Pretty sure he's just possessed by a demon in viking cosplay.

I[ve heard of burgesia and other deleriant type plants being put in the ayahuasca mix by dishonest brujos.

 

[Computer God Autism]

Shocker banning things you don't understand out right because degenerates exist is how this country got so fucking retarded

No, closing the asylums and making the sort of behavior that used to land you in one high status is more to blame.

Sure, maybe microdoses of some psychedelics could help some people with certain chemical imbalances - even though the idea of depression being the fault of chemical imbalances has become increasingly discredited in recent years, I can still believe it can help in fringe cases. The problem is that argument is functionally the same as the people arguing for abortion access on the basis of rape babies; it's so statistically insignificant compared to what it normally is used for that it's just a transparent motte-and-bailey for people who are hooked on the most pathetic form of escapism possible.

Is real treatment sitting in a room with a white woman with all her college degrees on the wall and telling her how I feel? My bad medical doctors aren't as legit as therapists I forgot.

Who will then nod, check off some boxes on a clipboard and then prescribe you drugs that alter your brain chemistry anyways?

The problem with therapy is not that talking about problems to someone you trust can't help, it's that it's treated as a miracle cure by people (often parents) who would rather attribute the issues driving someone into therapy as being purely internal than something external that a therapist can't reasonably help with. The industrialization of the practice has also turned therapist offices into pill mills.

Some people are genuinely just born with a messed up brain but I believe the overwhelming majority of clinical depression nowadays can be more reasonably attributed to social factors, and I'd rather address those social factors than increasing the amount of people who are reliant on drugs to function.

 

[Nachos Bell Grande]

I'll be real guys I don't actually care about the ethics in psychedelics journalism enough to argue more. If it helps someone it shouldn't be banned entirely is my only point.

Yes people should speak to their familes to work out problems first and foremost I will include a full sheet of alternative methods before I minorly agree something different could be a benefit again.

Edit: If I was being fully honest my prescription for basically every terminally online retard would be quit gooning and read the bible lol but people don't usually accept that prognosis.

 

[Nicholas Gur]

I want a video on the althist if ruddy became an alcoholic instead. Worked out for his dad until the whole crazy wife thing.

 

[SaltyFantaMan]

Are you suggesting that a 23-year-old schizophrenic molestation victim is not the best source of historical knowledge

Don't forget polysubstance enthusiast

 

[AMHOLIO]

Actually a great idea for a deep thought thread: discuss the use of psychedelics for therapy here, whether you are for it or against it.

 

[Mister Fister]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/to-the-withcraft-plant-thats-spoiling-ayahuasca-tourism/

@AMHOLIO

 

[Fortyone]

I think it's evident rudyard was a malajusted sperg with PTSD beforehand, literally the exact type of person who shouldn't take psychedelics.

What got to me was the fact he was fiending for Kratom so much, if a person is taking kratom there's a 100% chance they are a weird freak and probably on very hard drugs.

 

[EzRolling]

I think it's evident rudyard was a malajusted sperg with PTSD beforehand, literally the exact type of person who shouldn't take psychedelics.

What got to me was the fact he was fiending for Kratom so much, if a person is taking kratom there's a 100% chance they are a weird freak and probably on very hard drugs.

I mean in my region kratom is sold in every head shop and beat gas station for $10+ a dose; don’t get how you could be friending
for something so cheap and readily available. Here it falls into more of the “fuck it let’s pick one up” category of drugs I think.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kaJdjVHnv7w&pp=ygUNV2hhdGlmYWx0aGlzdA%3D%3D

Don’t know if this was posted here. Really just sad if it’s all (or any) is true honestly. You know having a massive ego and savior complex would make sense to cope with such an awful early life.

 

[Joe Swanson]

Rudy should've listened to Mario

 

[LarpBait]

I actually enjoyed a lot of Rudyard's video essay content, even if it was flawed and imperfect. It seemed like he cared a lot about the subjects he talked about on his channel and saw it as a way of helping people parse through the world in the same way he did. There's a timeline where Rudyard was able to do more in-depth dives into subjects, propose genuine solutions to problems he saw, improve his video-making skills through better editing and research, and genuinely be a positive force in the world.

Like, I would have loved to see him visit rural PA and do a video discussing its history and downfall and what we could learn from that. I would like for him to go in depth into weird declassified CIA documents and talk about the interesting contents within and his opinions on them. Maybe take that money he supposedly has from doing YouTube and fund a couple non-profits centered on helping young men get jobs or start businesses. Just something more in-depth that could have helped end the problems he's describing (or at least alleviate the pain) or give us insight into the way he thinks and why.

This unfortunately did not happen, instead we got a schizo meltdown and his videos slowly converging into being the same seething at modernity. He stagnated then exploded. I think his two main flaws as a person are his sensitive ego and his drug abuse.

I think the most obvious view of his ego is his Twitter. Personally, I only discovered this when he was sparing with the groypers on twitter over the retarded wife wojak drama. The incessant need to defend his "honor" from a bunch of internet weridos makes me want to spit on him because of how gay it is. Him getting really butthurt online over that one cringe image of him being tossed around just makes him an easy target too.

Not to mention that he's tweeted 13.3k times as of writing on an account that's only 4 years old (see the top):

https://archive.ph/6JjTs

That's a little over 9 posts on twitter per day, which makes me think that he spent a lot of time on the platform instead of interfacing with the world as its lived. That's time he could have spent learning to edit to make better content or researching first hand sources online. He could have improved his content but instead just farted out nonsense tweets posturing about the world instead of doing anything. Maybe this is more of a general complaint about these internet "western world saviors", but Rudyard's delusions of being a prophet make this so much worse.

Speaking of the schizo-meltdown, Rudyard's drug abuse was telegraphed back in 2022 in his "10 Taboo Questions About History and Society":

Spoiler: Local Archive

Here, he discussed his use of Kratom to deal with stress and his interest in psychedelics for their spiritual utility. Even before this, he was dabbling in shamanism and talking about a version of Christianity which merges with the hippie pro-psychedelic movements (Tweet 1) (Tweet 2) (Tweet 3).

Many people here suspect Rudyard has Autism as well. If he does, that would further play into his use of drugs as Autistic people have trouble with the production of GABA (Ctrl+F GABA to read a summary) (another primary source), the chemical in the central nervous system responsible for calming the nervous system down. Still, this is unconfirmed as Rudyard isn't diagnosed with Autism (to our knowledge). Also, the research I'm citing is a layman's interpretation of scientific research into a poorly understood disease, and may be total BS.

Still, the seed for this breakdown was set a long time ago and given his self-admitted diagnosis of PTSD, along side knowledge of PTSD's treatment and use of drugs, particularly more obscure drugs, as crutch to deal with his problems.


My personal theory on Rudyard is that he was just a cringe history buff with a bit of an ego and an interest in obscure and esoteric ideas. However, his ego exacerbated as he fell more into drugs as a coping mechanism to deal with his life stresses, primarily his PTSD. The drugs aligned with his interests in history, religion, and esoteric thought and naturally he got into psychedelics because of that. From there, he spiraled further into insanity, which leads us to the meltdown. Maybe that was caused by schizophrenia being accelerated by the drugs or maybe was just a nerdy white boy getting one-shotted by Ayahuasca. I don't know.

Either way, I think that the only appropriate tone for talking about Rudyard is one of pity and a desire for him to get better. At his core, he's a goofball history buff who spends too much time online making videos about society's downfall that speak to enough people for him to have an audience. He doesn't seem to be malicious or evil like many people documented on this site are, just a little too far up his own ass, and way too far into drugs as a coping mechanism.

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[FightenGnome]

Maybe I am late to the party on this specific topic, but I showed the 13 min video to a friend of mine and he was of the opinion that there was no way that Rudy consumed Ayahuasca. He said the ego tripping, lack of details of the journey itself, and revelations seem different from someone who took it.

He first suggested DMT, but then was doubtful about that the more he thought about it. He claims that his ego certainly would make it a struggle for him to experience that journey as well.

He suspects it may have been other psychedelics or even other drugs mixed with his psychological issues. Anyone have any thoughts on that? I'm not an expert on this stuff.

 

[Rimanah]

Maybe I am late to the party on this specific topic, but I showed the 13 min video to a friend of mine and he was of the opinion that there was no way that Rudy consumed Ayahuasca. He said the ego tripping, lack of details of the journey itself, and revelations seem different from someone who took it.

He first suggested DMT, but then was doubtful about that the more he thought about it. He claims that his ego certainly would make it a struggle for him to experience that journey as well.

He suspects it may have been other psychedelics or even other drugs mixed with his psychological issues. Anyone have any thoughts on that? I'm not an expert on this stuff.

Rudyard was already mentally ill, I’d imagine that may contribute to it frying his brain in abnormal ways. And, at least as far as Rudyard has claimed, he only did Ayahuasca years ago. This isn’t like a Connor Murphy situation where he did it then immediately lost his mind.

I strongly suspect that it wasn’t his trips on whatever drugs he did that directly caused this. Instead, they just hastened schizophrenia onset that he was already likely predisposed to given his mother’s mental health history.

I’d also be shocked if the stuff he said in his 10 hour video isn’t greatly affected by his current readings. Iirc he’s indicated that he’s gone down an esoteric rabbit hole, with a lot of early 20th century stuff in particular. I believe he’s explicitly mentioned Evola. And I’d imagine, especially given Rudy’s penchant for metal, he’s at least familiar with Crowley even if he hasn’t actually read him. His Order of the Crimson Dragon larp reminds me a lot Crowley’s larps.
I’ll admit this is the religious in me talking, but messing about with that stuff is definitely not the pathway to good mental health, let alone spiritual health.

In sum, I think your friend is at least partially right. I don’t think it’s to the point where ayahuasca use can be ruled out, but what we’re seeing now is definitely not just a bad trip gone very wrong.

 

[One Winged Pear Farmer]

Maybe I am late to the party on this specific topic, but I showed the 13 min video to a friend of mine and he was of the opinion that there was no way that Rudy consumed Ayahuasca. He said the ego tripping, lack of details of the journey itself, and revelations seem different from someone who took it.

He first suggested DMT, but then was doubtful about that the more he thought about it. He claims that his ego certainly would make it a struggle for him to experience that journey as well.

He suspects it may have been other psychedelics or even other drugs mixed with his psychological issues. Anyone have any thoughts on that? I'm not an expert on this stuff.

Not sure on the minute differences but as far as I know Ayahausca produces DMT so it shouldn’t be all that dissimilar. It’s important to remember that while psychedelics have commonalities across different trips there is still a lot that can vary from person to person. While it usually helps with breaking down the ego it isn’t hard to imagine an extremely immature person going on a power trip thinking they are special

 

[Nicholas Gur]

I mean in my region kratom is sold in every head shop and beat gas station for $10+ a dose; don’t get how you could be friending
for something so cheap and readily available. Here it falls into more of the “fuck it let’s pick one up” category of drugs I think.

Bro when all that shit started popping up everywhere I just thought it was some kind of new cbd activation method like lip balm or some shit

Maybe I am late to the party on this specific topic, but I showed the 13 min video to a friend of mine and he was of the opinion that there was no way that Rudy consumed Ayahuasca. He said the ego tripping, lack of details of the journey itself, and revelations seem different from someone who took it.

He first suggested DMT, but then was doubtful about that the more he thought about it. He claims that his ego certainly would make it a struggle for him to experience that journey as well.

He suspects it may have been other psychedelics or even other drugs mixed with his psychological issues. Anyone have any thoughts on that? I'm not an expert on this stuff.

My understanding is that dmt is supposed to induce ego death and that's why its so revelatory for people that try it. That's said they usually (even when very heavy casual drug users) convey that they have no interest in ever using dmt a second time. Perhaps whatufalthistrionic contains a fabled super ego and all 7 attempts were failed ego suicides that only made it stronger in retaliation.

 

[Nachos Bell Grande]

Maybe I am late to the party on this specific topic, but I showed the 13 min video to a friend of mine and he was of the opinion that there was no way that Rudy consumed Ayahuasca. He said the ego tripping, lack of details of the journey itself, and revelations seem different from someone who took it.

He first suggested DMT, but then was doubtful about that the more he thought about it. He claims that his ego certainly would make it a struggle for him to experience that journey as well.

He suspects it may have been other psychedelics or even other drugs mixed with his psychological issues. Anyone have any thoughts on that? I'm not an expert on this stuff.

Definitely adds to my running theory Rudy got some bogus ayahauscha that was probably just some other high powered psychedelics mixed or something similar. It would explain why he had such intense trips and why they seem to just amplifly his delousions of granduer instead of giving him some actual insights. That combined with the latent schizophrenia is a recipe for Odin's Chosen.

 

[jewsernotfound]

i've done ayahuasca and dmt and i honestly doubt that he did either of them. POSSIBLY mescaline, but that's arguably more rare than the aforementioned pair.

 

[CervixHammer]

Not sure on the minute differences but as far as I know Ayahausca produces DMT so it shouldn’t be all that dissimilar.

Ayahuasca basically just DMT + an MAOI. DMT isn't orally-active unless combined with an MAOI (which should be taken separately and first, but apparently shamans know better than chemists and doctors), which also makes the effects last longer.

He suspects it may have been other psychedelics or even other drugs mixed with his psychological issues. Anyone have any thoughts on that? I'm not an expert on this stuff.

The psychological issues for sure. A lot of this is pretty common stuff when schizos take psychedelics. I'll just leave this here, with a couple of choice quotes that feel particularly relevant, bolded some things that felt especially Rudy:

Grandiose delusions (also known as delusions of grandeur) are characterised by a belief in one’s extraordinary nature, i.e. the belief that one is very powerful or enlightened. These delusions often have a religious, supernatural, or science-fiction theme. Grandiose delusions are common in bipolar disorder, manifesting in the manic phase of the condition. Mania involves an extreme elevation of mood and energy, resulting in lack of sleep, excessive talking, grand plans, distractability, and – in some cases – grandiose beliefs.

A common psychedelic delusion of the grandiose variety is the messiah complex (which both bipolar and schizophrenic patients have been known to experience). This is a mental state in which a person believes they are a messiah, saviour, or prophet, such as the second coming of Christ. They will feel a strong conviction about how their purpose is to save humanity.

Several factors increase one’s risk of experiencing a delusion during or after a psychedelic experience:

• A pre-existing mental health condition, particularly a psychotic disorder or bipolar disorder, which can make one more susceptible to delusions
• A pre-existing negative mental state, such as narcissism, ego inflation, paranoia, fear, psychedelic stigma, or conspiratorial thinking
• Tripping while sleep-deprived
• A lack of grounding techniques or strategies for handling difficult psychedelic experiences
• Combining psychedelics with cannabis, other psychedelic compounds, or other drugs (e.g. nitrous oxide)
• Taking high doses of psychedelics when inexperienced; in a public, chaotic, overstimulating, or unfamiliar setting; or without sober support at hand to help ground you in reality

 

[Elite Kipchak]

new history 102:

that's a rough hairline to be having at 23: