Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost
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- Joined
- Nov 12, 2018
I like Styx and don't disagree with that outlook but he fetishizes the "white-trash" thing a bit. Some of it is sensible, some of it is more of an aesthetic fixation than a philosophy. He tends to look down on anything that reeks of cash because he sees it as artificial/inauthentic.
I don't think it's a fetish rather than a self confession that he's from a lower middle class income band and he was never able to mesh in properly with the "cool kids" and so at some point in his life stopped trying, and embraced being an eccentric and a non-conformist.
From some of the stuff he's talked about in his past, him adopting Christianity and getting rejected by his peers, and some other bits and pieces about his past. As well as his early goth set up which he's moved away from, it's clear to see that he was probably that typical kid in high school who was operating at a different level in terms of his thinking and therefore was probably socially isolated growing up.
A lot of things can factor into this, but I think if you look at the things he's proud of, it makes sense that he's proud of his economic background, because that probably was disparaged as a kid, proud of his occultic interests, because it worried the normies and the hypocritical christian's at his school, and adopted an eccentric dress sense, because it was what he found comfortable, and didn't care if it made other around him uncomfortable.
His parents probably had a lot to do with his development as well. Styx has always struck me as a sort of 70's style self sufficiency non-conformists, who didn't fit in with the hippy movements. The types who used to write for Loompanics, or start their own weird publications, while making moonshine in their back yard and selling it alongside their produce at the local farmers market.
Either way I'd say out of all the weird youtubers I follow, he's the likeliest candidate that I could see myself hanging out with and enjoying the conversation.