These talks about Carl's views made me think of a lot of things that have always bothered me about him.
The first thing that strikes me about Carl is that despite touting himself as an "individualist" he is a pretty hardcore essentialist. This can be seen a lot in his "debates" with Kristi Winters and Dick Carrier, where he assigns a series of beliefs and core traits to the two based on their status as "social justice warriors." When they display traits that don't fit his picture of what a social justice warrior is, he accuses them of being dishonest or disingenuous.
This is also a big reason why his debate with Andrew Anglin was so embarrassing, because he characterized Anglin as an alt-right Neo-Nazi, assumed a series of beliefs and personality traits, and then kept stumbling over himself and insisting that Anglin secretly agreed with said traits/beliefs when he didn't.
I might be incorrect but I would think that an individualist who espouses free speech absolutism should also be an existentialist who believes in the ability of people to define themselves. Instead, he just defines them and then expects them to act accordingly. It's very childish, which leads to my next point:
Whenever his beliefs on people are significantly challenged, he tends to break down. The way he reacted (and continues to react) to Jim "turning on him" reminds me of disequilibrium in kids. Basically, when a kid is exposed to a lot of new information that challenges their worldview they enter a phase as they try to incorporate that information. They generally will start acting out and being assholes as they do this, since they're no longer sure about themselves and are going under a lot of stress. However, this is shit that you go through when you're still growing up and your brain develops, not shit that you should go through when your internet "friend" calls you dumb and makes fun of your suit.
Furthermore, kids will eventually settle as they adjust and reach equilibrium again. Carl keeps freaking out because he doesn't seem interested in actually adjusting his worldview. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that he just wants the shit that makes him uncomfortable to go away, which leads to his recent attempts to deplatform others after the smuckling and big brain insults didn't work. This is a really bad strategy because his tantrums just attract more negative attention, which will make him more uncomfortable. He also plays a shitload of video games in response to stress, just increasing his overall time on the computer (which probably doesn't ultimately help anything since he can pop over to Twitter at any time and get mad again). My prediction at this point is that he'll either leave the internet entirely (unlikely, considering his tendencies to shout people down and try to grab the last word on everything) or continue doing the same shit until something bad happens (mental breakdown, divorce, who knows).
What I'd really like to know is what his wife thinks of all of this. Her husband is on the internet constantly talking about e-drama with people that do not affect them in real life at all. Does he complain to her about people she doesn't know and doesn't give a shit about? He's up really late into the night, and probably sleeps a lot during the day. How much do they interact? We don't know much but it seems like it would be incredibly strained at best. I can't imagine any of his personal relationships with non-Internet folk are going great, if he even has any at this point.
I'm gonna jump off this amateur psychology armchair and say tl;dr Carl's worldview is very childish and he can't deal with it when people don't fit his preconceived, uneducated notions of certain groups. He is probably going to keep in this downward spiral until we get a really big fireworks-filled payoff. I mean, just look at the progress he's made this year.
