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Lucas is doing something in his newest video from today that I hadn't seen or remarked upon before: he's walking back and forth, dropping all these scientific terms, talking about stock market crashes, and Marfan syndrome, talking about telomeres, and the right supramarginal gyrus of the brain, and in the background we can hear that he's quite close to a large group of people who are happily talking and laughing, presumably other people from the homeless shelter?
I don't know why, but I got this idea in my head that what Lucas is doing with this video is performative.
He wants to seem smart, he wants to seem busy and mature, he wants people to come up and ask him what he's doing, so he can say he's doing scientific research or something.
I've seen little kids do this type of thing when they're unable to socially interact with a group of their peers; they busy themselves with some bit of complicated playing pretend, in hopes that they either look interesting to other people or they seem unconcerned that they're being isolated.
This is Lucas to a T; he wants people to ask him about all these stock market crashes, and he wants to be able to tell people that he gets interviewed for a podcast about all of his thoughts, he desperately wants to be taken seriously, just as
@wenttobermuda as indicated.
Once again, it's behavior that you generally don't see in adults, and you don't even generally see it in all children, you see it in a specific sort of socially isolated child who has great difficulty interacting with his peers.
Every so often, you can see Lucas glance up at the group of people talking happily around him, he wants to be included and this is a healthy social impulse, at least he's not comfortable in his isolation.
But, he's entirely unable to, as we've said, read social cues, to understand what sorts of behavior are going to be perceived as acceptable and unacceptable to peers, and so he tries to put on this performative display of what he sees as Alpha adult mature male Behavior.
Because Lucas isn't an intellectual, it amounts to nothing but dumping a bunch of jargon which he uses incorrectly and misunderstands.
Now, a person new to Lucas might hear some of these terms, "right supramarginal gyrus of the brain" for example, and think 'wow he's quite intelligent!', most people don't insert technical scientific terminology like that in common parlance.
But of course we know that it's Lucas's sad, retarded attempt at peacocking, and once you get used to him, no one is fooled by it.
A man who admits to regularly urinating in his pants as a 40-year old is not the sort of man who uses the phrase "right supramarginal gyrus of the brain", Lucas.