This is well said; for an atheist, he does have a lot of magical thinking, doesn't he?
Just one of the many contradictions inherent in Lucas, as we've all noted time and time again.
He does have that Chris-Chan tendency to think that what affects him sets the standard for the rest of the world. For example, his experiences with Gen Z women in Spokane have become endemic of the entirety of Gen Z women worldwide. He addresses them as a group, he falls in love with them as a group, he castigates and dismisses them as a group, and he entreats them with offers of food... as a group.
This was one of the very first things that stuck out to me as indicative of disorganization, or at least non-traditional organization, in the way Lucas thinks.
Lucas claims to have fallen in love with an entire generation, between fairly broad age categories, but he expects an individual to search him out, and interact with him as a singular person: The Wern.
Lucas gets ferociously angry when people don't behave the way he thinks they're supposed to. He has a great deal of discomfort with shades of gray.
Of course, none of this is applicable to himself, as he picks up and drops labels and associations without any internal convictions, simply to make life easier for himself.
But in Lucas's eyes, if you say you're a democrat, every aspect of your life must be a testament to the fact that the talking points of the party affect everything you do and say. It's very childish; and of course it demands an ideological hegemony that no one can live up to, least of all Lucas himself.
I think that this black and white thinking, this "target error" in which Lucas gets confused with subject and object, and with singular or plural romantic partners, and ends up making his romantic entreaties entirely socially aberrant, is hugely responsible for the core of his damaged thinking. Perhaps if one could begin to undo this uniquely bizarre error, it would be possible to counteract the generalizations which make up the bulk of Lucas's internal dialogue, seemingly.
I (and the Wernologist concensus) think that Lucas's disorganized thinking is so deeply ingrained at this point that there is no "fixing" him, and what we've observed from his stays in hospital seems to suggest that the medical community who has treated Lucas shares this apathetic attitude towards any real progress in his mental health.
As has been said, the de facto treatment when Lucas is hospitalized seems to be loading him up with drugs like thorazine, haloperidol, and strong downers... mental sedatives designed to quiet some of the waves of crazy anger that wash up against the shore of Lucas's dilapidated broken mindscape.
I found it interesting that before he disappeared, Lucas had made several videos in which he discussed how much he enjoyed anger. This was unexpected for me, because even though I'm aware of the seemingly pleasurable qualities of the manic cycle which often make being within it similar to a drug high for affected individuals, I thought that the professionals who had interacted with Lucas, and the legal system, had communicated to him succinctly enough that his anger was at the root of all of his problems, that that core concept had managed to stick in his head.
Apparently, it's been lost, or Lucas has changed his idea about the efficacy of his anger, because it seems to be the only motivating factor within him now. This all but guarantees that any future stays in hospital will repeat the pattern of keeping Lucas doped to the gills.
It's the best case scenario at this point, sadly enough.
