I have mixed feelings about him, as I'm sure others on here do. I lament the loss of the optimistic boy seen in 'Song of Christian' when he was 18, or the confident 'wise' Christian seen in his 2008 'important message' video. His interactions online, both with trolls and enablers, would have a profound effect on him effectively making him a husk of his former self.
On one hand, we have the obvious incest thing and his general laziness and selfishness. Also, as many have said before, he could have disengaged with the trolls and dramatically reduced their ability to cause him harm.
However, I believe he never had a chance to handle his challenges gracefully. While I dislike the autism card as an excuse, I do believe his autism and complete ineptitude when it comes to social interaction did leave him with no other choice in his mind than direct confrontation when dealing with trolls. He would eventually learn, but it took a long time, and he was still able to be duped. One example of his progress is when his 'niece' tried to contact 'uncle Chris' but he was very skeptical and made it clear that he wouldn't say much until she confirmed the gift that he had given her, something no troll could know. Indeed, she was never able to satisfy this.
When considering he was already lacking confidence and 99% of every interaction he had with other human beings were extremely negative, often trust-betraying, its no wonder he retreated into the comforts of his little room. There, he spiraled into his own strangeness irreversibly. Endlessly indulging various fixations to the point that he lost all touch with reality. First it was his imaginary world being real, then the dimensional merge, then his healing stones and magic, then he was actually literally the Messiah.
I wonder what would have happened to Chris had he not had access to the internet at home, what if he was meant to go outside more. I don't see him doing a lot of the things he ended up doing, including his mom. The one person who still accepted him, would of course be the natural object of his affection.
"He covets. That is his nature. And how do we begin to covet? Do we seek out things to covet? No. We begin by coveting what we see every day." -Silence of the Lambs
On one hand, we have the obvious incest thing and his general laziness and selfishness. Also, as many have said before, he could have disengaged with the trolls and dramatically reduced their ability to cause him harm.
However, I believe he never had a chance to handle his challenges gracefully. While I dislike the autism card as an excuse, I do believe his autism and complete ineptitude when it comes to social interaction did leave him with no other choice in his mind than direct confrontation when dealing with trolls. He would eventually learn, but it took a long time, and he was still able to be duped. One example of his progress is when his 'niece' tried to contact 'uncle Chris' but he was very skeptical and made it clear that he wouldn't say much until she confirmed the gift that he had given her, something no troll could know. Indeed, she was never able to satisfy this.
When considering he was already lacking confidence and 99% of every interaction he had with other human beings were extremely negative, often trust-betraying, its no wonder he retreated into the comforts of his little room. There, he spiraled into his own strangeness irreversibly. Endlessly indulging various fixations to the point that he lost all touch with reality. First it was his imaginary world being real, then the dimensional merge, then his healing stones and magic, then he was actually literally the Messiah.
I wonder what would have happened to Chris had he not had access to the internet at home, what if he was meant to go outside more. I don't see him doing a lot of the things he ended up doing, including his mom. The one person who still accepted him, would of course be the natural object of his affection.
"He covets. That is his nature. And how do we begin to covet? Do we seek out things to covet? No. We begin by coveting what we see every day." -Silence of the Lambs
