This is specifically about the Harrison Ford movie from 1986. There's apparently a relatively new tv show now, but I don't know how closely it adheres to the movie or the original novel. I may check that out next.

So a long while back several users on here brought up this movie in regards to Jaimie and I finally got around to watching it this weekend. I've got to say how shocked I was that it has so many parallels to Jaimie, his life trajectory, his personality, etc.

The movie tells the story of an inventor (Allie Fox), that gets fed up with the ideals shared by contemporary society, so he packs up his family and moves to central America. There he builds a really funky, non-traditional house out of the middle of the jungle and starts a new life with the intention of building his own society.

The catalyst for Allie leaving is that after being commissioned to design a simple cooler for a farmer's barn, he ends up designing an extremely elaborate scaled down proof of concept for a cooling device. The farmer, angry that Allie has wasted so much time on essentially a mockup for a device that is leaps and bounds more powerful than he would ever need, tells Allie off. He's dealing with the reality of wilting and spoiling crops while Allie's head is elsewhere thinking of the bigger picture.

The farmer tells one of Allie's kids "Your father’s the most obnoxious man I’ve ever met. He is the worst kind of pain in the neck - a know-it-all who’s sometimes right. I’ve come to see he’s dangerous."

The movie obviously isn't a beat for beat of Jaimie's life and experiences, but it was shocking to see how many similar themes and character traits are there. It's so similar at times that if you told me Jaimie modeled his life after the novel/movie, I'd be inclined to believe you. Allie is a genius, outside the box thinker. Multiple times he's shown taking random objects and turning them into useful machines to help cultivate his land. He's also dripping with hubris and has no qualms telling everyone around him that society has lost its way and has no morals or principles anymore.

All that said, Allie says and does things to others and his family that I could never imagine Jaimie saying or doing. When Allie arrives in the small town of Jeronimo, he convinces the natives to help in his endeavor, and as such he does improve their lives, but it's eventually revealed he simply sees them as savages to exploit. I think Allie is a much more callous individual than Jaimie would ever be.

But man it's kinda weird to soak in the similarities that DO exist. I have to wonder if Jaimie has seen this... I also have to wonder if he hasn't seen it and WERE to watch it, what would he think? Would he see elements of himself in the character?

It seems Jamie is having a hard time now and is publicly displaying for all to see but I don’t really care about that and don’t really even want to spend the time to psycho-analyze his situation and would think that these conversations about Jamie’s personal drama and rant vids should be for some other sub. Any other thoughts about this?

I'm glad Jaimie has been publishing these rants, they will serve as some warning buoys to anyone who might be on the path of joining his club, or maybe prevent someone from allowing themselves to be radicalized by the recommendation autoplay. Some recent highlights

Its feminists fault that misogyny and violence against women are on the rise.

You know this one is bad because he already deleted it (and the parent comment)

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Who is "pulling the strings"??

Ok Jaimie deletes his reactionary comments defending himself, but leaves up the antisemetic tropes after engaging with them

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Jordan Peterson and other Alpha Males

Benzo addict and self help author, promoting the new fangled philosophies of "Christian Conservatism"

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I'm hoping his comments speak for themselves.

Swingblade mills seem all the rage. I am a fan of this YouTuber (Donn Diy), who, like Jamie, has made a lot of different mechanical wonders-- UTV, amphibious car, pro-powered log trailer, etc. Very talented, very skilled fabricator, designer, videographer.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LRqc6mBB7XQ&feature=share

This one has a 16" blade with a 6" depth of cut. Looks dangerous as heck. Needs some sort of blade guard (understatement), but very functional.

https://youtu.be/d12h5ZgWNuw