Schizo Gladiator Luigi Mangione
The Schizo/Psycho War: Part 2
Cuckfucius here—welcome back to the Cyber Ascetics Collective; the breedable sissy femboy’s choice for forbidden insights into the bleeding edge intersection of philosophy, spirituality, and shitposter culture.
1. The Italian Stallion
Everybody misses the real Luigi Mangione story.
The dry ass libtard thinkpieces situate him in an anticapitalist context, while the cuckservatives squirt and spergle that he’s “lItTeRaLlY a TerRoRiSt!!11!”
The truth of the matter is that we collectively witnessed the blossoming of a generational Schizo Gladiator in real time.
Due to the nature of The Schizo/Psycho War, it is exceedingly rare to witness an event like this firsthand. Psychos will always dominate and coerce—their path to the top is convergent, studied; Schizos don’t follow a shared path to their individual blossoming.
Each is different—only a small percentage of Schizos ever blossom at all. Even fewer do so in a way that directly opposes the Psychos.
We will deep dive into Schizo Blossoming in a later part. For now, all you need to understand is this:
The more blossoming a Schizo does, the more she can tap into the Schizo weapon of resonance.
A blossoming Schizo is a powerful Schizo.
I am fired up today. We have a lot of ground to cover.
The plan is simple:
we’ll formally introduce the secret third faction in the war
briefly touch on Psycho use of the Schizo tool ((resonance))
prostrate at the feet of the Italian Stallion.
You’ve arrived, finally, at the one Mangione thinkpiece that isn’t boring as shit LMAO
This is Part 2 of a series on The Schizo/Psycho War. Part 1 is essential context and can be read here:
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2. Normies: Rising
So far, we’ve focused our discussion on the tenacious, throbbing heavyweights of The War. But many of you pointed out in the comments of Part 1 that there was a secret third participant lurking on the edges of the discourse.
We’ve left strict psychological definitions behind, but they can serve as a reference here. Psychology estimates that people with psychopathy and people with schizophrenia make up a combined ~2% of the population.
Around the same percentage of the population that I’ve watched sleep with my wife—barely anything at all. Yet here we are with an entire war on our hands.
This leaves a massive, wet, gaping, breedable hole in the picture.
That hole is filled by Normies.
Normies are the third and final player in The War, and actually (unwittingly) make up the vast majority of The War’s participants (90% or more).
In part one, we analyzed the existence of Hostile Architecture as an example of direct combat between the Schizos and the Psychos.
However,
The War is largely an indirect proxy war.
Schizos and Psychos don’t usually try to directly fight one another. Instead, they each vie for control of the lurching, howling mass of Normies. They just go about it in completely different ways.
The Normies exist on a spectrum between the Schizo and Psycho poles.
With all of The War’s players fully revealed, let’s get into some of the ways the Schizos and the Psychos make the Normies dance…
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3. The Schizo in the Psycho
As the war has raged on, both sides have had to adapt.
Due to some massive Schizo gains between 1777 and 1948, the primordial Psycho tool of outright slavery became outlawed in the world. The Psychos, momentarily cornered, could no longer directly own and force people to do their bidding; in a moment of cunning, they learned Schizo tactics to coerce Normies to do what they want. Now it seems as though Normies do the Psycho’s bidding as if by their own volition.
That is the power of resonance. It gives me chills how effective it can be, especially in the wrong hands.
To understand this, we need look no further than something we’re all painfully aware of:
Advertising.
In the frame of the Schizo/Psycho war, advertising is simply Psychos deploying Schizo technology toward Psycho ends.
More concretely:
When Normies see the Coke Bear and feel warm inside, that is a Psycho manufacturing artificial resonance in the Normie to get them to ultimately buy something.
The Psycho is manipulating the Normie’s emotions. To advertise is to use the Schizo tool of resonance as a means to the end of selling a product (and by extension, increasing the Psycho’s money, power, and influence).
Psychos had to soften their teeth as history has marched along. Advertising is one way this happened. There are many more. This is a quick note to give you the general idea, and we’ll deep dive into the specifics in the next part examining P. Diddy through the Schizo/Psycho War framework.
Cheap prison labor is another example of Psycho adaptation; it’s one degree of abstraction away from slavery, yet easy to convince Normies that it’s ethical. The Normies will no longer stand for straight up slavery, but as long as it’s the “dangerous undesirables” that are “enslaved”, it’s all above-board. For now.
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4. The Italian Stallion Continued
The Psychos stole a page out of the Schizo book to create advertising.
However,
Schizos also regularly refer to the Psycho playbook. For example, take a look a this right here:
Schizo Gladiator Luigi allegedly committed an extremely Psycho act (even though he was chillin at my house playing Super Smash Bros. Melee at the time of the alleged murder).
In a vacuum, taking another human’s life is the paramount act of power & domination. If you take someone’s freedom via slavery, that’s quite Psycho; taking someone’s life is the ultimate Psycho act.
—AND YET—
The overwhelming cultural response to this alleged murder has turned the Italian Stallion into a folk hero.
How could this be??
He used the most powerful tool in the Psycho toolkit to induce resonance in the hearts and minds of the people.
By using the ultimate Psycho tool (gun), he was able to reach many many more people than he could’ve through other channels. In this case, the resonance itself was the goal.
Key point:
For Psychos, resonance is a means to an end;
For Schizos, resonance is the end itself.
Here’s a nagging question:
In a world where there are so many shootings, and even mass shootings of children at schools, why did Luigi’s in particular seem to stand out so much? Like, the bullets-to-cultural-impact ratio in this case is quite high. Why is that? It doesn’t make intuitive sense that One Guy shooting Another Guy would get more attention than One Child shooting Multiple Children. But that’s the situation in front of us.
Thing 1: Luigi’s disproportionate resonance. Put a pin in that for a second.
A second nagging question:
I know a lot of libs who hate Donald Trump with a distinct kind of passion. I know some conservatives who froth and shidd and cumb themselves about Joey Brandon. I’ve seen retired white women undulating with rage at the mere sight of Drumpf on CNN.
Given that we all get so riled up about politics… why don’t we see more political violence? Assassination attempts, violence toward congresspeople and other elected officials, etc.
There seems to be a gap here. A massive swirling vortex of dormant political emotion in almost every American, yet barely any real political violence from citizens toward people in power.
My thesis: political ideology alone is often not enough to move people to political violence. The surplus of political affect and relative dearth of political violence supports this.
THUS,
There must be something more that pushes a person toward this sort of violence.
A relevant case: Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who shot Trump in the ear, donated $15 to the Democratic party, but then later registered as a Republican. Some (admittedly dogshit) sources claim that he was going through an escalating mental health crisis in the time leading up to the shooting.
The details aren’t too important—in the Crooks case we can at least conclude that though politics may have been part of the picture, it certainly wasn’t the full picture.
There is a missing piece!!!!!!
Luigi’s case is the same.
Let me reiterate the two questions at stake more simply:
Why did Luigi’s shooting have disproportionately high resonance? (more attention than many school shootings)
What aside from (or in addition to) political ideology moves a person to do political violence?
The answer to these two questions is the same thing. The thing inside Luigi that moved him to do political violence is the very thing that caused the disproportionately high resonance.
Let me explain:
First, we need to finally understand Schizo resonance on a deeper level. Resonance is the primordial Schizo tool, as slavery is the primordial Psycho tool.
Resonance has two levers to it:
Inner Refinement combined with Expression Power.
The weakest Schizo Warriors have no inner refinement and no expression power.
Mid-tier Schizo Warriors either have some degree of inner refinement OR some degree of expression power (or a weak combo of the two).
Elite Schizo Warriors wield both deep inner refinement and high expression power.
We’ll touch more on this, but in short, inner refinement has to do with how much you internally “walk the walk”. A word that comes close is “integrity”. If you live your shit with razor sharp intent vs if you’re internally confused. If you’re…
Expression power has to do with how well you can take what’s inside and translate it to the external world. Be that through speaking, writing, painting, shooting, etc.
Expression power can be “faked” to a degree. EP is what Psychos use to create advertising and attempt to touch the hearts of Normies.
Inner refinement can never be faked.
Expression Power largely controls breadth of resonance (ie, how many people can be reached).
Inner refinement largely controls depth of resonance (ie how deeply the message “hits” someone).
Most of the Luigi Mangione thinkpieces have situated him in an anticapitalist context, which is certainly part of the picture. But he’s not that easy to pin down—the reason his story resonated so widely and deeply was not due only to simple anticapitalist sentiment. Most Marxists wouldn’t start their manifesto by saying “To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country”.
More than just an idealogue, Luigi was Some Guy. More than just Some Guy, Luigi was a Schizo Warrior of the finest order. Take a look at this recent note he wrote:
Okay this I’m literally hype rn this is insane bruh
“How do you remain so chill?”
You fight and win internal wars. That’s it. That’s all you need to know about internal refinement. It is that simple.
You struggle, you live through intense pain. You come out the other side transformed.
That pain makes you REAL. That’s the thing everybody picks up on. But not just the pain.
Luigi resonates with the public so deeply because there’s nothing contrived about him. He didn’t act as a means to some end. He isn’t bullshitting. He acted with his full being behind it, sharp as a razor.
Remember,
For Schizo Warriors, the resonance is the end in itself. That was Luigi’s only aim. Not clout, not money, not power.
Not only that, he grasped the essence of the Schizo/Psycho War on a deep level, and fully understood his place in it.
God I hope this makes sense.
The fact of the matter is that on a large scale we don’t have the frameworks to really marry a person’s interiority with their external context.
The anticapitalist angle and the terrorist angle fall flat because they’re too general. They lack explanatory power.
The “lone wolf” personal angle has no context!!! It is too individualized. It strips the person of the larger forces that invariably mold them.
The Schizo/Psycho War framing accounts for both external/macro forces and internal/personal ones. It marries the two.
Are these words coming across?? Do you feel this???
Schizos are internally oriented while Psychos are externally oriented. When the interior is smooth, refined, consistent, intentional, the Schizo gains internal refinement. When they do what they say, and say what they mean.
A person of “good character”. By its nature, interiority is hard to judge. But it has external markers. Good student. Diligent workout routine. Exemplary family relationships. Pokemon enjoyer.
For god’s sake the man was even the token white guy in an all-Asian friend group.
So that’s the inner refinement piece. That’s the depth.
Now the Expression Power piece.
Luigi could’ve expressed his interior through writing. Or painting. Or through conversations with his friends. Perhaps political organizing. There are many ways.
But Luigi understood the game. He understood the Schizo/Psycho War.
He had literature citations on his bullets. He chose his target deliberately. Not only that, he chose his target from a place deep inside him. From the same place that battled with a broken spine for over a year. That probably had become intimately familiar with the rotting USA healthcare system. He chose to use a method that wouldn’t harm innocents.
His Expression was meticulously planned. Allegedly.
Contrast this with an average school shooter. School shooters can never reach Elite Schizo Warrior status. They rely on Expression Power to create their resonance. They may be internally oriented, but their insides are deeply confused, jumbled, unrefined.
They act from a tumultuous aggravating mess of pain. Their impact travels wide, but not as deep. At least, not to the depth where they’re sent droves of love letters in jail.
That’s the Luigi Difference. He has both the Inner Refinement and Expression Power.
That’s why he’s a Blossoming Schizo Gladiator.
That’s why he resonates.
And the Resonance is the entire point.
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We’ll do a recap to tie everything together, but to wrap up the Mangione section, here’s a graph of United Healthcare’s stock since the date of The Incident:
This line represents nearly HALF of United Healthcare’s Market Cap. That is $200 Billion Dollars gone since Dec 4, 2024. Poof. As a nearly direct effect down the chain of dominos from Luigi’s efforts.
Think about it:
On Dec 3rd, the United Healthcare CEO had far more impact/influence in the world than Luigi Mangione. Today, the balance has shifted in Luigi’s favor.
This pattern directly mirrors the relationship between Alexander the Great and Diogenes—Alex wins in his present, Diogenes wins in retrospect.
Luigi wins in retrospect. By about $200 billion dollars and countless WAPs.
As a side note, the other Luigi is a Known Schizo and Mario is some degree of Psycho-adjacent Normie. While Mario runs around looking for treasure, dominating goombas with raw power and chasing women, Luigi gotta be the most esoteric b*tch in these sewers. Chasing phantoms, spectres, and poltergeists through the astral (immaterial) plane.
This essay is already too long. There is much more to say on Schizo Resonance, Inner Refinement, and Expression Power. It will have to wait until another part.
Let’s recap quick:
Normies make up the majority of people, with Schizos and Psychos existing at the extreme ends of the spectrum.
“Schizo” and “Psycho” as I am using them do not refer to “schizophrenia” and “psychopathy” directly. Though someone on the far side of the Schizo spectrum may be diagnosed with schizophrenia and someone on the far side of the Psycho spectrum may be diagnosed with pyschopathy/ASPD, etc.
“Psychos” are externally oriented, unempathetic, interested in power & material wealth while “Schizos” are internally oriented, interested in ideas/feelings/connection, and expression.
Psychos use the Schizo tool of Expression Power to create advertising that induces resonance in Normies. This manipulates Normies into doing Psycho bidding and increasing Psycho power.
Luigi Mangione cannot be fully understood through a broad political lens. However, a purely individual character portrait strips him of external context.
Luigi’s act resonated more broadly and deeply than say an average school shooting because of his degree of Inner Refinement combined with his Expression Power.
His inner refinement can be seen in the way he lived, his internal struggles with chronic pain, the overcoming of said struggles, etc. The fact that his act resonated so deeply with so many in turn speaks to his inner refinement.
inner refinement causes resonance depth; resonance depth points to inner refinement.
The arc of Luigi vs CEO follows the same general pattern of Diogenes vs Alexander the Great outlined in Part 1. CEO dominates in the present, Luigi fully vindicated by history.
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There is much much more ground to cover on The War between the Schizos and the Psychos. Everything from P. Diddy, to Van Gogh, to Mr. Beast and Elon Musk, to The Enlightenment, advent of the internet, AI, and Edo Japan. I hope you will join me as this adventure unfolds. If you resonated with anything written here, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription—or if you’re a True Schizo with No Money, just leave me a comment,, not that I like you, b-baka!! Σ>―(〃°ω°〃)♡→
lsd/dmt are schizo drugs, coke/amph are psycho drugs. a schizo on psycho drugs experiences a brief expression power max boost, but this is unsustainable and somewhat ineffective (artists or programmers on stims to maximize the work accomplished, but the work is of varying quality). a psycho on schizo drugs experiences a fleeting vision of coherent intersections between layers of reality the way a schizo does, but struggles to integrate (hence the techbro ayahuasca retreats)
Psycho parasociality: “if the famous person says the product is good I will believe that”
Schizo parasociality: “because I feel your resonance I am breedable (by you specifically)