Louis Theroux: The Call of the Weird

Originally, I thought this was Louis revisiting his subjects from the Weird Weekends series, but it actually follows his other docs more so.

It's a very interesting read when you think back to people he's met who've claimed to of killed aliens, uprooted to the mountains and declared independence from the US and a get-rich-quick schemer who gave seminars. Whatever you thought of them at the time, I always wondered how people like this actually lived their lives, and reading this I found out. Most people featured have given up their beliefs altogether, served prison time, changed identities or in case of the schemer, been involved heavily in litigation from disgruntled clients :lol:

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I don't read The Sun and I'm certainly not right-wing but I'm sure you can appreciate my wish to pay my respects to a deceased old woman that did a lot for our country.

I have received iobseeker's allowance for a maximum of two months ever since I was 18. If I can find work regularly then why do others struggle? I'm not choosy about where I'll work if it's an absolute necessity. I'm sick to death of hearing about those with such insane degrees of self-entitlement. I read a story in the paper a few months back about some guy with a heart defect that refused a transplant because he didn't want to go back to work in the event of recovery and would prefer to laze about on benefits. What kind of person would choose a lazy lifestyle which would result in death over being healthy and living? This is the kind of world we live in nowadays. It's madness.

Well whatever Newspapers you read aren't much better than the Sun (not that I like any newspaper very much, of course). Do you know why you read stories like the one you described, in newspapers? It's not because people like that man with the heart defect are in any way a majority or even a large proportion of people recieving benefits. people like that man are actually a vast minority of what people receiving benefits are like. The reason why you are always reading such stories is because the people with power (politicians, people who run the media, ect, ect) what to hold onto that power, and so they want to divert attention away from all the tax payers money they are stealing, and instead get people like you raging at people on benefits, and turn the working class (the powerless) against one another while the people at the top with power get away with the worst of crimes. Stop being so easily manipulated.