Oh sure. Let's try a 10 000 perspective on Eric. I watched all of his videos when this whole thing started for two reasons: 1) I couldn't tell if the flat earth things was serious or if it was a practical joke. The suspicion is that the whole thing was started as a practical joke online and it got out of hand. Even though the flat earth society existed in some for for 100s of years, this new iteration really is it's own thing. It was fun until it started to get repetitive and until real honest Joes showed up that believe and try to do work to debunk stuff. 2) The second reason I watched his videos was that Eric showed up on the scene and he has this really bizarre world view that on the surface of it seems coherent but when you start to poke around the details it falls apart very easily. His videos always have two qualities: a) Superficially consistent world views that are juuuuuust a little too polished in a way that an ordinary mind could not pull together. b) Suspiciously high linguistic capability that doesn't match the demeanor of his body language. So, that is why I watched his videos at first. Here is my take on Eric: * Eric doesn't know shit from sheinola. Eric literally knows nothing about any topic he is talking about. Not only does he not know anything about the mysteries that he is describing, any of the claims that he makes are can be easily debunked with barely a google. I would have bring up some videos and go through specifics, but I'm not sure that it is useful or even interesting. I looked but I cannot find the Joe Rogan video that explains this in a more general way. A guest asks him what he thinks of conspiracy theories and he says that doing his conspiracy show on HBO (or whatever network it was) cured him. Joe described his experience as something like this: after you talk to 200 conspiracy theorists you notice a pattern. The pattern is they are all white men that are losers that cannot get laid. As such, they are all looking for meaning in hunting for bigfoot and nonsense like that. Then he made a joke that you will never find any black men in the group. Which is true. There are no chinese or indian men in the group either. This is exclusively a white man domain. The point that I am making is that if you research enough conspiracies and you talk to / read about / interact with enough of these guys, you eventually figure out that NONE of them have a fucking clue what they are talking about. Zacharia Sitchin ... not a clue. Erich von Daniken ... not a clue. It is trivial to go through each of their books and any of these guys claims and provide completely plausible alternative explanations. Eric is not even close to Zacharia or Erich. Zacharia and Erich actually visited locations and sites and did research BEFORE the internet existed. Eric is just reading bullshit online and watching videos. * Erics stories are suspiciously complete ... in an incomplete way. This one is hard to describe. If you have ever been involved in creative writing, sci-fi, comics ... anything that involves story telling, you will know the tropes, techniques and marks of high quality work. You will also be able to tell when something is low quality the way a mechanic can tell you what is a high quality car vs a low quality car. It takes years of expeirence but once you know you can point to it. Erics stories are NEITHER good nor bad. They are somehow complete in a way that don't use tropes or techniques that good story writers use to tell stories. Instead, they are suspiciously complete as if, either he is thinking about these things at an obsessive compulsive level (clue!) or he has something like schizophrenia that has him build complete worlds / stories in his head that internally self consistent and informed by the things that he reads online. I knew one person kind of like this. He made his money washing windows for stores in town, had unbelievably high verbal skills but lived in a hovel in a kind of hip part of town that had run down hotels. I was friendly with this person, visited his flat which was in this shithole hotel and chatted with him. He was obsessed with far eastern meditation and related philosophies and had this unbelivably elaborate set of conspiracies about how groups that had certain spiritual connections were taking over the world and the world was going to end soon. Of course, he knew all of this because he was part of the group but got kicked out. And he was telling me this to spare me because he liked me or something. I was too young back then to understand what this guy was talking about. I didn't believe it but I didn't NOT believe it either. Only when I was around enough mentally ill people did I start to notice how often these people have intricately constructed worldwide conspiracy stories. This is how Erics stories read to me. They aren't well constructed or poorly constructed scifi novels or comic books. He has some kind of mental illness that is forcing him to construct these elaborate world views that don't use any of the techniques a normal write would to tell a story. * Erics body language has a disconnect from his words. I noticed from the very first video that I watched. The words that come out of his mouth somehow oddly don't match his body language. This is the one example for which I cannot point to videos or links as a reference. Most people thought Matt Gaetz did a shit job on the recent Tucker interview, however, if you watch Robert Barnes commentary on his performance he also noted that Matt acted like a person that was telling the truth and his body language matched the language that he used to describe the situation. The only reference I can provide for you is If you have ever met high functioning mentally ill people, you will notice that when they are talking your brain is saying to you internally "there is something wrong here, i don't know what it is but it looks like it might be dangerous". This is your brain noticing that the body language doesn't match the words. This is Eric in my view. The body language is way too calm, way too settled and way too self assured when he talks about topics he clearly knows nothing about except what he read online or in books. That is just a bit about why I think Eric is mentally ill.