Taxi Driver Movie A Study Of Masculinity & Existentialism

[Drareg]

I've no clue who created this analysis video for the movie taxi driver but he has an interesting perspective,it worth 10 minutes of your time.

Interestingly Travis is messed up psychologically from his time as a soldier in Vietnam,I think we have many males today with unmet capitalist expectations primed since childhood by TV programmes and culture going down a similar route to Travis.Mainly it's Sex for males the underlying drive in these cases.

Some will say you can't compare PTSD from Vietnam to PTSD from unmet capitalist expectations,I think you can and its a real phenomenon.
It's dynamic as we know when it comes to psychosis but similarities are there,its interesting to think about suicide bombers,members of isis or other extreme groups in a similar vein particularly in modern times,they have access to the Internet to look at the westernised countries behaviour on social media,in the movie Travis lives in NYC,no internet in those days but capital cities like NYC back then had the saying "everything is a phone call away" ,The big city was the Internet in those times.
Social rejection in many cases is about perspective,contemporary extremists use any tool they can to justify their pent up rage be it religion or in the movie what Travis perceives as the debauchery of NYC,extremists like Travis are walking contradictions,Travis as explored in the video frequents porn theatres while members of isis expect sex with virgins in the next life or dominate the world now and rape infidel females which is legal in their book or how they interpret said book,there also coming from the west in many cases so would have been looking at porn on the internet.

Doesn't have to be religion as the outlet for males,can be anything that allows for said rage to come through,the video explores this very well,the video claims it's because they are not intelligent enough to see their own drives,not sure I agree,it's a touch more complex in some cases.

 

[Regina]

I've no clue who created this analysis video for the movie taxi driver but he has an interesting perspective,it worth 10 minutes of your time.

Interestingly Travis is messed up psychologically from his time as a soldier in Vietnam,I think we have many males today with unmet capitalist expectations primed since childhood by TV programmes and culture going down a similar route to Travis.Mainly it's Sex for males the underlying drive in these cases.

Some will say you can't compare PTSD from Vietnam to PTSD from unmet capitalist expectations,I think you can and its a real phenomenon.
It's dynamic as we know when it comes to psychosis but similarities are there,its interesting to think about suicide bombers,members of isis or other extreme groups in a similar vein particularly in modern times,they have access to the Internet to look at the westernised countries behaviour on social media,in the movie Travis lives in NYC,no internet in those days but capital cities like NYC back then had the saying "everything is a phone call away" ,The big city was the Internet in those times.
Social rejection in many cases is about perspective,contemporary extremists use any tool they can to justify their pent up rage be it religion or in the movie what Travis perceives as the debauchery of NYC,extremists like Travis are walking contradictions,Travis as explored in the video frequents porn theatres while members of isis expect sex with virgins in the next life or dominate the world now and rape infidel females which is legal in their book or how they interpret said book,there also coming from the west in many cases so would have been looking at porn on the internet.

Doesn't have to be religion as the outlet for males,can be anything that allows for said rage to come through,the video explores this very well,the video claims it's because they are not intelligent enough to see their own drives,not sure I agree,it's a touch more complex in some cases.

Great movie!! I can't remember if Travis's mother is mentioned in the movie. Maternal neglect (or schizoid cognitive dissonance in the mother/son dynamic) can breed a narcissist.

 

[Insaneacinamide]

Have not seen this movie in a long time so I do not remember much, but I did watch the youtube video you posted.
I thought it was a good analysis, though it was missing some factors that were affecting Travis's psychology.

He even mentioned them in the video about Travis using alcohol and popping a lot of pills @ around the 3:05 mark in vid(what pills are those?). Though did not talk about how much it affected him.

He does not mention Travis has chronic insomnia. Or if any toxins he has been exposed to from the marines/Vietnam war. Perhaps agent orange, other types of chemical defoliant, or various drugs.
Taxi Driver - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver
Could be having issues like chronic stress, excess estrogen, low testosterone/thyroid, inflammation, various neurotransmitter issues(gaba, adrenaline, etc), and nutrient deficiencies. Could have other underlying health issues.

 

[Such_Saturation]

Redpillers in a nutshell

 

[Regina]

Have not seen this movie in a long time so I do not remember much, but I did watch the youtube video you posted.
I thought it was a good analysis, though it was missing some factors that were affecting Travis's psychology.

He even mentioned them in the video about Travis using alcohol and popping a lot of pills @ around the 3:05 mark in vid(what pills are those?). Though did not talk about how much it affected him.

He does not mention Travis has chronic insomnia. Or if any toxins he has been exposed to from the marines/Vietnam war. Perhaps agent orange, other types of chemical defoliant, or various drugs.
Taxi Driver - Wikipedia
Could be having issues like chronic stress, excess estrogen, low testosterone/thyroid, inflammation, various neurotransmitter issues(gaba, adrenaline, etc), and nutrient deficiencies. Could have other underlying health issues.

Yep. It's so important to take the myths and labels out of mental illness.
Even today wikipedia lists "false beliefs" as the first symptom in "schizophrenia."

 

[Drareg]

@Insaneacinamide @Regina

I agree,its difficult to pinpoint as no 2 cases are alike, it's probably like a threshold people cross with energy levels,incoherent energy let's say,no circumstance may arise in average joes life for the psychopathy to flourish.
However circumstances/socio economic status etc may not allow for this,culture,shaming,social rejection or even the individual projecting the rejection that isn't there at all! Rampant today.
Avoiding energy sapping situations or situations where rejection is possible is what most "normal" people do,this is a sign of somebody who is relatively well balanced,as balanced as can be in this system which isn't great to be fair, managing expectations and accepting current circumstances also a sign of managing energy imo.

The other aspect is having incoherent low energy since birth from stress in the womb on top of deranged parenting in early childhood.

I think the low energy type is becoming predominant in contemporary times based mainly on unmet expectations,there own toxic projections based on TV personas,the interent allows access to any "sink" for a torrent hate to flow into,this could be good until they start to act it out for real,simulacrum.
Add diet to this,porn and perceptions males have to women and idiosyncratic aspects of cultures.
Low energy locks them into perceptions/meanings or perceptions/meanings can lock them into low energy,the predominant to day is perceptions/meanings locking people into low energy imo.

 

[Drareg]

Redpillers in a nutshell

The reality is the red and the blue pill are one and the same based on our current understanding of reality,both are delusional,making their own meaning ,we want the one who is "relatively" peacefully deluded ,better still we need to recreate a new myth for everyone to subscribe too,everyone is burnt out from the current paradigms imo.

 

[Such_Saturation]

The reality is the red and the blue pill are one and the same based on our current understanding of reality,both are delusional,making their own meaning ,we want the one who is "relatively" peacefully deluded ,better still we need to recreate a new myth for everyone to subscribe too,everyone is burnt out from the current paradigms imo.

I'm just saying, if I'd gone to high school with a muslim and a white kid who was into guns and had anime posters on his wall, I would have been less nervous of being around the muslim kid

 

[Drareg]

I'm just saying, if I'd gone to high school with a muslim and a white kid who was into guns and had anime posters on his wall, I would have been less nervous of being around the muslim kid

You could have just checked out the parenting and add to broader culture your within to see who will snap first,contextuality=

 

[Such_Saturation]

You could have just checked out the parenting and add to broader culture your within to see who will snap first,contextuality=

Well I'm betting everyone gravitates toward that phenotype before taking drastic actions... unfortunately people are scared of the dead and always say they were "the nicest guy, I never would have imagined" so it's hard to tell.

 

[Regina]

But he was awfully cute back then. (just sayin')

 

[sladerunner69]

Redpillers in a nutshell

Or perhaps Travis is simply reacting to the degeneration of society? You know, the obvious interpretatiom of the movie?

 

[Such_Saturation]

Or perhaps Travis is simply reacting to the degeneration of society? You know, the obvious interpretatiom of the movie?

Yeah he took the redpill man

 

[Regina]

Or perhaps Travis is simply reacting to the degeneration of society? You know, the obvious interpretatiom of the movie?

He's living in his pituitary.

 

[pimpnamedraypeat]

Strange movie for strange people

Barely remember a thing about it. Lots of narcissistic, delusional monologuing.

I was more intrigued by the pretentious fandom than I was with the actual movie. How does something so dull and lifeless become a cult classic. Maybe it takes a dull and lifeless audience. I guess it speaks to the disenfranchisement of the American male

 

[sladerunner69]

He's living in his pituitary.

I don't think I understand?

 

[sladerunner69]

Strange movie for strange people

Barely remember a thing about it. Lots of narcissistic, delusional monologuing.

I was more intrigued by the pretentious fandom than I was with the actual movie. How does something so dull and lifeless become a cult classic. Maybe it takes a dull and lifeless audience. I guess it speaks to the disenfranchisement of the American male

Eh there are certainly duller movies that have attained cult status... At least taxi driver has tension and action even if it is pretensious and silly

 

[Regina]

I don't think I understand?

Travis has high ACTH, prolactin, oxcytocin, TSH, growth hormone, FSH, LH and serotonin up the yin-yang??
Endorphins, adrenaline, histamine, cortisol, endotoxins, lactate and ammonia too.

 

[sladerunner69]

Travis has high ACTH, prolactin, oxcytocin, TSH, growth hormone, FSH, LH and serotonin up the yin-yang??
Endorphins, adrenaline, histamine, cortisol, endotoxins, lactate and ammonia too.

Oh lolz for some reason I thought you were describing @Such_Saturation...

Yeah travis is definitely a good candidate for supplemental thyroid and glucose to say the least...

Though I never considerred LH to be a stress hormone and I never read Dr. Peat discuss that or oxcytocin, endorphins or growth hormone. Milk has a substantial amount of growth hormone in it if im not mistaken...

 

[Such_Saturation]

All glands working nominally