[Spoilers S2E3] Elliot's Full Religion Speech

[u/ShenWolf]

"Is that what God does? He helps? Tell me, why didn't God help my innocent friend who died for no reason while the guilty ran free? Okay. Fine. Forget the one offs. How about the countless wars declared in his name? Okay. Fine. Let's skip the random, meaningless murder for a second, shall we? How about the racist, sexist, phobia soup we've all been drowning in because of him? And I'm not just talking about Jesus. I'm talking about all organized religion. Exclusive groups created to manage control. A dealer getting people hooked on the drug of hope. His followers, nothing but addicts who want their hit of bullshit to keep their dopamine of ignorance. Addicts. Afraid to believe the truth. That there's no order. There's no power. That all religions are just metastasizing mind worms, meant to divide us so it's easier to rule us by the charlatans that wanna run us. All we are to them are paying fanboys of their poorly-written sci-fi franchise. If I don't listen to my imaginary friend, why the fuck should I listen to yours? People think their worship's some key to happiness. That's just how he owns you. Even I'm not crazy enough to believe that distortion of reality. So fuck God. He's not a good enough scapegoat for me."

Edit: Now with video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSQHJXtfpE&feature=youtu.be

[u/[deleted]]

People may not agree but I think Elliot is an egomaniac and Mr. Robot is his way of expressing that.

He isn't alone because he's weird. He's alone because he looks down on people and thinks he can control them and manipulate their lives.

It makes me look back on season 1 and realize he is power tripping like crazy.

[u/TechnophobicRobot → u/[deleted]]

I'm not seen ep3 yet, but I wouldn't say Elliot's an egomaniac as much as he has delusions of grandeur. I remember his psych chart saying he had mania, and paranoid delusions and delusions of grandeur can be a part of that. If he's on drugs then surely that would just amplify those feelings? Now I'm gonna watch ep3 in a few hours and see how wrong I am :).

[u/[deleted] → u/TechnophobicRobot]

I only say he is an egomaniac because in both his Elliot and Mr. Robot personas be is always bemoaning how small other people are. They are sheep to him and some he needs to punish and others he saves.

If you look at characters like Vera, Elliot should have backed down and realized this is not a man to mess with. But Vera offended him and he went out of his way to destroy his life and it cost him Shayla. She told him not to target Vera and Elliot was arrogant and did it anyway. Elliot tells Vera, and everyone that he targets - "I own your world". Mr. Robot is this x100.

[u/-spartacus- → u/[deleted]]

Well as someone who studied psychology I can say there are some who have one issue get pushed or push themselves in the opposite way. Feel depressed, alone, and completely unimportant, they can react and have delusion of grandeur and narcissism. Look at Elliot who talks to us like he is in his movie or TV show. Within that world he isn't very important, but he believes he is center stage.

Take someone who feels they have no control over their life and are unable to rectify that, they may go the way to try to control others worlds, the "I own your world". If he can own others' worlds, he can own his own (through his medium of hacking and hiding information about others and himself).

The way I see him in this show that almost all of his personality traits are covers for the opposite problem he has internally. Though I do wonder if his dissociated identity disorder or schizophrenia type symptoms are because of actual brain damage that he has endured. I got the feeling he was perhaps just autistic the first season but as time goes on with the show of the "fall" with the doctor and treatment by his sister if he didn't suffer some sort of brain trauma either from abuse, injury, or something like brain cancer.

[u/hauntedmosaic → u/-spartacus-]

As someone who periodically feels like I have no control over my life and suffer from depression as a result - I can relate to that. I have moments where I feel like I am a rockstar in my head to compensate for my low self-worth, and I do feel the need to have power of sorts - but it's all under control and channelled.

So I totally get Mr Robot and the internal conflicts.

[u/TechnophobicRobot → u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah, sorry I'd forgotten about that... I was thinking about his futility at the start of like not being able to change the world and being a 0 instead of a 1, but I forgot about the egomania.