I started to put this in the quotes section but decided it needs a blog entry instead. This is where Hocomania gets scary:

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hocus seems be heavily invested in the idea that he is the founder and leader of a tangible community. This "community" consists of posters to public forums where hocus is now banned. He is also invested in the idea that his future income is to be derived from selling information either to or based on this community.

The scary part is that he views the "Goons" and intercst in particular as suppressing his community and by extension his life goals. Of course, his view of his leadership of a community are not in alignment with those he considers to be in his community. They are just public forum posters, and few if any miss his being around and posting at their boards. Many are glad he's banned. hocus seems to be unable to accept this.

If hocus the man really believes this, and if I am correct that the rest of his "community" doesn't see things his way, then eventually he is going to realize he is not going to achieve his goals. And who will he blame? Obviously intercst and the "Goons".

I've tried on several occasions suggesting alternate ways of using his skills that not only may make money but have made money for him in the past. But he is dedicated to his view of this "community" and his plans to make money based on that. He's not a man that has a Plan B ready.

I don't know how much our knowledge of hocus reflects on the real Rob Bennett behind the hocus. Several people seem to think his wife has left him and took the kids. He seemed to indicate this in a post recently, but it's possible that may have just been sarcastically reflecting others' guesses about his home life. I'm not sure if Bennett resides at the address we seem to think he does, but that house is listed for sale at nearly twice the likely market value. If both things things are real issues for the real Rob Bennett then he seems to be going through some rough changes and sliding downhill.

The quoted post above shocked me a bit as he has been pleasant to converse with the past day or two. He let out some information that I don't think he normally lets out, like some mistakes he thinks he's made, and he responded apparently in earnest to some unsolicited suggestions from me on his blog not getting the readership he wants and his writing style.

It's possible hocus is just a trollish avatar for a bored man or that Bennet has income and/or financial reserves he hasn't mentioned on the forums. But if his situation is based on the facts, beliefs and attitudes he's posted previously I think there is are some scary possibilities for when Bennett's world continues to crash down around him.