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There has to be an explanation why Armstrong has so many delusional thoughts, all the disorganized writing, constantly brags, the scamming of investors, and is simply outright lying about a lot of things. Maybe he really thinks he gets these fanmails; but in reality it's just another persona of him. Also the complete shamelessness about not making any excuses whatsoever about wrong predictions is very weird.
Interesting question, like asking why can a person with so many behavioral defects exist?
I would expand this question with:
And why can such a person have any followers who are not ashamed to be seen on one of his conferences?
Let me try to construct a logical response. It is an attempt. Using supply and demand as drivers.
There is a demand from lazy people with low IQ and bad memory retention to get easy answers to most of their questions. They want to have their questions answered without own research, by someone, ideally a single source, as to not to get too confused. There is no doubt that there is a high number of these people.
Martin Armstrong has a demand for a lot of money, but he can no longer tap into the rich resources of large investors after he has been convicted of defrauding them.
So he constructs a system which taps into a large number of these low IQ people so he gets his reward from large quantity times small amount equals large amount which he is demanding.
He uses the same skills as before like showboating such as pretending that he has the capacity to advise large clients , and pretending he has a knowledge of Physics, History, ... you name it, as to instill confidence in his new low IQ clients. In a way he has to demonstrate somehow that he is an expert in all those fields that would be too many and too much to handle for the low IQ people.
Then he develops Socrates. This is a machine that generates money via subscription by providing answers to questions. These answers are by nature ambiguous, otherwise they could be proven false even by low IQ people too easily.
The low IQ people look at the answers one at the time, not too many per time unit, because they have to pay for them. If the answer is wrong, they ask for support. Support tells them they looked at the wrong answer, and the low IQ person is embarrassed, not telling other low IQ people about their own mistake.
The other low IQ person who happened to look at the right answer thinks that Marin Armstrong is a hero and brags about it loud, which attracts more low IQ people to subscribe and find easy answers.
Any behavioral defect fits nicely into the scheme explained above, with the single purpose of keeping this scheme going. It is not rooted in a clinical condition. It is driven by demand and supply.
Martin Armstrong is a charlatan, and he spent 11 years in jail for that reason but he has not changed.
Read this blog
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See
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Every single defrauded person should report their case, see
Where and how to complain