To me, Jon's use of the tugboat is just the tip of the iceberg. Given that he seems to be incredibly inept at even basic survival and logical challenges, he may be too mentally challenged to live without it, but that's a big maybe. Somebody who can't solve the problem of exiting/getting home from a hospital for eight hours may genuinely need assistance. Regardless, whether he's lambasting people on welfare while truly requiring it to survive, or because he's too lazy to work, he's being an incredible hypocrite.
What's worse, however, is that Jon is a
beggar (edit: Actually, more of a 'demander'. Beggars ask and say "please" on occasion). His big plans for revenge/rebuilding his life rely heavily on others doing things for him. They need to buy a ton of his books, harass the faculty at ASU in order to get him magically reinstalled there, harass "Ashleigh"'s father into talking to him. His ridiculous personal drawbacks when it comes to basic functionality in society and with user-friendly machinery is to whine that "Nobody told me!" how to use it, as if he were owed an explanation. When the most logical route to learning new information would be to look it up on the internet, he instead bombards another forum member with questions. Like I said above, his mother's shop was supposed to be
his "second chance". Sweet is one of those guys who always has his hand out.
And what is it that society's charity will be paying for? What good will Jon do with the cash and support that we send his way?
from 'Fekul the Baby' said:
Something needs to change. And since he won't do the decent thing and just die, I have no choice but to move out of the house. I need to run back to AS(S)U and just hide there until he finally screws up enough to get locked away for good. Then and only then can I truly be safe, happy, and free.That is where you guys come in. Visit my site. Buy more books, buy some comics, spend, spend, spend. I will save up every penny towards finally living my dream. I will move into a dorm, or maybe an off-campus apartment, which will allow me full access to the AS(S)U perks package. I will have the life I want. I will be free.
(emphasis added)
Gimme gimme gimme. Me me me. Not just for survival or moving forward with education or training, no. Jon wants the perks package. He wants the good life. He'll save up every penny towards living
his dream, free of having to pay any taxes, so screw the social safety net. Of course, living off-campus (cuz there's no way in hell he'd be allowed in a dorm) would be expensive, and would require more than a one-time payment, so when he asks you to "spend, spend, spend" on is crappy work, you best be ready to subsidize The Iconoclast for quite some time.
Oh, but look at me, Mr. Pessimist. Turns out Jon's going to get a job and give back to the community:
Ibid. said:
My critics insist I will be nothing but a leech bumming around the campus, doing nothing, contributing nothing. Untrue. I plan to take a few courses and get a job working in the school library, or perhaps the bookstore, to earn enough money to finally move on. However, my real mission there will be as a conservative community organizer. I plan in the coming weeks to outline my four-point plan for what I have dubbed "Indian Outreach". I've grown tired of AS(S)U's appalling history of hypocrisy, selfishness, sneering elitism, and all-round shabby treatment of former alumni. Under my plan I hope to see my old alma mater improve public relations and better help the communities it serves. I want to help people. I had no one in my corner when I was starting out. I made a lot of horrible, life-rending mistakes. I plan to be there for those kids and help them through, so they never have to watch their lives crumble in their hands or look back years later with regret. I will work to be a force for good.
(emphasis added)
There, see? A man who has had no measurable amount of success in the entire span of his adult life is going to tell others how to live theirs. He's going to be a community organizer. Just like President Obama was.
But wait - certainly Jon's going to repay the world it's kindness with more than his well-intentioned, incredibly self-centered dreams? There has to be something solid, something real, something concrete he'd do with the money he's sent?
Ibid. said:
So I've decided to spend the bit of money I saved up all this time to cover my tuition on a little something that will allow me--if not in person, than in name, to live forever at ASU.
I have a chance to buy a commemorative brick that will be laid in a path near one of the campus buildings. I have already written my inscription and submitted it to the committee, and it has been approved. I'm hoping my loyal fans will help cover the $165 cost of this little piece of immortality by buying books and comics from my webstore. And I sincerely hope it is in set in a place where Thrasher has to walk by and look at it every day on her way to work, and every morning she will see my hated name, and that it burns in her black heart like a coal. And who knows? Maybe someday, after the old bat either resigns or drops dead, I can visit ASU without fear of arrest, and see my brick for myself. That will be my new dream.
(emphasis added)
Ah. He planned to spend the money he did have ... on a
brick. Then, he doesn't even bother to ask his fans to cover the cost, but
implies asking them.
Yeah, um ... You know, there is an upside to reading Jon's blogs. There is . I found at least one today. The above quote came from a blog where he realized (apparently briefly) that he had to give up his idea of going back to ASU. And then:
It is a dream which has kept me afloat through some rough times--the frequent beatings my brother gave me, or the nights I lay awake crying while he raged and bellowed and punched holes in the walls and hurled my mom's porcelain figurines across the room while having one of his tantrums, or all the times I went hungry because he'd gobbled up all the food in the fridge and stolen my petty cash so I couldn't go out and buy a sandwich at one of the take-out places.
Jon Sweet, hungry and in tears.
Good.
GOOD.
