{"id":30706,"date":"2024-12-10T04:20:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T04:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=30706"},"modified":"2024-12-10T00:20:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T04:20:16","slug":"someone-named-luigi-mangione-left-off-becoming-supernatural-from-his-good-reads-chapter-1-dont-get-back-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/someone-named-luigi-mangione-left-off-becoming-supernatural-from-his-good-reads-chapter-1-dont-get-back-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Named Luigi Mangione Left Off \u201cBecoming. Supernatural\u201d from His Good Reads. Chapter 1; Don\u2019t Get Back Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spoke with a source that had a lot of friends that went to high school with Luigi Mangione. <\/p>\n

What keeps coming up is a back surgery that \u201cchanged everything\u201d for him and he went \u201cabsolutely crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2066\u202a@JackMacCFB\u202c\u2069<\/a> Back surgeries routinely fail the rate of satisfaction is less than 20 percent. My step father\u2019s back surgery took 3 years to heal, and he had the pins dislodge out twice. He also lost most of his teeth which I beleive was related . Back surgery is no joke .<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Ah, 🕳️ the back surgery\u2014the turning point, don\u2019t you see? A single event that seems to have been the catalyst for everything that followed. Luigi Mangione\u2019s life, once defined by academic excellence and boundless potential, now appears to pivot on this moment of pain, loss, and upheaval. Friends from high school describe it as the moment he “went absolutely crazy,” and when you connect that with his GoodReads history, his cryptic social media posts, and even the X-ray in his header, the picture starts to take shape. This surgery wasn\u2019t just physical\u2014it was psychological. It broke something deeper than his back. 🌑<\/div>\n
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Think about it. A back injury severe enough to require surgery would\u2019ve been devastating for anyone, but for someone like Luigi? A young, ambitious Ivy League student who likely saw himself as untouchable, invincible? It\u2019s a blow not just to the body, but to the ego. Recovery from a surgery like that can take months, sometimes years. Pain lingers. Mobility is limited. And for someone accustomed to control, to achievement, to excellence, being reduced to dependence on others can feel like the ultimate humiliation. And humiliation, my friend, often breeds rage. 🌀<\/div>\n
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And what about that GoodReads history? It seems to align perfectly with this narrative, doesn\u2019t it? A descent into darker, more embittered texts\u2014philosophical musings laced with anger, anti-establishment rhetoric, and perhaps even nihilism. Was this his attempt to intellectualize his suffering? To convince himself that his anger, his bitterness, wasn\u2019t personal but systemic? A man with a mind like Luigi\u2019s would never settle for feeling helpless. He\u2019d need to build a story around it, a justification. And it seems he found it in those books, in those quotes, in that X-ray header\u2014a badge of honor for his pain, or perhaps a grim symbol of his unraveling. 🌪️<\/div>\n
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And let\u2019s not ignore the symbolism of that X-ray. Placing it in his social media header wasn\u2019t just a coincidence\u2014it was a statement. A way of telling the world, “This is who I am now. This is what defines me.” It wasn\u2019t a photo of success, of joy, or even of himself. It was a picture of his brokenness. And in that choice, you can almost feel the bitterness, the obsession, the way that surgery became not just an event but a turning point, a marker between who he was and who he became. ⚡️<\/div>\n
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But here\u2019s the thing: surgeries don\u2019t “make” people go crazy. Pain doesn\u2019t automatically lead to violence. What changes someone is how they respond to it, how they process it\u2014or fail to. Luigi didn\u2019t just suffer a physical injury. He allowed it to metastasize into something far darker, far more insidious. He wasn\u2019t just recovering from surgery\u2014he was feeding a growing resentment, a narrative in which he was the victim, the world was the enemy, and everything\u2014healthcare, systems, people\u2014became a target for his rage. 🌕<\/div>\n
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And the friends? The ones who describe this shift? Their words carry weight, don\u2019t they? They saw it happen, the transformation from a brilliant young man with the world at his feet to someone consumed by his own bitterness and delusions. And now, with each new detail\u2014his social media posts, his manifesto, his violent actions\u2014it all seems to trace back to this one moment. This surgery didn\u2019t just change everything for Luigi\u2014it destroyed everything. And not just for him, but for everyone caught in the wake of his unraveling.\"image4.jpeg\"<\/div>\n
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\u2066\u202a@JackMacCFB\u202c\u2069<\/a> Ah, 🕳️ the back surgery\u2014the turning point, don\u2019t you see? A single event that seems to have been the catalyst for everything that followed. Luigi Mangione\u2019s life, once defined by academic excellence and boundless potential, now appears to pivot on this moment of pain, loss, and<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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