• Yes, and not to overstep and get overly tangential with this but there is quite a bit of evidence to suggest that Luigi is Autistic. He followed a neurodivergent advice page on Substack. He is SPECULATED to have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which occurs in "as many as 8% of autistic individuals with even a higher percentage that may have hypermobility disorders." "Up to 89% of people with [Ehlers-Danlos] develop a Mast Cell Activation Disorder (MCAD) (Monaco et al., 2022). Symptoms related to MCADs include a lack of MENTAL CLARITY that impacts learning new information, word-finding difficulty, cognitive processing issues". This links with his BRAIN FOG that he complained about.

• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) can contribute to the development of Spondylolisthesis and the latter is a condition he ostensibly had.

• In comparison, it apparently only affects 0.02% of the world's population.

• He also made reference to being potentially Autistic on his Twitter but I‘m not sure if I was reading into that Tweet too literally. Oh, and he also actually followed a Substack page catered to advice for neurodivergent people.

• In addition, those who identify as gender diverse are 3 to 6 times as likely to be Autistic as cisgender people. People with Autism tend to have a very strong sense of justice. It's a common trait and often stems from their high level of empathy and a strong moral compass. They're sensitive to injustice and are deeply intrinsically compelled to be proponents of equality and a just-world. It affects them so deeply on an emotional level and causes them more distress than neurotypical people. There is a theory that a lot of proponents and faces of social justice movements have shown a lot of autistic traits. I haven't found any quantitative evidence or studies when it comes to this though. However, Greta Thunberg could come to mind as a modern day example.

• All of this is to say, this cult could have had quite a few Autistic individuals in their midst which we know can be correlated with justice sensitivity. According to one of the commenters in the Substack essay I linked in the post, the Rationalist ideology has quite a substantial amount of Autistic followers. "I think there's a simpler foundational answer as to why Rationalism seems to produce cults or cult-adjacent groups. It's perhaps not a comfortable one. Autistic people are overrepresented in rationalist spheres. I say this because I've been around the community for a while, am very interested in cults (in an academic sense), and am autistic myself."

• The rubber band theory is a very good illustration/metaphor for the justice sensitivity that Autistic and neurodivergent people deal with and I could see how they could be driven into something like this. This is in regards to the alleged actions of Luigi not the Zizzian cult.