Personally I'm not even sure about that. I think a lot of eccentrics might be consciously "committing to a bit"https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/824788062391717888 …
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He wouldn't be the first desperately poor person in a big city to turn to a certain kind of performance art as a coping strategy
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I've read a couple of his authenticated "proclamations", they seem fairly lucid and at times to be "in on the joke"
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Like formally "dissolving Congress" for being a waste of the people's money seems like it's straight up satire, not delusion
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I mean, as an emotional coping strategy and a way of making a living it clearly actually did work
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People playing along with the bit accepted "Norton dollars" who would've sneered at a poor person "begging for handouts"
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Neil Gaiman's story about Emperor Norton in Sandman hinged on him specifically not being mentally ill. (fwiw.)
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