Christory101
kiwifarms.net
I know people on this board think highly of Robert Chandler, saying he was kind, knowledgable, and a man who despite his limitations tried to do what was best for Chris chan.
Yet is that a justifiable belief? Not to speak ill of the dead, but I believe he may not have been all he was cracked up to be.
It seems often that he treated Chrisian as a problem to be ignored unless he had to be. He never once checked in with Chris or asked him what he was even doing on the internet, yelling and hollering. He only did that if Chris' videos created a problem for him, namely the health department of Greene County seizing his house.
I know he was often courteous and friendly with the trolls calling 14BLC, yet that itself is not evidence of kindness. Many elderly people are lonely and enjoy speaking to other people, particularly teenagers and young adults. Im sure this is even more so if said elder is living with a chris chan and a snorlax!
Does anyone else agree with me?
Yet is that a justifiable belief? Not to speak ill of the dead, but I believe he may not have been all he was cracked up to be.
It seems often that he treated Chrisian as a problem to be ignored unless he had to be. He never once checked in with Chris or asked him what he was even doing on the internet, yelling and hollering. He only did that if Chris' videos created a problem for him, namely the health department of Greene County seizing his house.
I know he was often courteous and friendly with the trolls calling 14BLC, yet that itself is not evidence of kindness. Many elderly people are lonely and enjoy speaking to other people, particularly teenagers and young adults. Im sure this is even more so if said elder is living with a chris chan and a snorlax!
Does anyone else agree with me?
, that old man had decades of wisdom and knowledge to draw upon. Bob was a very intelligent man, even holding patents. I think he tried and tried, struggled valiantly to make Chris noble, but eventually he saw the writing on the wall, that there was only so much he could do. He could keep going and persisting, but Chris obviously was never going to mature into the son Robert Chandler deserved. So he allowed him to inhabit a fantasy wold and be all kinds of bizarre. Bob knew that to try and challenge Chris would be useless; that he struggled to hold even a job at Wendy's. That said, I still view Chris is a fully functional adult man, who should not be cut much slack. With the right motivation, he could be more normal, but that motivation would most likely have to come from within Chris, and there was nothing Bob could do to get him going, not at his advanced age. I do think a parent could have motivated Chris in his formative years - to be more normal and lead a more fulfilling life - but it would need to be a truly extraordinary parent, which is few and far in between. Bob was probably a great parent, but great isn't enough when you are dealing with someone the caliber of CWC.
