Did they not participate in any form of Subgenius activity, consume any form of Subgenius art? Did they not listen to the Hour of Slack?

Religiously. He spray painted a big Dobbsheads on his skateboard; I think he even got a tattoo?

I may have been mocking Dobbs. Just a little. We'd been best friends since middle school; I knew how to get on his nerves.

And he had a lot of anti-establishment anger. My rebellion was Discordianism; he hooked onto TCotS. However, I was raised Christian by a fervent father - 4x church every week - and I was inoculated against taking religion seriously. He was raised by hippies, so Subgenius was his first church, and I think he just fell into the cult mindset.

It's fine; there are worse religions to get culty about; he just lost his perspective about TCotS, I think.