Ordinary people also went nuts due to the 1980 Olympia. Think about it, it was 40 years ago and (some) people still care about it. Like on getbig.
Arnold was and is special. His whole life story is amazing. BUT when he gives these "willpower" lectures does he not know you can't really change your personality? We aren't a blank page book when we are born. Even today when friends complain about another person I ask, "is he going to change?"
I thought Mentzer was amazing as a kid, how he went against the grain but even then I knew he was missing something by advocating once every 2 weeks training. Or that eating an apple was enough to add another pounbd of muscle, it something like that, can't remember the exact details.
Dorian said what went wrong with him after his career. Clinical depression. He turned to drugs like so many do, like I myself have done. But these psychedelics have a tendency to turn out people a certain way. There's a theory they were banned because people went all anti-war due to this class of drugs. Maybe there is something to it. We have a couple of people on here who changed due to psychedelics. If stimulants had stayed almost over the counter like they were things might have turned out different in society in some aspects. Perhaps radically different.
