"You've all been selected for this mission because you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster and Daniel Day-Lewis! Welcome to Operation MindFuck!"
I'de have to say if he did that deliberatly it must have been his fathers fault, or maybe your mother, you never know til you get to know them.
If you go by Freudian psychology, my thought wold be he's simply going insane.