Several years ago, something exciting happened in the world of Western thought. A group of thinkers and commentators became popular in various forms of media, seemingly all at once. And, more so than I’ve otherwise seen in my adult life, it made critical thinking a mainstream phenomenon. It made philosophy a mainstream hobby.
They did not change. They had always been cartoonish characters looking dawn on everybody else and treating stuff they were saying as the one and only "truth". That may impress teenagers, incels and other groups that think they're right and everybody else is a problem (kids-parents, incels-women, boomers-young people, etc) but not any well-read and well-educated person. You just grew up, that's why you are able to tell that they're full of bs.
And Musk is nothing more than a product of a great PR team. The moment he fired them was the moment the world saw his true face. He did not change, he was always like that - another rich kid with inflated ego.
Unfortunately, people these days think that the louder one shouts, the more right he/she is.
Great post! Agree with a lot of your points. Could it be in part that these people are really interesting to you initially because they are new and different? Once the novelty of their views wear off, they become uninteresting to you? Then you look for new perspectives that are once again new and different to you?
They did not change. They had always been cartoonish characters looking dawn on everybody else and treating stuff they were saying as the one and only "truth". That may impress teenagers, incels and other groups that think they're right and everybody else is a problem (kids-parents, incels-women, boomers-young people, etc) but not any well-read and well-educated person. You just grew up, that's why you are able to tell that they're full of bs.
And Musk is nothing more than a product of a great PR team. The moment he fired them was the moment the world saw his true face. He did not change, he was always like that - another rich kid with inflated ego.
Unfortunately, people these days think that the louder one shouts, the more right he/she is.
Great post! Agree with a lot of your points. Could it be in part that these people are really interesting to you initially because they are new and different? Once the novelty of their views wear off, they become uninteresting to you? Then you look for new perspectives that are once again new and different to you?