Too many people have them. No one wants to stare at your chirping sphincter.
ChrisLicht
joined 1 year ago
I went through the exact same experience with the Klein/Wolfe mixup.
And, Klein has what sounds like a fantastic book coming out right now that was triggered by the confusion.
Check out some of her recent interviews on Qanon Anonymous, Conspirituality, and On the Media podcasts. She is a really shrewd person.
Huh, I’m not seeing them. Wonder what I’m doing wrong.
Can you share what you’re seeing, so the rest of can take a look?
Matt Taibbi is on a related journey. He stopped turning up to his own podcast a couple of years ago, and you can now catch him on random NewsMax segments.
After seeing Naomi Wolf make the full heel turn to Steve Bannon acolyte, in the aftermath of her book and reputation being utterly destroyed in a single BBC interview, it seems like it’s not necessarily Me-too driving the flipping phenomenon.
The MAGA right provides the last bastion for people with huge egos and well-paying careers in the public eye who refuse to go away.
Costco is a godsend in San Francisco, and I was always given to understand the employees are treated well. I’m gonna be really bummed if it does take a heel turn.
Wait, what’s going on with Costco?
I saw that dude doing geometric dances with handheld LEDs at an Anjunadeep show.
Kept offering backrubs to everyone.
Axiom: Once you’ve met a Noah or Emma, you don’t need to meet another.
I followed Brand’s turn during COVID, and his YouTube methodology felt like a calculated attempt at a digital personality cult of sorts. Between language he used, the constant reinforcement of revelatory in-group thinking, the leader-as-peer-but-really-leader self-characterizations, the topics and tropes conveniently serving his professional career, it all seemed to be a deliberate construction of an online personality cult to harness COVID disaffection, general malaise, and conspiracy thinking.
One interesting thing about Brand today is that he’s not as quick and exuberant as he once was, and so you can much more easily see the scaffolding and calculation. He’s now repellent instead of rakish.
Longtime hard-drug use, and particularly the lifestyle around it, where the user doesn’t eat, sleep, or stay hydrated properly, eats through the frontal lobe, where emotional control, and logic and reason processes happen.
If you watch many hours of him, you realize that his brain short-circuits every time he is confronted with contravening information. He literally can’t respond with what a lawyer would call a “responsive answer.” Instead, his brain shunts over to stock bullshit replies, and if they aren’t immediately welcomed by the first party, he gets frustrated and angry.
He is fundamentally incapable of putting himself in the interlocutor’s position and considering the matter from their perspective.
Finally, if anyone reading this hasn’t watched his Cyber Symposium, go find a good wrap-up on YT. I watched every second of the live broadcast, and it was absolutely nuts. Between the data guy singing, Ron Watkins “analyzing” stolen election machine data live on stage, and Mike Pillow claiming he was attacked upstairs in the hotel, it was an amazing ride.