Gregory's Server@rodhilton I suspect that he has spent a long time signaling to intellectually insecure people who hang their self worth on the notion of their own intelligence that he’s officially smart because he understands the convoluted rationalist stuff. Who’s gonna risk revealing themselves as a faker who just wasn’t smart enough to get it by asking questions?
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@iteration523 @rodhilton Pretty much, except I feel pretty comfortable assuming that Jordan Peterson is fully possessed of the capacity to know that he’s grifting, and Trump seems to take pride in it. I don’t know if this is an accurate read on it or a product of my own assumptions, but Elon Musk very much struck me as a victim of it at first, though he has absolutely become a perpetrator regardless of whether that’s true. @iteration523 @rodhilton None of these guys are supervillains any more than they’re superheroes. That’s giving them way too much credit. They’re just people. |
@robotrecall @rodhilton In essence, the same grift JBP is doing. Or Trump, for that matter. Only he does it with cars, not with self-improvement books or politics.