“Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without insisting upon a Great Man interpretation that actual historians rejected ages ago?”
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Brian Beutler
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
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However I can think of several instances where a Great Moron did monumentally stupid stuff that wiped out centuries of progress, does that count?
(Why is it always Stanford?)
More nastier certainly, more greedy absolutely…
But Nate is a pathological fraud.
And he knows it.
Lickspittle -a person who behaves obsequiously to those in power.
Obsequious -obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
Next, he'll say global warming is because of the sun, something all those climate scientists never thought of, and maybe we should be infected with weakened viruses instead of being vaccinated.
Saved me lots of time and nerves.
Everyone else on the planet: "You massive, massive doofus."
Woke: Giant Douche interpretation of history
Like he didn’t even try to Pareto Principle peeps