The casual rise of eugenics and breathless, credulous declarations of innate superiority of some people over others even among self-styled centrists is one of the creepiest and most alarming trends I’ve seen in a while.
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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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Have to rebuild a reality to workaround the fact that you were so spectacularly duped.
https://bsky.app/profile/harveyjkaye.bsky.social/post/3litvstwkcc22
In Trump 1 early days, I thought "at least we now know which monsters were hiding under the bed and can act." But we didn't.
It would be so nice to believe they are just very stupid instead of still kinda stupid AND also evil.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610326/doppelganger/
We are just seeing it come back out of the shadows.