no one has commented it yet but the notion that great and intelligent men are necessarily bad, flawed, and/or dangerous seems like an important insight into these people’s worldview
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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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To them we are still in a zero-sum world where weakness is death. zero-sum lizard brain is going to be the death of us.
Am I bad? Yes
Is that good? Also yes