I don't share this for the "LOLs", this being the now-deleted tweet of an unwell man.
I share this for the Great Big Cultural Sad of our discourse having been driven in recent years by people who never had the chops for anything more than "thought-leading" by playing into fear and hatred.
How do we come back from an era of "public intellectual" grifters? How do we recenter dialogue that encourages better critical thinking, knowledge exchange, and democratic practices?
And can we do it online?
@MLClark: It's strange how many people have not seemed to notice his rather pronounced departure from reality and into delusion. A very seriously marked self-aggrandizing and self-absorbed near-messianic delusion, I might add. Sadly but unsurprisingly, it's a fairly common and always very public but somehow overlooked behavioral slide.
his descent follows the Jungian analysis of having succumbed to one of the key dangers of investigating the unconscious. it's sad really. i started watching him way back when he was a respected prof. his analyses of mythology were very insightful. it's really a tragedy what's become of him. like golem from hobbit 😔