mcnulty
Norm Smith Medallist
- Sep 18, 2019
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I kind of see the same with Musk. People react to the things you say, some positively and some negatively, and over time you harden your position. All of which is amplified by social media. You tend to count on the support you get and lump reasonable criticism in with the inevitable attacks. Becomes us v them, and you become more extreme. Or if not extreme, more rigid in your thinking.JP was good until he got really famous. The haters really got to him, and the acolytes got to him too, in a different way. He always said that anyone of reasonable intellect that had anything interesting to say would necessarily miss the mark at times, otherwise they would not be interesting. Problem is I think he gave himself way too much leeway in this regard when he got popular, he got positive feedback for some of his less rigorously thought out stuff, and he slowly but surely lost the plot.
And then somewhere along the way instead of thinking critically he entered that most tiresome battle that is the modern culture wars.
Think we see this all around us with the advent of social media. s**t think we see it on BF.