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Comment by t43562

5 hours ago

I wish he hadn't said that ! :-)

He has said a lot f things I agree with, and also some stuff that seems intellectually and morally bananas; particularly around gender and sexuality. There was a point something shifted and he took, imo, a darker turn. Maybe it was his wife's illness, his own addiction challenges, or perhaps he was a victim of his own success and lost too much humility.

Probably a combination of those plus factors we aren't privy to.

I don't really know how to take the measure of a man and probably I'm not qualified to. I don't think he was evil though. People are complicated and not at all black and white.

  • Addiction, fame, loss, he was early on the anti-woke stuff, which became a major cultural flashpoint, money.

    Believe it or not, he was a pretty good academic at one point.