But I think about it sometimes and wonder what it'd take for us to accept some dude as a leader
Oh I think we've already seen that.
One of the things I'm very glad about for having played EVE Online is that it taught me a lot about how cults of personality work. TheMittani. Milo. Trump. Jordan Peterson. John Brown. Hitler. Jesus. Moses.
Its all a lot like television wrestling. People want to believe in someone. They want that someone to stand up and fight back.
They don't have to be virtuous. They don't even have to be genuine.
They just can't be proven to be ingenuine... while they're alive. And that's the tricky part.
If Jordan Peterson had come out of his drug coma and said he'd encountered god, had a revelation and wrote new scripture, whether he actually believes he did or doesn't, I believe he could have become the largest North American religion over night.
The trouble is, it's beneath him and people like him to do it.
And that's the real problem. That the smartest people are not willing to bear a little guilt over lying for the greater good. They'll lie about all kinds of things for themselves, but the libertarian intellectual sees the SJW's mind games, playing religious prophet, as beneath them. Enlightenment fanatics who haven't gotten the memo that the SJWs are a few pages ahead of them... that social justice is the destination of the enlightenment.
Oh I think we've already seen that.
One of the things I'm very glad about for having played EVE Online is that it taught me a lot about how cults of personality work. TheMittani. Milo. Trump. Jordan Peterson. John Brown. Hitler. Jesus. Moses.
Its all a lot like television wrestling. People want to believe in someone. They want that someone to stand up and fight back.
They don't have to be virtuous. They don't even have to be genuine.
They just can't be proven to be ingenuine... while they're alive. And that's the tricky part.
If Jordan Peterson had come out of his drug coma and said he'd encountered god, had a revelation and wrote new scripture, whether he actually believes he did or doesn't, I believe he could have become the largest North American religion over night.
The trouble is, it's beneath him and people like him to do it.
And that's the real problem. That the smartest people are not willing to bear a little guilt over lying for the greater good. They'll lie about all kinds of things for themselves, but the libertarian intellectual sees the SJW's mind games, playing religious prophet, as beneath them. Enlightenment fanatics who haven't gotten the memo that the SJWs are a few pages ahead of them... that social justice is the destination of the enlightenment.