What we're seeing here is a full-on ideological war between two groups of elites. The predominant ideology that has been the narrative of the elite class for decades: that humanity is a blight on all of existence and that fewer humans is a good thing, is being vigorously challenged by someone with a significant amount of cultural influence.
It doesn't matter whether this is contradicted by any of his other expressed beliefs. What's important is that he said it and people will listen to him who otherwise would have immediately dismissed that statement if it had come from voices on the dissident right, or even from someone like Trump. That matters.
On this particular issue, he happens to be right.
What we're seeing here is a full-on ideological war between two groups of elites. The predominant ideology that has been the narrative of the elite class for decades: that humanity is a blight on all of existence and that fewer humans is a good thing, is being vigorously challenged by someone with a significant amount of cultural influence.
It doesn't matter whether this is contradicted by any of his other expressed beliefs. What's important is that he said it and people will listen to him who otherwise would have immediately dismissed that statement if it had come from voices on the dissident right, or even from someone like Trump. That matters.