John McQuaid on Nostr: To take Kurt Andersen's argument step further, possible these guys are actually see ...
To take Kurt Andersen's argument step further, possible these guys are actually see themselves as akin to fictional characters (not Andersen's satirical buffoons, of course, but heroes that they wildly misinterpret like Russell Crowe's Maximus in Gladiator or Hari Seldon or Arthur Dent) – and are acting out some narrative in their heads in which they triumph over forces of evil arrayed against them
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