Tucker Carlson once said it was hard to see his flaws after success because “everything about the experience reinforces what you’re doing.”[1] Fame can be a fu

Tucker Carlson once said it was hard to see his flaws after success because “everything about the experience reinforces what you’re doing.”[1] Fame can be a funny teacher in that respect. The feedback you’d normally get after making a mistake can be smothered by all the praise and money that still pours in, irrespective of the decisions you make (at least in the short-term). After a while, you can end up being this cartoonish version of yourself, trained by the preferences of other people and what they like and don’t like about you. I think it’s how celebrities end up in situations where they’re blindly unaware of things that seem obvious to most people or act out in strange ways (like Bill Cosby making a distasteful Fat Albert joke before he goes to court, Kevin Spacey making videos in the persona of Francis Underwood, Britney Spears shaving off her hair, Dave Chapelle’s self-induced “exile”, OJ Simpson posting Twitter videos, and of course Kanye West’s song “I Love Kanye” where he sardonically talks about all the different things people want from him). [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/12/tucker-carlson-fox-news/603595/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/12/tucker-...