> I guess it seems completely unremarkable that someone would have useful things to say in one regard while having less useful things to say in another. No, he

> I guess it seems completely unremarkable that someone would have useful things to say in one regard while having less useful things to say in another. No, he has a long established pattern of attracting a crowd by talking about basic self-help and then sneak in politically charged ideas like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th... , "people are lobsters", and plenty of sexism. > I view him in the context of a university professor who wrote a book and has some lectures online, not in the context of the mega-celebrity he became. You can't pick and choose the context: a person is responsible for they say in public. Besides, even as a university professor a person is responsible for speaking honestly. > being catapulted to fame ... muddy their message quite a bit. No, he was playing the same tricks since the beginning. There are a lot of old videos on youtube.