The struggle to maintain a grounded perspective, through the Trump era, through the pandemic, has been too much for most people. I still think Brand's heart is

The struggle to maintain a grounded perspective, through the Trump era, through the pandemic, has been too much for most people. I still think Brand's heart is in the right place… probably. Fisher stayed true to the end, but I have to wonder if that's only because he took his life in January 2017. It's hard to think of social/political commentators who haven't succumbed, to some extent, to the brain-melting effects of the last several years. (Maybe Žižek? He's no more or less heterodox today than he was a decade ago.)