Broadly, I think, what happens is that "wisdom can't be taught." New ideas can get thrown at you and it can be fun and exciting to play with them, but sometimes

Broadly, I think, what happens is that "wisdom can't be taught." New ideas can get thrown at you and it can be fun and exciting to play with them, but sometimes even the people putting them out there can't really handle it. I don't know about Watt's story, but that's 100% Jordan Peterson; the epitome of "smart but not at all wise." (I think e.g. Slavoj Zizek and Nassim Nicholas Taleb have correctly figured figured this out in their own ways. I think the former knows how much he's "trolling" sometimes)