I think you find some of these people “getting political” because they’ve been cornered and/or burned by media/government/politicians/ngos, badly. It destroys a

I think you find some of these people “getting political” because they’ve been cornered and/or burned by media/government/politicians/ngos, badly. It destroys a lot of illusions they have/had about establishment politicians/media. Once you see through it - the cynical opportunism, hypocrisy, double standards, and assumption of power, abuse of groupthink - it’s not something you unsee. And the multi-modal pressure campaigns of that cabal to try and force compliance cause a certain personality type to push back harder rather than bend over (especially if they have fu money). There’s a list of people in the public sphere like this in the last ten years - Musk, Rogan, Brett Weinstein, Peterson, and I dare say Trump was one too. Contrarian voices. Love ‘em or hate ‘em because reasons, but I think their individualist, critical, and contrarian voices are a necessary feature rather than a bug. Edit: that’s not to say you need to treat these people as heroes - I’m reflexively suspicious of that because human nature will always be what it is, but I applaud their ability to give the finger to convention, that’s all.