There's a page in the glass bead game where Hermann Hesse writes something about culture obsessed with what boxers think about politics and what scientists thin

There's a page in the glass bead game where Hermann Hesse writes something about culture obsessed with what boxers think about politics and what scientists think about soap opera. (My words, it's a dim memory) 1943. I think thats Prescient. Why we think Rogan or Musk would know, why "true" has any validity beyond opinion is beyond me. I dislike the word "traitor" but when people in positions of power construct fantasies of the lived world between them which explode into the commons, I think they're traitors to everything I hold dear. They're destroying society for shits and giggles, or money. At least revolutionaries thought they'd build a better world, I can't even imagine what world these two think they're building.